They only go there for a fight. All the people I know who travel to watch their teams abroad are ordinary people from and with ordinary families. They care passionately about football. They don't spend two weeks' wages, take three days off work and travel halfway across Europe looking for a fight. If they wanted to find a fight, they only need to go to the West End or to any provincial town on a Friday or Saturday night.
English fans do behave badly abroad regularly.
But then English people behave badly abroad. In this country football hooliganism is under control. It hasn't gone away, but it's under control. That may be thanks largely to closed-circuit television, but it's still true and it means that more and more women and young children are attending games in complete confidence and absolute safety. Some of the hacks who are writing the current codswallop ought to get out of the press boxes and sit in the stands with all the young kids and see how enjoyable and invigorating watching football in England can be.