At least 73 people have been killed in Port Said, Egypt after violence broke out at today's game between al-Masry and al-Ahly, Al Jazeera reports.

Details are still coming in. But it appears as though hundreds of fans from the winning al-Masry team stormed the field and began attacking al-Ahly players and fans after the game. More than 100 were injured according to CNN, and the death toll has risen to 73.

Al Jazeera reports that many of the victims died of "suffocation or head injuries."

Egyptian officials have suspended the entire league indefinitely, according to widespread reports.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/01/egypt-football-pitch-invasion-dead

There’s really no point in pinning blame yet. It’s the same mentality that led to knee-jerkedly blaming Liverpool supporters post-Hillsboro until the Taylor Report came out and absolved them.
In the recent Ajax match, yes it was an Ajax supporter who was the pitch invader, but it could easily have been an AZ or a Den Haag or Feyenoord supporter, on a different day, in a different match.

There are many issues for hooliganism and there is no such thing as one club or one faction that is worse than any other, on any given day. in UEFA, they are lucky enough that violence has been muted down to racial slurs. mostly. and any club’s supporters are as capable of that as any others. So pointing blame at one set of fans does what? doesn’t bring back the dead. doesn’t heal the injured. doesn’t fix the image of that tragic day. it does, however, allow the governing body(ies) to say “oh, it was just THOSE fans” and not have to deal with the issue.

Football violence has always been around, sadly people choose to use the game as it provides the biggest media audience for their hooliganism. it is not football's problem but society in generals problem. These people are not thugs between 12 - 6 on a Saturday matchday, they are like that 24/7.

If knitting tourneys got as big a crowd then there would be knitting hooligans.

Kudos to Coach Bradley for being visible and the Egyptian soccer base heals.

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http://www.mlssoccer.com/blog/post/2012/02/02/ex-us-coach-bradley-joins-protest-marches-egypt