Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Egypt’s US Coach Bob Bradley calls football violence a “set up, a massacre”

Bikya Masr

"CAIRO: Egypt’s national football team manager Bob Bradley said in an interview with Al-Jazeera news network that he believes, after speaking with leading football officials in the country, that the violence last Wednesday at a match in Port Said that left 75 people dead was not simple football violence.

He argued that it did not have the markings of hooliganism, instead telling the news network that “this has all the markings of a setup, of a massacre, and with it there’s been many levels of questions that have been asked, and that’s why in the last few days there has again been confrontation in and around Tahrir Square.”

Bradley pointed out that young people in Egypt are again making their voices heard in the protests that erupted on Thursday, after fans and activists gathered in downtown Cairo to demand the removal of the military junta.

“Young people are again making their feelings known about the situation in the country and what has happened since the revolution,” he said......."

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