This is news? They behave badly at home - except it seems to be accepted as
norm. And the booze is more expensive. This bit about having to behave in a
restrained fashion at home is pure BS.
And it is hardly recent. You may not remember the heyday of soccer
hooliganism. The only country ever expelled from international competition?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/wo...4crete.html?em

MALIA, Greece ?" Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the
Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the
telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.

They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and
getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics
seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted
diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan:
drinking themselves into oblivion.

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