The Beautiful Game? Header on a Stake.

[Spade]

Soccer fans kill and quarter referee in Brazil - World - CBC News
Spearing in hockey next?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

One would have thought this game was a Stanley Cup Final loss in Vancouver or something.

 

[Mowich]

Soccer fans kill and quarter referee in Brazil - World - CBC News
Spearing in hockey next?

I doubt any NHL refs are packing knives on the ice, Spade. They take their soccer pretty seriously down there. 8O

 

[Spade]

A real man's sport; the sport of those who would be kings...
The Man Who Would Be King Polo Scene Human Head - YouTube

 

[Cliffy]

Brazilians! - "How many is a brazillion?" - George Dubbya.

 

[PoliticalNick]

 

[Spade]

One would have thought this game was a Stanley Cup Final loss in Vancouver or something.

Lest some ethnocentric churl gleefully point out that, in the OP, I Cherry picked a "less civilised tribe" (as that great defender of democracy Churchill would phrase it) to lampoon, I know full well hockey is barbaric too. Well do I know why broadcasters delight in saying, "The referees have put away their whistles." It is not to let mayhem on ice please the crowd, it is simple self preservation.

Unbelievable Hockey Fight - YouTube
A soccer game broke out.