The tragic clashes that took place at a stadium in Port Said on Wednesday night, killing 74 and injuring over 1,000, might be seen as a simple, if deadly, football disaster. After all, such tragedies have happened elsewhere, including in western Europe (remember Sheffield or the Heysel disaster in Brussels?), and are sparked from a culture of football hooliganism (thriving in Europe for decades and more recently in Egypt too), poor security and the tendency of panicked crowds to stampede. Sounds plausible enough, right?
But few in Egypt would buy that story...
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