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Referee loses his head (is this going too far?)

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How seriously should we take sport? This seriously?

The Daily Mail said:
Brazilian soccer referee beheaded by angry fans who put his head on a stake after he stabbed player
The match took place June 30 in Maranhao, Brazil
A fight between referee Octavio da Silva Catanhede Jordan, 20, and player Josenir dos Santos Abreu, 30, resulted in the fatal stabbing of Santos Abreu
Fans stormed the field to quarter, behead and place da Silva's head on a stake
Police have arrested one man so far in relation to the crime, and are looking for at least two others
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This quote does not do justice to the story. Before being beheaded he was first stoned and then had his hands and feet chopped off. WTF?
 
If it is acceptable for a referee to get hate mail and death threats when he makes a bad call, then I guess an argument by extrapolation can be made that beheading is an appropriate response if he stabs one of the players.
 
Sport has always been serious business for a lot of people. For a lot of fans it seems like it becomes a substitute or extension of the tribalism that is more or less instinctual amongst a large part of the human species.
 
This is proof that soccer (football) is insufficiently violent to perform a purgative function in society. American Football, hockey and rugby fans may get drunk and trash streets after a rousing game but don't execute referees.

Soccer (football) needs to become more violent to prevent this kind of fan behaviour.
 
Arcade22 said:
Sport has always been serious business for a lot of people. For a lot of fans it seems like it becomes a substitute or extension of the tribalism that is more or less instinctual amongst a large part of the human species.
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Dont kid yourself, the whole species. You and I both live along with everyone else on the same continuum of severity, perhaps not as effected, but effected still the same.
 
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I think there would be uproar, even violence, if a referee pulled a knife and stabbed a player to death in the middle of a game in England. I am inclined to doubt whether he would be cut to pieces and have is head spiked though. The guy was only 20 for Pete's sake.
 
MikeG said:
Already being discussed here.
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There's a sports forum here? Wow.

BenBurch said:
Heck there have been WARS over soccer games.
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It's at times like this that I'm reminded of a comment from a friend at college; if someone has a bedroom covered in <insert team here> posters, wallpaper and junk, sleeps under a ITH duvet, drinks from an ITH cup, this is considered normal. If you replace the team with 'Star Trek' this is considered weird.
How many riots and deaths can be attributed to Trek fans.
 
Here in Europe we have more class. This ref was only kicked to death which was very considerate, all things considered.

A Dutch court has convicted six amateur footballers and the father of one of the players of manslaughter after a volunteer linesman was kicked to death whilst officiating his son's junior club match.

Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a 41-year-old father of three, died from severe head injuries sustained while being ambushed and beaten by a group of teenage football players in an attack on 2 December that shocked the football mad nation.

Judges in Lelystad sentenced 50-year-old father, identified only as El-Hasan D, to six years in prison. Five teenaged players were given two-year sentences in youth detention for their roles in the attack and another was sentenced to a year.
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Correction. He was only a linesman.

Seriously, there are people out there who seem to go looking for trouble. A few weeks ago my son (15) was in a game in which the other team's linesman was repeatedly ruling Tom's lot offside when it was quite blatantly apparent there was no infringement. Aside from the sheer pointlessness of such cheating it an be highly inflammatory for some. It only takes a few hotheads for something as inconsequential to spark a riot.
 
My friend claimed once that there was an average of four murders after Old Firm (the two Glasgow-based teams, Celtic and Rangers) matches at the beginning of the 20th century. Haven't found a source for this though. There was a particularly horrific killing in the mid-1990s, but there has been a lot of work in the last few years done to try and reduce sectarianism.
 
commandlinegamer said:
My friend claimed once that there was an average of four murders after Old Firm (the two Glasgow-based teams, Celtic and Rangers) matches at the beginning of the 20th century. Haven't found a source for this though. There was a particularly horrific killing in the mid-1990s, but there has been a lot of work in the last few years done to try and reduce sectarianism.
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Putting them 3 divisions apart has probably helped.
 
catsmate1 said:
There's a sports forum here? Wow.


It's at times like this that I'm reminded of a comment from a friend at college; if someone has a bedroom covered in <insert team here> posters, wallpaper and junk, sleeps under a ITH duvet, drinks from an ITH cup, this is considered normal. If you replace the team with 'Star Trek' this is considered weird.
How many riots and deaths can be attributed to Trek fans.
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My dorm room wall was covered in middle earth maps and pictures of naked women...
 
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