for americans, with crime ridden no go areas in most cities and where gun toting madmen massacre families, schoolchildren and shoppers on an almost daily basis and where even the police regularly shoot to death the innocent, to accuse brits of violent behaviour is the height of ignorant hypocrisy.
a friendly punch up between consenting adults where a few blows are exchanged, a chair or two thrown and a couple of windows smashed and some obscene and racist chants are voiced is all part and parcel of a day out for the lower end soccer fan, it is all greatly exaggerated by the red top press and quite frankly, manchester united supporters are mostly deserving recipients of a good bruising on a saturday afternoon.