Why does football attract violent losers?

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I'm not talking about all football fans, it's a minority - but it's a big enough minority to cause trouble when a really large number of fans are concentrated in one place. I have in mind the events in Manchester this Wednesday just gone, when Glasgow Rangers played against Zenit St Petersburg. There's a report here: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1049714_battle_of_piccadilly The short version of the story is that over 100,000 Glasgow Rangers fans arrived in Manchester and camped out in the city centre. Most of them didn't have tickets to the game, but the City Council still encouraged them to come by setting up special "fan zones" where big screen TVs were set up and beer was readily available. The results were predictable - Manchester city centre ground to a halt, sanitation facilities seem to have been basic to say the least, and even if there hadn't been any violence, the cleanup operation the next day would have been an appalling job to have to do. Fortunately I didn't have any business in town, but from the news reports the streets resembled an open sewer. But of course there was violence. The big screen TV in Piccadilly Gardens broke down and for some of these fans that was all the trigger that was needed to go on the rampage. Cars were overturned, a copper was attacked by a mob of thugs and a Russian fan was stabbed in the vicinity of the City of Manchester Stadium. It's a wonder no-one was killed. The leader of the council appeared on TV the next day acting all shocked, but he had no reason to be. His council had encouraged those guys to be there - people always say that it's a minority who cause the trouble, but it's a minority that's always there. You gather 100,000+ football fans in one place and get them beered up, and there will be trouble, as sure as night follows day. Why is that? Why football in particular? No other sport that I'm aware of attracts violence on this kind of level.