JUST A PATHOLOGY:

Argentina's Soccer Gangs Test Limits of Public Tolerance (Monte Reel, February 24, 2007, Washington Post)

Even by the standards of Argentina, where people like to joke that soccer is less a pastime than a pathology, a recent surge of fan violence has been exceptional.

In the past two weeks, local stadiums have erupted in mass fights -- some of them all-out brawls injuring dozens of fans -- an average of every other day.