People here are obviously not aware that football hooliganism is connected to organised crime. Often main hooligan leaders also control the drug trade in an area, since it's a good training of the commanding piramide, a way to find new resortful youth and to train fighting with the police.
England has managed to take its hooligans out of the stadiums, but on the other hand it does not have so strong organised crime.
In Italy in some cases the mafia controls the whole club (like Naples).
As far as racism is concerned, Italy has a lot of problems, but on the other hand there are a lot of laws to garantee human rights that lack in some other countries (that are on the surface less racist). Refugees in Italy, even illegal refugees, can have their children go to school and have full medical cover (unlike in Holland for example). Also, there is a path to citizenship and legal immigrents can vote for local administrations of municipalities.
I don't get what goons in the seats have to do with taking sh*t. This is really coward talk. You could be the most feared mob boss in all of NY, the toughest voy in all of Williamsburg, you go up in Brooklyn/Queens thinking you run sh*t you will get killed by a 15 year old, which is exactly why organized crime stays away from a lot of black neighborhoods in the US. So by your logic, if I am walking down the street, and a couple of mob guys call me monkey and beat my azz, I'm just supposed to take it right?
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As far as Italy being racist/not racist, breh, there are good and bad people in EVERY country. I'm sure in the worst neo-Nazi stronghold in rural Germany, there would be a family to take my black azz in, if I showed I was a hard-working honest guy. This is not a knock on Italy/Italians. CACs gon CAC. Balotelli should EXPECT racism from physically inferior geeks who use the stadium to vent all their pent up frustrations. That's like being mad at a fat chick for hating a beauty queen
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