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The fan at the front of this is attending a Colombian "soccer" match, supporting his team.

He has been beaten and now stabbed to death because the colour of his rucksack was the same colour of their rival team.

How crazy!

Remember Andres Escobar, Columbian WC player killed for the own goal that sents his team home from USA 94

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/other_news/newsid_1842000/1842805.stm

Rediculous Columbians.

Here's the video for those who dare  :shock:

http://www.tooshocking.com/index.php?ns=view_vid&id=651

ERm, roooooooooar-y fallon?

Lions at football matches :shock:  that's asking for trouble!

Unfortunatly i was there when Mark Smith the Plymouth Argyle fan was killed in Gladstone St, i know he died after the game but i saw the fight where he got a kicking before the game....... :(

That lion video is harsh!

That lion is well out of order. Doesn't matter what football team the bloke supported, mauling him is uncalled for.

Spencer nearly killed me two years ago when I turned up in a yellow car!!!!

Thats terrible,poor bloke :(

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I was there too, sitting in the pub, and saw poor Mark Smith get his head kicked as he lay in the road. But he got up, and even went to the match, and didn't die until after the game. Later I rued not following the bloke who kicked him so that I could identify him, but Mark got to his feet and I got back to my pint. My everlasting shame.

I was a (useless) witness at the trial, when a whole bunch of thugs got off.

What a random bump.

19 years later.

Random bump ?!

But you are applying hindsight to something you knew was serious but not life threatening. Not your fault.

Easy for me to say, I can only imagine how you feel.

I lived in Plymouth at the time and the whole city was in uproar about it ( naturally ). Because I went to one of the grammar schools in the area there were other lads from across the city and word went around about 'a lad from Swindon that goes to Devonport High School'. I finished school one day to walk out and find about 30 thugs hanging around 'looking for the Swindon cunt so that we can even the score'. Not ashamed to say that I kept my head down, turned a corner and then ran faster than Usain Bolt could ever dream of. Their numbers dwindled over the next few days and by the end of the following week they had moved on to something else so it all went back to normal. Scary times though - especially as I was only 12 at the time.

A few were convicted under joint enterprise? Wasn’t a murder but didn’t get off.

The next away game down there was an interesting experience

Yes it was, I remember we were locked in for an hour after the match, had a police escort to the end of the park, and then left to our own devices to get to the station (which went fine for me thankfully).

Useless fact - the trial at Winchester was taking place at the same time as three alleged members of the IRA were on trial for Conspiracy to kill Tom King at his home in Castel Combe - I was working on that trial and tracking the Swindon trial at the same time.

Trust me, you can't blame yourself for what you could have done - you weren't to know he would die later on; what you do know si that if you had known he would die, you would have done the right thing.

Remember it well.
Those days of taking ends and away fans in the home end, scary times.
Travelling away was risky.

So much safer now.

Also remember Northampton away in 86 when a Swindon fan got stabbed before the game.

Pompey were always in the Townend :D

The notorious 657.

That’s the crew!