England score first points on the board for hooligan arrests

We just love it don't we?</p>

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2217743,00.html</p>

 

Post-hooliganism press conference

"Well, it's important to hit the ground running and I think we've got off to a good early start. Obviously the boys were over the moon to start so strongly and get some arrests on the board in the first few minutes. We'll meet stronger competition than the Taxi Drivers if we progress past the group stages but you can only beat up what's put in front of you."

 

Never believe a word of the press regarding hooliganism. Last time round they were offering money to fans to get drunk and cause fights. The tabloid press are scum much lower than hooligans.

 

Nice to see they are taking this tournament seriously...

Kwality statement Burgundy

 

Thanks for that.

Ah, The Times, bastion of tabloid journalism.

 

Is getting pissed and trashing a taxi football hooliganism? If you shagged a corpse in the back of a van on the way to a match could it be classed as football necrophilia?

Sorry.

 

But it doesn't actually mention "football hooliganism" - just calls them hooligans, which they are.

 

Read the first paragraph a few times.

 

"The Times, bastion of tabloid journalism."

What do you mean?

 

RE: "The Times, bastion of tabloid journalism."

He slags off the tabloids because of an article in The Times. Didn't see the connection.

 

OK I'm being deliberately pedantic here

 

RE: "The Times, bastion of tabloid journalism."

Don't tell me the TImes aren't averse to a bit of tabloid or chequebook journalism. Who owns them?

 

RE: "The Times, bastion of tabloid journalism."

Shot in the dark like but maybe the connection is that the Times is a tabloid newspaper.

 

RE: Read the first paragraph a few times.

First par doesn't call them football hooligans. It says they committed an act of hooliganism (which they did), that they were in Germany for the world cup and that they were the first fans to be arrested.

 

Heh heh.

For once I'm lost for words.

 

RE: "The Times, bastion of tabloid journalism."

Only in format. It's classed as broadsheet in style.

 

RE: Read the first paragraph a few times.

******* hell.

 

RE: "The Times, bastion of tabloid journalism."

Don't really see that ownership comes into it. It's a fair story.

 

RE: "The Times, bastion of tabloid journalism."

Again, ******* hell

New name, same old nonsense.

 

RE: Read the first paragraph a few times.

Just what I was going to put but couldn't be arsed!