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It's actually not soccer that has lost its class... it's simply a lack of sportsmanship. "Real soccer fans" is a United States term which comes with US sportsmanship. World Futbol is played with a wide range of emotions depending on what continent you are playing. In Costa Rica, expect a fight on the field and more in the stands if you can risk the adventure. South Africa... I've been told by a native, that the value of life is so little in some areas that there can be fans killed at or around games. When you take college basketball into consideration, a school like Duke can heckle the other team all day long... and it's acceptable. So, why would soccer be different? I don't think the problem is with soccer... it's with society.



Right about the society. Deconstructing the various society structures would be worth an A+++ paper in college. Unfortunately a good portion (no offence intended) of teachers of this age don't quite "teach" to make society better and would quite require an A+++ paper on such a subject to pass a student.Teaching has basically a "job" and very few actually teach human values besides calculations e.t.c all over the world. Our great grandparents and their parents even without teacher education,if we brought them back to fix all this,they would do a much better job than a good number of current Doctorate,Phd,e.t.c educators or so called school "presidents" or "teachers" that we have today.Failure in this aspect of society leads to all the occurances named above and alot more.Yet we spend less on one of the most important aspects of society - the teacher. Hope this hasn't gone off the point but it really is an obvious case of degenerative humane instruction no matter what part of the world one is at.