It's a good marketing opportunity for SBC I would have thought...
"Swindon - Better than a war zone".
Works for me.
As it happens there are more specific issues of that nature affecting El Gabbas' first club, Al Masri, in Port Said. Last year 73 people were killed in fighting at a game there against a Cairo team resulting this year in very contentious and allegedly political death sentences made against over 20 people.
