THE awful scenes at the Nou Camp during the clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid on Saturday spoilt what is one of the greatest football matches on earth and underlined the fact that Spain now has a football hooligan problem. To use that now infamous phrase the beautiful game was shamed by a few mindless thugs. It is also disturbing how missiles such as a pig's head and even a whisky bottle can be smuggled into the ground. Spain's leading sports newspaper, Marca summed it up with the headline, shameful, on Sunday. More worrying for Spain is that while other nations appear to have overcome hooliganism in Spain it has just started. The Spanish Football Association needs to launch an urgent investigation into the matter and if necessary the next Real Madrid v. Barcelona clash should be played behind closed doors. I think you can safely say that half of Spain were in bars on Saturday night watching the game. They all saw how this great match was turned into an ugly spectacle with play being stopped for 20 minutes because of missiles behind thrown at Portuguese international Figo, the former Barcelona player who is now at Real Madrid. There have been allegations that he attempted to fan the flames but this is no excuse. The Spanish Football Association needs to clamp down on this sort of hooliganism before it is too late.
What a disgrace
26/11/2002 00:00
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