70+ dead and over a thousand Injured after Football match in Egypt

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16845841

Opposing team and fans still under siege apparently.

Jon Leyne BBC News, Cairo

Football fans in Egypt can be violent, and certainly there is a bitter rivalry between these two teams.

The al-Ahly fans, known as Ultras, have a particular reputation for violence.

But lately they have been at the forefront of clashes with the police.

On the social media, there has been speculation - and I hasten to add there is no evidence - that the security forces may have had an interest in taking on al-Ahly supporters.

Certainly riot police did not seem to be very effective, they were standing around, and maybe there simply were not enough there.

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16161259

hard to make out what's happening in the video posted on the other thread, but this stuff is so sickening/frightening

the riot police just let the 'fans' chase after the teams players. They did fuck all.

there weren't very many of them there, from what i could see

the footage on sky news is scary. Apparently when the other games were postponed , a stadium in Cairo has been set on fire by fans angry at it being postponed.

They've been toning security down because of what security forces were like under Mubarak. Dan posted a thing on the other thread said this sort of thing has been brewing for a while.

http://mideastsoccer.blogspot.com/2011/12/egyptian-battle-lines-harden-as-ultras.html

At least they haven't sacked half the city, yet.

That's fascinating. I had no idea about demes.

this is horrific and i can only hope for the injured to get better and for the families of the victims.

it fucking sucks man, football has a proven history of bringing people together. christmas 1914 and all that, where it didn't matter about the politics, they were just dudes who wanted to kick a ball around. shit like this still happening, whether being on this ludicrous scale or just some ultras in italy stabbing one dude who walked through the wrong part of the stadium needs to fucking stop.

just read a tweet that said these two sides have mutual fan hatred going back to the suez crisis

al-ahly, whose ultras white knights were a large part of the revolution, getting attacked seems a bit, fishy, if you ask me. orchestration, collusion, or just inaction by the security forces for this to happen ive got to guess.

also the death toll is too high to be just people scrapping in an impromptu riot. security forces involved or some sort of crush has to have occurred.

there were knives involved

yeah, i know? scottish cup final 1980 ended in a riot, folk were using broken bottles and bricks on one another, no cunt died.

http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/the-youth-of-the-egyptian-revolution

I first saw the Ultras White Knights last April, in Tahrir Square, during a Friday demonstration against the SCAF. Five thousand kids holding a twenty-foot Egyptian flag came marching from a side street into the Square. At the head of the group was a kid of 15 with a drum leading a chant directed towards the police: “That’s right motherfuckers, we haven’t forgotten Tahrir, motherfuckers. And we’ll fuck you up again, motherfuckers.”

fair enough jim. Just thought it was bit more than scrapping

the notion that the police allowed this to happen seems plausible given the ahly ultras attitudes toward them in the past

74 dead now

yeah this death toll makes no sense for a sports brawl, that's like a line people up and shoot them number

Al Ahly had a perfect season in 2005. This one, not so much.

More details:
http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-army-police-blamed-deadly-soccer-riot-082357959.html

Exit-corridor crush sounds like that German rave crush a year or two ago, but with fighting gangs thrown in.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/9057194/Egypt-football-riots-three-Egypt-internationals-retire-after-mass-deaths-in-stadium-riot.html

the Egyptian FA has also been dissolved

former usa soccer coach Bob Bradley, now coaching the Egyptian national team, speaks on the tragedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pJevzQSzRBI

hosni mubarak was the best
we'll never see days like those again

(c) some random egyptian person on tv