re: Wright Thompson's feature espn story on racism in Italian soccer

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Italy's first football death came in 1979 during the Roma-Lazio derby, a Lazio fan accidentally killed by a Roma fan who thought a naval distress rocket was a regular flare.

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i shouldn't laugh but

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The politics of the terraces often lack logic, praising ethnic cleansers and paramilitary murderers, the Palestinians, the Irish and the Iraqis -- anyone they see as oppressed by a larger power. The specifics of the battles don't matter as much as the ethos.

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wow sounds like a certain club in scotland as well

overall great and even more eye opening piece