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Deadly Egyptian soccer riots of 2012

New Delhi: Soccer is the world's most popular Olympic sport, but  in Port Said, Egypt, on 1st Feb, 2012,  people who called themselves lovers of soccer  turned their favourite game into an ugly one. The



No less than 74 people were killed and hundreds were injured in the most violent riots in the history of soccer which erupted as soon as the referee blew the final whistle.