Trouble on the Terraces

The violence at last night's Roma game was hardly a shock. No doubt there were plenty of English fans just waiting for an excuse to kick-off, and a lot of drunks too stupid to see what would inevitably happen when they started throwing missiles back across the perspex fence, but judging by the TV pictures the only difference between an Italian football thug and a policeman is that one carries a knife and the other wields a baton.