As you're probably aware, Brazilian football (CBF and CONMEBOL for that matter) have no respect for the international break. So two matches took place in Brazil on Wednesday night one for Copa Sudamericana and one for the Brasileiro. And it was enough for the biggest collective nervous breakdown, I've ever seen.

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Thanks to our friends at Dirty Tackle for bringing this to our attenion. Imagine you have two teams who quite literally hate each other to the core, two local rivals who can't stand the sight of each other. Then you take an away team who takes the spoils and you add a player who wishes to create mayhem.

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The second division rivalry between the German clubs FC Hansa Rostock and St. Pauli ended with a 2-0 victory for St. Pauli and some Hansa Rostock supporter being on the receiving end of a water cannon.
Angered by the loss on their home pitch, 500 die hard fans of FC Hansa Rostock tried to breach a police barrier and began throwing bottles and firecrackers. Click to continue reading...

A report from the English-language Hurriyet Daily News cites that Diyarbakirspor is considering withdrawing from the Turkish league. This decision may come to pass if the club continues to receive verbal and physical abuse. Diyarbakırspor chairman Çetin Sümer discussed this with the chairman of the TFF, Mahmut Özgener, and Sümer said Monday that his team had been insulted by political slogans during the games.

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Kick Off magazine reports that Kirsten Nematandani emerged victorious in the contentious SAFA presidential race during a marathon annual general meeting in Joburg. Nematandani was elected unopposed after 2010 LOC Chief Executive Officer Danny Jordaan and Chairman Irvin Khoza withdrew from the race.

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I'm biting my tongue from saying lots of people involved in Italian soccer are criminals.
But Luciano Spalletti is going to manage actual convicts in a unique game coming up Saturday.

According to La Repubblica, the Italian will take part in a specially organised match that will see members of parliament take on convicted criminals on a prison football pitch in Massa.

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Even putting troubles related for his failures as Argentina's coach aside, Maradona really isn't doing so great at the moment. For one, he's checked himself into a clinic in order to lose weight (this, of course, after he's already had gastric bypass surgery). And as if that weren't demoralizing enough, for some reason he did so in Northern Italy where the finance police eagerly await his return like your dog waits for you to come home.

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(video produced by Hajduk Split's official fan club Torcida and set to obligatory football violence soundtrack "Bodies")

230 Hajduk Split fans were detained by Slovakian police when they arrived for a Europa League qualifying match against MSK Zilina last Thursday, setting a record for Slovakia.

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After Cruzeiro's 3-1 victory over Gremio, Maxi Lopes from Gremio was detained by two police officers. The accusation: racism. Cruzeiro's Elicarlos accused the Argentinean forward of calling him "macaco" (monkey). The term is usually used in Argentina when trying to offend a Brazilian.

During the match, the two players had an argument.

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A growing number of Southend United fans are calling on the Blues' Chief Executive to resign following comments on the club's official website.
Geoffrey King has upset supporters by accusing a small section of Shrimpers' fans of fighting between themselves, during Saturday's game with Leicester City at Roots Hall. Click to continue reading...

A total of 1,100 police officers will be on duty for Sunday's superclasico between arch-rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate...
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Safety has long been an issue when talk turns to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Yesterday, organizers of the upcoming Confederations Cup and 2010 World Cup assured the world that these events will be safe.
Recent crowd control issues in the Ivory Coast have sparked concern when it comes to the situation in South Africa. Click to continue reading...

Buffalo has a ton of collection agencies. Most are reputable companies who follow the rules and laws while trying to collect old debt.

But Chris Hansen of Dateline NBC did a 6 part series on "the Debt Trap" and included two local debt collection companies who were caught on hidden cameras engaging in some not so tasteful tactics.

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From the office of the Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith comes this:

A plan to establish a "green" jobs development institute, put federal money to work creating tens of thousands of new infrastructure jobs and getting more than 1,000 new cops on the street are just some of the job creation efforts included in this year's budget passed today.

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ASHLEY Cole has been arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly, according to PA Sport. #bodycopy a { font-size: 12px; } The Chelsea left-back was allegedly detained following a drunken, foul-mouthed rant to police officers in the early hours of this morning. Police arrested the 28-year-old in Brompton road, South Kensington at around 2. Click to continue reading...

ASHLEY Cole has been arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly, according to PA Sport. #bodycopy a { font-size: 12px; } The Chelsea left-back was allegedly detained following a drunken, foul-mouthed rant to police officers in the early hours of this morning. Police arrested the 28-year-old in Brompton road, South Kensington at around 2. Click to continue reading...

While we all giggled and laughed at them throwing streamers at guys taking corner kicks, now it appears they're throwing beer and opposing players and fans.
Not cool kids.
Things came to a head recently in a match against Columbus.

And all the while, security -- there are 140 guards and between 24 and 48 police officers at every TFC game -- appeared to take no action against the beer tossers.

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It was an odd sight for this lifelong native of Toronto: patrolling police officers, body searches, and warnings about ejections for racist banners featuring extreme right-wing symbols. All for a crowd of four hundred Croatian and Serbian spectators for a low-level amateur football match on Parkdale's idyllic waterfront. Click to continue reading...

I had been determined not to team this team again as they slide from disaster to disaster in the nascent season but this one is too good to miss.
Club officials were told by the ISL governing body going into the weekend's fixture with Persela that they had two choices.
Play the game without police permission and risk going to jail. Click to continue reading...

More than 20 police force military officers were injured in force followers a Premiership football game derby.

Police said some of their military officers received minor hurts in hassles after the Pittsburgh Of The South City and Aston Pancho Villa lucifer at St Andrew's on Sunday.

Trouble flared outside the land after the game and force spreading to close the Bullring shopping promenade in the metropolis centre.

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