"Kurds and Arabs Clash, Over a Ball" By DAVID ROHDE http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/international/middleeast/01KURD.html free registration required "The players from Baghdad arrived unarmed, did their level best to win and depended on the Kurdish police to protect them from more than 5,000 screaming Kurdish fans, some openly hostile, others more conciliatory." Wonder what would have happened if the Baghdad team won?