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Yeah, I think there's probably a stigma. I'm not sure Ted Lasso helped.

From the Men in Blazers studios in the crap part of Bedford, New York and the crap part of West Hollywood, California, it's the Men in Blazers podcast, Roger.

We back, like LeBron Hamayers, Wild Days, Dave O'Geef, O'P Tom Hanley, Rue Say, Rueva, which really captured the turmoil of the times we live in when he wrote, I missed the simpler days when Diego Costa seemed like the worst man in the world.

Yeah. Yeah. Different definition of evil.

Oh, Roger. I missed those more naive. I do. I do. Exactly. And John, well, we've still got Jose Maria. Roger. We still got Jose.

What a three through a bib at Jose Maria. Well, that's just chaos. Democracy in peril.

We should begin. I mean, this is just, I guess we've got a one pack, the ongoing spiraling storylines at Chelsea. But first we must address the darkness in Mexico. Saturday night, conflicting reports of exactly what happened in the ramifications as we pod.

And then of them, all we can say for sure is horrific scenes at the game between Atlas and K. Ray, Tarot, which was suspended in the second half after fans burst out the stands and just began to attack each other with knives with chairs,

and we don't want any object at hand. The footage, Peter show at last fans just being beaten savagely and official reports currently have 26 injured, and no deaths, many journalists are questioning those numbers.

We get MX has been suspended belatedly, but it was all just it was a human horror to witness, David. Yeah, it's awful. I mean, you know, we have a tendency to think that we've gone through the dark days of fan violence.

In the 1970s, 1980s were particularly awful. This was something else in the scenes, you know, captured on a series of mobile phones were just awful. And it just reminds everybody is this sort of this, this sort of fine balancing point, this fulcrum between, you know, super fandom and violence.

And that's just sort of overflows into hatred just horrific for any football fan to watch that is just horrific.

You know, there's been calls for FIFA to investigate seeing as Mexico is set to co host the 2026 World Cup, but it will say, David, for me, the images of kids being rushed out of the stadium by their panic parents, many of whom rip the atlas tops off their own children so that they would not be subject to the random acts of violence.

Our so harrowing kids for whom football, which should be a joy and which will be a trauma now for an extended period that is perhaps most harrowing of all and some pivot into really a week of ongoing darkness because we have to address up top the continued fallout of the Ukraine invasion.

I should say I did find it incredibly touching. I don't know about you, David watching the Premier League, the first game of the weekend, less the leads, the solidarity with Ukraine was marked before kickoff.

We've often said often said too often now to know that football is the most important least important thing.

But the Premier League is the world's biggest platform and it means a lot to see the message of connection and solidarity with Ukraine beamed around the world, especially as at that first game, both sets of fans joined together to simultaneously and instantaneously saying, Putin is abasted.

That seems an appropriate response and an appropriate message. I mean, look, I, of course, it is the word heartwarming or I don't know what the word is to watch these moments of solidarity, these statements of togetherness, football coming together.

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