Reason #3289 why soccer sucks: psycho fans.
Let me get this straight, you're living in Kenya your country has had no government for the last decade, lawlessness, crime, poverty are everywhere, your country's top export is starving orphans and you kill yourself over a European SOCCER GAME?
Worse yet, you're Nigerian and your job is scamming Americans over e-mail and you kill a bunch of people over some British soccer game?
Let me get this straight, you're living in Kenya your country has had no government for the last decade, lawlessness, crime, poverty are everywhere, your country's top export is starving orphans and you kill yourself over a European SOCCER GAME?
Worse yet, you're Nigerian and your job is scamming Americans over e-mail and you kill a bunch of people over some British soccer game?
A Nigerian man was detained following the Barcelona-Manchester United soccer match when he took fanaticism to a new level and plowed a bus into a group of rival fans, killing four and injuring 10 others, the BBC reports. The European Champions League title match, played in Rome this year, is one of Europe's biggest sporting events. And this year, Barcelona took home the title with a 2-0 win, much to the chagrin of United fans, according to the New York Times.
European soccer is closely followed throughout Africa by what are, needless to say, extremely ardent fans. According to the BBC, an Arsenal fan in Kenya hung himself earlier this month after his team lost to Manchester United in the semifinals. And in Rome, at the site of Wednesday's match, an American Manchester United fan mistaken for being British was knifed in the leg, the Guardian reports.
According to a statement from a police spokeswoman in Ogbo, Nigeria, speaking to Reuters, the enraged Manchester fan driving the bus was pushed over the edge at the sight of celebrating Barcelona fans. "The driver had passed the crowd then made a U-turn and ran into them.
European soccer is closely followed throughout Africa by what are, needless to say, extremely ardent fans. According to the BBC, an Arsenal fan in Kenya hung himself earlier this month after his team lost to Manchester United in the semifinals. And in Rome, at the site of Wednesday's match, an American Manchester United fan mistaken for being British was knifed in the leg, the Guardian reports.
According to a statement from a police spokeswoman in Ogbo, Nigeria, speaking to Reuters, the enraged Manchester fan driving the bus was pushed over the edge at the sight of celebrating Barcelona fans. "The driver had passed the crowd then made a U-turn and ran into them.
