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THIS WENT WELL
Published 5/15/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip for your impressionable young children
... male officer is then set upon in Newton Street by a gang of about 20 fans who kick and stamp on him on the ground... Another senior officer was hit so hard his electronic earpiece was left embedded in his head and had to be removed by doctors. A third policeman was bottled over the head and another lost his front teeth after being head-butted by a Rangers hooligan. Soccer fans: making riot police sympathetic figures since the 16th century.  [Machochip] 

Yes, He Can [Blogdome]
Published 5/15/2008 by Will Leitch at Deadspin
• Barack Obama's brother-in-law talks about his new job at Oregon State. [Blazers Edge] • Rioting because of television problems. [Machochip] • So, we guess Big Brown's definitely gonna win, right? [Rumors And Rants] • How to heckle the Twins. [Heckler's Prospectus] • Why can't O.J. Mayo hire an agent again? [Foul Balls] • Any chance Brandon Webb could win 30 games? [Vegas Watch] • The Indians pitchers are out of control right now. [The Sports Lounge] • Great. We have to deal with Ryan Braun for eight more ...

Glasgow Rangers Fans Riot
Published 5/15/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... were playing in the UEFA Cup Final (which is like the poor man's Champion's League) and a bunch of drunken revelers came to watch them play on a giant TV screen set up in Manchester. Which is always a great idea. Get a bunch of drunken hooligans all together in one central location. Naturally the TV cut out half way through the game. Uh oh. The resulting chaos created pictures like the one above (from The Daily Mail), and this rather scary video courtesy of Machochip (via With Leather). ...

Hot Clicks: It's Marisa Miller's year
Published 5/16/2008 at SI.com - Extra Mustard
... You've heard of fans rioting in the streets after their team wins a championship. Well, in Glasgow, Scotland, fans rioted in the streets because a giant television screen that was showing a key soccer game went out during the action. The best part about this story is that it reminded us of one of our ...