The British media has a massive responsibility. For reasons quite beyond me, the UK’s media is watched and read throughout Europe and disproportionately further afield than that — and it’s more than can be accounted for because of the BBC World Service.
And this global reach carries with is great responsibility. So why, WHY, do the British media organisations publicise that 200 English fans have been arrested as if that’s a massively important piece of news.
There have been 4,000 arrests so far and English fans don’t represent the majority and are probably not even the single largest group disproportionate from the massive number of supporters England has (60,000 I believe).
It is important that the English are not targetted as trouble-makers by other countries’ fans, and this sort of coverage (see the BBC today) is unhelpful at best.
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