But Egyptian sports fans seem to be having a riotous time. I don't think this is entirely about the game and lousy crowd management and general bad tempers. The Blues and the Greens in Constantinople were fans of their respective chariot race teams, but their battles weren't just about which racer was going to win. It wasn't safe to complain openly about politics, so if Justinian was a Blue, you could be a Green to show opposition.
I don't think that politics explains the violence of British soccer fans, though.
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Maybe it does. There is at least a part of it that revels in the type of people a team represents, and there is both a class-warfare and a we-really-hate-certain bastards more than you wimps do aspect.
It's not very pure, and perhaps I am saying no more than some people who fell left out are resentful and gravitate to anything, football being handy.
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