. . . or hockey fans.

Where are the Chelsea firms? Once among the most feared in footy, the Ruskie buys the club and their hooligans go missing when their nation needs them. Fie.

Football hooligans communicating over the internet have spoken of the need to put aside partisan support for teams and unite against Muslims.

That's hilarious.

Did Yankees and Red Sox fans have to come to an explicit agreement after 9/11 to put aside differences over sporting events ??

Rudy Giuliani threw out the first pitch of this year at Fenway while wearing a Yankees cap and got a standing ovation.

Violence by mobs against Muslims is obviously wrong and should be punished to full extent of whatever criminal law remains in Britain today. Burning Korans and effigies of Osama are symbolic speech and should be protected.

BTW, I wouldn't be surprised if the Guardian, in its desire to discredit anyone who might be a patriotic Briton, planted phony messages on football websites themselves.

Can't wait to see what they do to any of these yobs who burn a Quran.

Bart:

"Whatever criminal law remains in Britain today..."

I guess it will be the bit that's left which is putting record numbers in prison:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4586949.stm

Doesn't OJ know that immigrants are bringing soccer to the US?

Britain's burglary rate is over twice the American rate. That is a dramatic change since the days of Lionel Jeffries and Peter Sellers' Wrong Arm of the Law, and not a change for the better.

Chris,

Yes, but their kids are playing real sports. Tony Casillas, Anthony Munoz and Jeff Garcia come to mind.

Bart:

Yeah but what you lack in burglary you more than make up for in homicides, tax evasion and crooked TV evangelists, so don't feel bad.

Okay, I see we've all agreed to take this story at face value then and pretend it's just another "Muslims are potential victims" story. These things always pop up after some Muslims kill a whole bunch of innocent people.

British people don't evade taxes? My goodness, in the US, France and Italy, it's practically a religious obligation to evade taxes. No wonder they call you guys, subjects. :)

No, it's an obligation here to avoid taxes. Evasion is for idiots: it costs bloody millions.

Yeah, it cost England a colony.

too bad they are putting farmers (or anyone else) who defends theirself in prison. the police force in the uk is a disgrace. the frederick west case, and that homegrown mengle proved they are a farce. socialist countries always have very high crime rates, they just monkey the stats to hide it. when the british start extraditing terrorists to the u.s. then i will concede they are getting serious. sheep are made to be sheared.

I think it's okay to burn Allah's book if you wear white gloves when you toss it on the barby