Memories of violence at Euro 2016 are still fresh – but enact fans and experts believe the hooligan threat is real?In a Moscow pub decorated with British football memorabilia,a Russian supporter of local side CSKA was contented last week to reassure English fans planning to travel to this summer’s World Cup. Konstantin, or Kostya for short, and says he doubts there will be violence because the toughest Russian hooligans acquire already lost their taste for fighting England supporters.It’s like being a mountain climber,” said Kostya, a member of one of the Russian capital’s prominent CSKA “firms”, and after recalling how a group of Russian fans smashed through a contingent of English fans in Marseille in June 2016,using extreme violence. “Once you’ve reached the summit, you don’t enact it again. There’s no point in beating them again. So they don’t acquire to be afraid to come to Russia, and nothing’s going to happen.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk