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<blockquote data-quote="Rizuli" data-source="post: 625325" data-attributes="member: 71079"><p>1. Got that mixed up, you are correct. </p><p></p><p>2. Thank you</p><p></p><p>3. Not sure if I was being 100% clear here, but I think we're making the same point. I'm saying that assembling a crowd to watch a sporting event does not necessarily make the crowd any more violent than a crowd assembled for any other purpose. If you put a large number of people into a single space, there is always the potential for violence (which explains some of the isolated incidents we've seen in sports such as rugby). However, this potential is usually low enough to not require fan segregation. You are correct, however, that football is the only sport that does require it (a result of the sports history and other factors, as explained in the previous post).</p><p></p><p>What I was trying to say is that violence can still happen in other sports, but it's almost always a result of the inherent potential for violence in a crowd, not a result of a prevailing trend in the sport. You put enough people together, some of them aren't going to like each other, but it doesn't mean the sport causes violence. In football though, because of the history, there is a much higher potential for violence than with any other sports crowd, leading to segregation, as you pointed out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rizuli, post: 625325, member: 71079"] 1. Got that mixed up, you are correct. 2. Thank you 3. Not sure if I was being 100% clear here, but I think we're making the same point. I'm saying that assembling a crowd to watch a sporting event does not necessarily make the crowd any more violent than a crowd assembled for any other purpose. If you put a large number of people into a single space, there is always the potential for violence (which explains some of the isolated incidents we've seen in sports such as rugby). However, this potential is usually low enough to not require fan segregation. You are correct, however, that football is the only sport that does require it (a result of the sports history and other factors, as explained in the previous post). What I was trying to say is that violence can still happen in other sports, but it's almost always a result of the inherent potential for violence in a crowd, not a result of a prevailing trend in the sport. You put enough people together, some of them aren't going to like each other, but it doesn't mean the sport causes violence. In football though, because of the history, there is a much higher potential for violence than with any other sports crowd, leading to segregation, as you pointed out. [/QUOTE]
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