Tuesday, November 17, 2015

It's all going down in Europe now...

Two bad soccer stories in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks indicate soccer in Europe may be in serious danger going forward:
  • The explosion heard on that video was a suicide bomber at the Paris stadium.  That he was denied entry may have saved hundreds or thousands of lives, but one of the attackers blew his vest when he was denied entry into the France-Germany match...
  • ... and the following German friendly match with the Netherlands was cancelled today after a bomb scare!  (And the two are related, the German head of state was planning to attend this match.)  France did play their next friendly, in England, with numerous statements of solidarity before and during the match.
Something tells me, given the rather rambunctious nature of European soccer on a normal basis, this is FAR from over.

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