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Charity Means Nothing for Soccer Scum

It was supposed to have been a good day out for people wanting to enjoy a soccer match and raise money for a charity named after two Victorian coppers murdered while on duty.

There was a large crowd of mostly sensible types at the Tynan-Eyre Cup, a small police presence - and several hundred mentally retarded oiks who just couldn't keep there nationalism in their pants.

Yup, the match was between South Melbourne, a largely Greek supported outfit, and Preston, a Macedonian backed club.

Now political rivalries between the two nationalities go back thousands of years - probably to the No.1 Macedonian old Alexander the Great - whose labelling as a Greek offends Macedonians.

Anyway, it seems the stupid sods who attend Preston matches can't quite get it into their gorilla-like minds that soccer is a sport and should be fun - or that a charity game doesn't mean much other than to raise funds for a good cause.

About several hundred of them decided that they didn't like the way things were going - their heroes being down 5-0 at half-time (pathetic sooky hacks) - and so, stuff the fact this was a charity game, they decided a little riot was what was needed.

It seems the best way to have fun for some of those who live in Preston - apart from drag racing 30-year-old cars, shoplifting, wandering around in gangs, saying "maaaaaaate" or herding goats - is to denigrate the memory of two guys who were killed trying to protect the community.

According to reports, hundreds of red-and-yellow bedecked Preston fans ran on to the pitch shouting "Makedonia" and then began fighting with the police. I mean just how much more moronic can these types be.

Unfortunately there was not a huge police presence at the game - and only three mounted officers - otherwise the boys/gals in blue could have had a bit of fun with the screaming scumbags. A couple of dozen more horses and they could have weighed into the deranged loons with batons and hooves flying and put a few in hospital.

I reckon the head of the Victoria Police Blue Ribbon Foundation, John Forbes, understated the incident when he called it "a bloody disgrace".

But how about this ...

The Preston president was good enough to condemn the appalling actions of his brain-dead supporters, but then ruined it with this reported comment.

"I have condemned this action but I believe the security should be responsible for controlling the crowd. It was 100 individuals. We can't control that."

Hate to say this (not really) but if a sports club has such a bad reputation and then its supporters go and do something like that then it deserves to be thrown out of the competition.

Mind you, if all those little goat boys can't spend their time creating havoc at sports matches then maybe they'd do something really bad and try to burn their suburb down. Hmmmmmm ... maybe there's something in that.

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