Hooliganism at a local football match

Re: To the letter “Hooliganism at local football match”

Dear editor of City Gazette.

I will write some few comments to the letter that were posted last week.

First I want to say that I was there at the match with some friends, and I saw it all. It was definitely not a good a experience, either for me or any of the spectators. Suddenly, I saw about 20 people starting to burn flags, yelling and screaming at once. At that time, I got very choked and worried for the spectators around them. Fortunately, I was so far from them, that they couldn’t hurt me, but still close enough to see it all. I saw guards around them trying to stop it, without luck. When they first started to throw bottles and other things, that could hurt the players, onto pitch, the play had to be stopped. Afterwards, there was a big street fight, and around 25 people were arrested. Actually a man and his son got hurt by the burning flags, and they were driven to the hospital immediately. The man is one of my good friends, and they are now about to get better, and they only got some burn marks from the fire. The hooligans are hurting other innocent people, and I don’t see any reason to act like that during a match. I know they are getting obsessed with a match, but I still don’t think, that they should throw things into the pitch and burn flags, which is all things that not only goes beyond themselves but also others.