91.   The fact that Major League Soccer has been in a long-standing legal dispute with its players generally comes as news to even the most devoted soccer fans.

92.   The French soccer fans have decades of disappointment to exorcise, in relation to the Italians, the Germans, the Brazilians, the Argentines.

93.   The locals had returned from California or Greece or deep in the countryside where no soccer fan could find them.

94.   The melee was fueled by anger over the fatal stabbings in April of two English soccer fans attending a match in Turkey.

95.   The soccer fans were hooting and hollering.

96.   Then, with a suddeness that has left soccer fans bewildered, everything changed.

97.   There are Web sites for soccer fans, advising them to travel to international matches under assumed names.

98.   This crowd included prosperous Latin Americans in town for the World Cup final and that well-known U.S. soccer fan Henry Kissinger.

99.   This year, dozens of Web sites are counting on chat rooms, message boards and other interactive features to lure soccer fans online during and between the matches.

100.   To me, they are a lot like the soccer fans in Europe who have become pathological and dangerous.