It's kind of funny the way soccer (football) attracts violence. Maybe somebody out
there will explain why.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Dear Peter,
>
> >That's nothing new. I do remember that after a previous world cup a player
> >was killed
> >in Colombia. His crime? He had either allowed or missed a goal.
> That's par for the course. Football was banned for a while in England a
> few hundred years ago - why? Because of the violence and deaths. The
> sport engenders violence like none other.
>
> >  As for the French don't forget  they introduced the guillotine to the
> >world. But
> >they also began talking about democracy before anybody else was, save the
> >Greeks of
> >course! Ah revolution!
> I always thought the French "revolution" was a kind of precursor of
> communism, "What about the poor woikers?" "We're all equal except some of
> us are more equal than others."

 I wasn't very clear. I was not making the connection between the revolution and
democracy but rather the French thought way back.

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