It's time for UEFA to show they aren't solely anti-English when it comes to handing out the bans from European football for the violent behaviour of fans and ban Roma.
Last night saw Middlesbrough fans stabbed in Rome ahead of tonights UEFA Cup match between the two teams and we shall await, although not with baited breath it must be said, the reaction of UEFA to this organised assault.
While English club fans have built up a huge reputation for hooliganism since the 70's, 80's and during international fixtures during the 90's, the domestic crackdown on hooligans and the average fan's tiredness at being tarred with the same brush, has led to English fans behaving far better when abroad than some of the local fans.
It's not the first time that AS Roma have been in trouble recently with the authorities due to the behaviour of their fans, indeed they were forced to play behind closed doors less than two years ago after Anders Frisk was struck by a missle thrown from the Roma crowd.
It doesn't take a leap of genius or even paranioa (As some self-loathing English people will always claim) to know that if it was an English team responsible for such actions, a heavy ban would be slapped on them.
Everything and nothing. Read it, shrug your shoulders and move on.
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