Re: [sumo] Sumo and Soccer

[Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@webtrek.com>]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Joe Kuroda wrote:

> I was watching Japan's National Soccer team beat Team
> China in Beijing to win the Asia Cup again.
> 
> For those who may have not been checking the sports
> news in Japan, there were more off-field news and than
> on as the Chinese soccer fans booing during the
> playing of Japanese national anthem as well as
> throwing garbage to the players and supporters. 

> What has changed in the two months since the Jyungyo
> was held.  For those who wanted to voice their
> political opinion certainly could have done it at the
> Jyungyo.  Or the sumo fans there sufficiently
> different from soccer fans ?   Just was wondering...

	Soccer has been infected by the "Hooligan" syndrome.  While most 
people attribute this to the English soccer hooligans the phenomenon is 
actually much older than that.  It's been prevalent in baseball in the US 
for decades, though not to the extreme that the English Hooligans have 
taken things.  It's a sad comment on the cultural situation of the world 
today.

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