Egypt's revolutionary soccer ultras: How football fans toppled Mubarak

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/football/06/29/football.ultras.zamalek.ahly/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

"Regime! Be very scared of us
We are coming tonight with intent
The supporters of Al Ahly will fire everything up
God almighty will make us victorious Go, hooligans!"
Chant of the Al Ahly Ultras, before the Egyptian revolution

It was as if a levee had finally broken, and for once there was no retribution. Some 7,000 fans of Al Ahly, Egypt's largest soccer club, gathered for the first match of the Egyptian football season and chanted the names of the regime and its apparatchiks they had fought for the past four years.

"F*** the mother of Hosni Mubarak!" shouted Assad, the leader of Al Ahly's militant ultra group Al Ahlawy, at the police in front of him. Thousands followed suit. "Go f*** your Minister, Habib al Adly!"

This show of dissent would have been ruthlessly cut down a few months ago. But Mubarak and Al Adly -- the former Minister of the Interior and the man formally in charge of Egypt's hated police force -- were now under arrest.