It sounds like the Moscow police are muscilling in on the Pro-domme business

[Aeiyah]

I wonder if a few fans at yesterday's Champions League final were unruly just to test if the Moscow police delivered as promised.

A Tonight in Moscow, the Champions League final - Europe's rough equivalent of the Super Bowl - will take place between English clubs Manchester United and Chelsea. It will be tense, dramatic and physical.

Hopefully the soccer game will be, too.

In addition to the regular hooligans who follow their team, each side has a fan club of Russian thugs who carry weapons for pre-arranged fights. It all has Moscow on high alert, with 7,000 riot police tapped for duty.

Among the measures today:

• There will be no public screenings of the match in Moscow.

• Fans who are drunk might be taken to "sobering houses" - mobile cells where they are stripped naked and chained to beds.

• One British tabloid raised the possibility of ice-cold showers.

But mostly, Russian officials are merely threatening evildoers with the wrath of the Omon, a group of 20,000 officers around Russia who get their jobs by winning five no-holds-barred fistfights. They carry machine guns and quell riots. Many of them have worked in war-torn Chechnya.

 

[cuteeboy]

Would that have worked with The Rangers Fans

I can only guess that The Glasgow Rangers Fans would have kept the sobering up beds busy the way the did in Manchster last week.

cuteeboy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7401814.stm

 

[WASP]

Memories

Reminds me of the old days, down at "The Den"
Millwall rules.
No coppers there with machine guns. Just bloody big dogs and truncheons.
Some times the fights were interupted by a flash of good football .