the two men would square up and push out their chests like sparring gorillas as the bouncers intervened and the crowd whooped with joy and begged for chaos , violence and fury like it was the coliseum in rome and the caesar was deciding whether the fallen gladiator should live or die before the christians ( not the nineties pop band , the other lot ) were herded out into the arena and the malnourished lions were released to feast on blood and gore for the massed ranks of romans sitting in the blazing italian sun eating monkey hearts and sheeps testicles and all the other weird stuff they ate in those times .