Fresh from new scenes of violence by Western Sydney Wanderers’ fans during Saturday night’s A-League clash with Perth Glory, in which a flare was used and a 12-year-old fan launched an unprovoked attack on police pepper spray with his eyes, Channel Nine News is promising an exclusive to prove Wanderers fans were also behind the savage 387 BC Sack of Rome.

The incident is the latest in a string of misdemeanors by Wanderers fans ranging from the Jack the Ripper murders to the abduction of Azaria Chamberlain.

Historians have long attributed this instance of barbarians plundering and looting Rome, with a ferocity that long-scarred the emerging republic, to the Gauls that then-inhabited modern-day France.

But a Channel Nine spokesperson says the station’s investigations have uncovered new evidence suggesting the involvement of the infamous Wanderers’ active support group, the Red and Black Bloc (RBB).

“Our sources has uncovered ancient stashes of spent flares,” the spokesperson said, “and newly discovered graffiti on Rome’s walls, carbon-dated to the period, that quotes from known RBB chants, such as ‘We’re from the streets of Western Sydney’ and ‘Roman legions, we couldn’t hear you singing!'”

If proven true, this could shake long-standing assumptions about the history of the classical era, as well as provide fresh justification for the heavy police presence at Wanderers games.

“It would certainly explain why they need to bring out the riot squad and an anti-gang task force and horses and dogs against these people,” the spokesperson said. “The Roman army was the most feared fighting force in the world, yet the red-and-black hordes from Sydney’s west clearly proved too much. There is evidence the entire city was drunk dry of beer!”

The Channel Nine spokesperson refused to name their source for the new and potentially revolutionary archaeological revelations, to be broadcast by station later this week, but senior members of the Parramatta police station have been spotted in Rome in recent days.

Carlo Sands
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