Exhibition aims to kick violence out of the game with pork products

After spending more than a century in a restless search for its true place in culture and society, football is no nearer understanding where it fits in than when it began. Increasingly resented by the proles as they find themselves priced out of their own game, and scoffed at by the middle classes for its appalling lack of taste and refinement, it’ll soon be the Priory for football if it doesn’t sort its head out.

To help in this quest for self-knowledge, Herr Klaus Littman of Switzerland has stepped forward, with his travelling exhibition called “Passion on the Terraces”. Featuring exhibits such as a replica of the pig’s head that Barcelona fans threw at Luis Figo, the Vespa that Milan fans pushed over the edge of the stadium and onto the heads of Atlanta’s travelling support below and all sorts of neo-Nazi weaponry, Herr Littman hopes to illustrate the “passion and violence” that accompany the game.

This is not some voyeuristic carnival, however. Oh no. Herr Littman claims his show is made without “moral or value judgements” and hopes it will have “an educational and preventative effect,” especially on “the young”.
The show is currently making its way around Spain, where pig’s heads are too common a sight to horrify the young away from the path of violence. Indeed, since some of the more rural visitors have probably sent a few pigs on their way themselves, Herr Littman may wish to make a little more of the Vespa incident to get his point across.