Hooliganwatch™: Pub Speak Diplomacy

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