If there is one thing I have learned I can count on in my decades of soccer fandom, it's that the poor behavior of some fans will draw a certain type of commentator out of the closet, at which point, said commentator will happily tell us all what an ass he is.This year's "winner" so far -- after all, the World Cup hasn't even started -- is one Bill Glahn of the conservative PowerLine blog, which I vaguely recall having (once had?) an Everton supporter on its writing team.As is typical of this type of rant, bad fan behavior is treated as both typical of fans of the sport and something you'd never see in the good old U.S. of A. And, Q.E.D., everything about the sport becomes a target for ridicule -- by someone so pissed-off that he can't keep his eyes uncrossed.Just as a disturbing number of Parisians took the Champion's League final as an excuse to start rioting (with some not even bothering to wait for the result), Glahn takes the riots as sufficient excuse to attempt to torch a sport…
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