noodlehair
"It's like..."
This.Some of you are more interested in the theoretical reasons for why nothing has happened than in the amazing experience of those reporting back from the event. Those who hunger for trouble will find it.
This thread (the first page in particular) is ridiculous and a testament to how easy it is for our media to warp people's perceptions of things beyond all reasonable logic.
Reading quite a few of the posts you would think Russia is some kind of cesspit populated by racist, homophobic thugs who spend all day thinking about beating up other team's football fans and insulting black people, and the only way to control the populous is for Putin to send the boys round. As opposed to you know, just being a country, with normal people living in it.
A lot has been made of the Marseille stuff. I was there. The trouble wasn't indicative at all of how the Russian fans we met and spoke to before and after the game behaved or conducted themselves. We were also warned in Nice a couple of days before by various people that there would be trouble in Marseille. Even down to being informed, accurately, the spots where the trouble would be...which if anything says more about Marseille than it does Russian fans.