Hooliganism - the real sport behind football? Reviews

Whilst middle England were assembling a secret climate camp in Blackheath for their annual get-together the traditional working-class were assembling at the West Ham V Millwall game for what they do best. We all enjoy meeting up with our piers or people we enjoy the company off and the camaraderie is often the excuse for the event and ...  Read the complete review

Football Hooliganism was a big problem in the game mainly in the 1970's and 80's but it has not really been a big problem since I have been following the game. I have only really properly followed the game since 1994 as I am still relatively young. I have been to quite a few football matches but not to any matches that could be really ...  Read the complete review

I'm a Sheffield United supporter and I'm what I'd call a "proper" football fan - I go to the matches and I follow my team home and away across the length and breadth of the country, rather than simply sitting at home watching Sky Sports. I've had a season ticket for 19 years, been to 60 different football grounds and attended ...  Read the complete review

As I listen to live radio commentary of Leeds United v Millwall , two of Britains clubs with arguably the most notorious hooligan rivalry . I thought I would express my views on hooliganism in sport . We can all talk about stories all day long of 'our firm are better than yours' or what you have witnessed in your time . A vast majority ...  Read the complete review

Football hooliganism, i've never understood why people would big this up at all, having studied Sociology I understand tribalism and why people feel such a protective feeling of their football team and the need to bond and identify with others, thats fine, so what they should do like the vast majority of football fans is support their ...  Read the complete review

As most people are aware England used to be the worst country for football hooliganism in the world. It has now carmed down alot in England but other countries have taken over e.g Dinamo Zagreb v Hajduk Split derby, their is violence at that game plus a number of other high intensity rivalries especially in eastern europe. Brazil and ...  Read the complete review

I can vividly recall strolling along the side of the football ground as a throng of Sheffield United fans charged from the other direction hurling house bricks along the way. I was 11 at the time and pretty scared at what was unfolding. This was the 70's and soccer had been singled out for hooligans to treat match days as their venue ...  Read the complete review

Ok, just for start off i will give you my background. I come from a large Norv'en Market town from a family that when broken down decades come fr0om all over north and Ireland ( Unfortuantly). I was brought up in quite a well off part of this town, with my dad a chartered accountant, mum a nurse and my sister gaining many A-levels. I ...  Read the complete review

The supposed English disease of Hooliganism, is always hyped up in the Media with such documentaries as the one on BBC2 leading up to the World Cup, or the Undercover expose of the Chelsea Headhunters by some muppet of an Irish fella. The fact is, the old bill are now on top of any such acts and very few "rows" happen ...  Read the complete review

As many of you know I enjoy my football. Not old enough to properly remember the seventies when hooliganism was commonplace in the game I have been shocked by the level of violence that I have seen rising. I want to recount a personal experience of hooliganism and hatred that I experienced personally. To set the scene, ...  Read the complete review

I'm sick of the constant rhetoric being trotted out about football hooligans and since this has resurfaced follwoing what happened at Cardiff last weekend and at Chelsea last night,I want everyone to shut up and pay attention to this. For a start, people who have never been to a football match and who are ...  Read the complete review

I remember policing my first football match at Millwall and it was one of the most frightening days of my career. All the hate on the fans faces towards me and the away fans will stay with me for along time.In those days and before you would see iron bars and half bricks going over into the away end followed by lumps of pitch and the ...  Read the complete review

The recent events at Ninian Park between Leeds United and Cardiff City have brought back bad memories of crowd trouble, hooliganism and other troubles that have plagued football in recent times, and something people inside the game have worked so hard to eradicate. It did bring back bad memories, particularly with the slightly tarnished ...  Read the complete review

Hooliganism has got to be the most piontless thing to be associated to football. But it always makes headlines when it occurs. Just recently Cardiff City have made dragged up the subject of Violence in football. The media, organisors and supporters and trying to understand why Cardiff City fans went on the rampage after beating one of ...  Read the complete review

i have been mainly talking about wrestling in these op's so i thought i would write about something else which is dear to m heart MILLWALL i hope you like it PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE SOME STRONG THINGS IN HERE NO SWEARING BUT STRONG NONE THE LESS HOOLIGANS When I ...  Read the complete review

What have they done to football? The focus of World Cups and European Championships seem to be on hooliganism. Why is it that England fans are the only 'rioters,' the trouble makers that everyone should watch out for? I went to the World cup 98 when I was 17. I never knew what i was in for though. On the eve of the ...  Read the complete review

I am a Newcastle United supporter who has been a regular attender of home and away matches for about 14 years or so. Consequently, I have been to a lot of league grounds over the years, whilst United have predominantly been in the old second division, and more recently, in the top division. I think I have also been to enough matches ...  Read the complete review

Football's a game, a very good game, which provides people with entertainment and is a way of life for so many people. Unfortuanetley football is associated with acts of violence between sets of supporters. In my opinion it's not such a major problem as many people would think. I'll tell you why. Of course it's a ...  Read the complete review

Football townies rejoice Let face it ,riots, predjurdest, racism and attacks a lot of these spawn from foot ball, I really hate football now I used to like it but now the townies think its theres and they own it. Coming back from skateboarding at nights, riots in the street stop and some times injure us. “What ...  Read the complete review

It’s the stigma of hooliganism that is costing the small teams like Northampton a lot of money. Not only is the police bill big, but they slap an all ticket injunction on the bigger games stopping on the gate punters, once the life blood of football from paying and turning up one match day. It cost us 1500 fans on the ...  Read the complete review