Causa causans.

Just who was responsible for the trouble at the recent football matches involving English teams in Italy and Spain? To hear some of the fans talk, it was all down to the local Police, who, according to them, "over-reacted". But the important word there is "re-acted". No-one is suggesting that the Police simply waded in and started roughing up fans just for the hell of it. They were re-acting to violence initiated by some of the fans. The way they went about it may be different and more robust than we are used to in this country, but if you venture abroad you have to be prepared to accept their way of doing things. The fact is that if the fans had behaved themselves, the Police would not have had cause to intervene. So let's put the blame squarely where it belongs - on those fans who chose to make trouble.