{"id":4053,"date":"2017-04-14T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:00:02","slug":"mainstream-media-prefers-to-overlook-punches-non-russian-footies-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/mainstream-media-prefers-to-overlook-punches-non-russian-footies-throw\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Media Prefers to Overlook Punches Non-Russian Footies Throw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of\u00a0England\u2019s Leicester City football club chanting \u201cGibraltar is ours!\u201d clashed with\u00a0police in\u00a0the Spanish capital ahead of\u00a0Wednesday\u2019s Champions League game against\u00a0Atletico Madrid. <a href=\"https:\/\/mundo.sputniknews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sputnik Mundo<\/a> talked with\u00a0several Spanish football experts about\u00a0the English hooligans\u2019 outrageous behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach time English fans come to\u00a0Spain we have problems. That\u2019s why the police are always out\u00a0keeping an eye on\u00a0them, but\u00a0controlling such big crowds is almost a mission impossible,\u201d football analyst Vicente Corral said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the English footie fans \u201cget drunk\u201d and \u201cstart destroying furniture at\u00a0bars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill, they are not the only ones who cause trouble in\u00a0Spain, because numerous \u2018ultras\u2019 from\u00a0Central Europe often go berserk too,\u201d Corral told Sputnik Mundo.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid aficionado Guillermo Rocafort described the English fans as \u201cvandals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"marker-quote1\">\u201cThey should be banned from\u00a0coming to\u00a0European countries because their sole purpose is to\u00a0run amock in\u00a0the streets,\u201d\u00a0 Rocafort complained.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cBritish policies and British media are turning their people into\u00a0fanatics through\u00a0Brexit and other issues, such as\u00a0Gibraltar,\u201d and that the British authorities should pay for\u00a0the damage caused by\u00a0their citizens abroad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bALxiax0m5M\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He also proposed boycotting or otherwise isolating British football clubs as\u00a0punishment for\u00a0their rowdy fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK government turns a blind eye to\u00a0the vandalist behavior of\u00a0the British football hooligans. Britain is exporting violence\u00a0 to\u00a0Europe,\u201d Rocafort emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>He said that mainstream media was downplaying the English fans\u2019 violent behavior in\u00a0Madrid, adding that \u201cthere exist some clear-cut instructions to\u00a0the media to\u00a0badmouth Russia,\u201d even though\u00a0 Russian fans don\u2019t happen to\u00a0be the biggest threat to\u00a0public order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Anglo-Saxons are great experts when it comes to\u00a0propaganda (\u2026) They make peope believe the lies they are telling because they control the media,\u201d Rocafort continued.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that the riots in\u00a0Madrid were largely ignored by\u00a0mainstream media because \u201cthey want to\u00a0downplay real violence and sensationalize what doesn\u2019t really exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"marker-quote1\">\u201c[During the Euro-2017 in\u00a0France] they blamed Russians, while it is Britain, which is the root of\u00a0all this evil,\u201d Guillermo Rocafort emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>His words rang particularly true after\u00a0an <a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/sport\/20120503\/173195983.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UEFA\u00a0 Europa League <\/a>game between\u00a0France\u2019s Lyon and Turkish Besiktas was delayed on\u00a0Thursday as\u00a0Besiktas fans started throwing flares at\u00a0the Lyon supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, a bunch of\u00a0French hooligans armed with\u00a0weapons stormed into\u00a0the away end of\u00a0the stadium scuffling with\u00a0the visiting support.<\/p>\n<p>Besiktas fans had earlier clashed with\u00a0police and rival French supporters ahead of\u00a0the game.<\/p>\n<p>In what many saw as\u00a0an attempt to\u00a0shift the blame away from\u00a0home turf, the <a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/sport\/20170301\/1051166596.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC documentary \u201cRussia\u2019s Hooligan Army,\u201d<\/a> aired in\u00a0February, alleged, using made-up \u201cfacts,\u201d\u00a0 that Russian football fans plan to\u00a0stir up\u00a0trouble for\u00a0English supporters\u00a0 during\u00a0the 2018 World Cup in\u00a0Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Well, judging from\u00a0the most recent fan violence in\u00a0Madrid, maybe the BBC should think about\u00a0a follow-up to\u00a0its February film and call it \u201cEngland\u2019s Hooligan Army\u201d?<\/p>\n<div class=\"b-inject m-inject-free\">\u00a9<br \/>\nPhoto: Vitaly PodvitskiTunnel Vision<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Never miss a story again\u00a0\u2014 sign up\u00a0to our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/sputniknewsint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telegram channel<\/a> and we&#8217;ll keep you up\u00a0to speed! <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/201704141052637768-football-fans-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sputnik News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport \u2013 Sport News <a title=\"Football\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/football\/\">Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of\u00a0England\u2019s Leicester City football club chanting \u201cGibraltar is ours!\u201d clashed with\u00a0police in\u00a0the Spanish capital ahead of\u00a0Wednesday\u2019s Champions League game against\u00a0Atletico Madrid. Sputnik Mundo talked with\u00a0several Spanish football experts about\u00a0the English hooligans\u2019 outrageous behavior. \u201cEach time English fans come to\u00a0Spain we have problems. That\u2019s why the police are always out\u00a0keeping an eye on\u00a0them, but\u00a0controlling such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[371,30,120,80,2460],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}