Hooliganwatch™: Pub Speak Diplomacy
Of all the stories about we’ve read about the plans of German authorities to deal with potential troublemakers at the World Cup this one seems the most futile. Frankfurt police will be trained to use “pub speak” through megaphones to explain to crowds what the police are doing when, for example, they are arresting someone for being a jackass. The one catch is that this pub speak will be largely in German, which is a language that in its very sounds does not have much of a calming effect. This is especially true for the many English fans whose foreign language skills are not exactly renowned.
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By Dave Hamilton | May 20th, 2006 at 11:08 am 
Well, I have already predicted on another forum and to friends that there will be some very real challenges for the authorities for a number of reasons, principal among them being tickets that are scalped, but not accepted at the gates because the embedded microchips will not have the correct personal identification data on them after a “lottery” system that could put rival fans in the same sections.
Only the Germans would complicate things this way — and with the blessing of FIFA, who stifles free markets and doesn’t seem to care if stadiums have lots of absolutely unnecessarily empty seats.
If I were in charge, anyone attending games would have to pass a soccer test first. I am serious. I always bristle at people who don’t know a basketball from a soccer ball attending top-notch matches simply to say they had “been there.”
Dave Hamilton
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