Hooliganism - the real sport behind football? Reviews

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 for ...

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 was ...

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 anymore ...

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, last ...

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 serving up ...

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 kitchen sink ...

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 reputation ...

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 the ...

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 tell ...

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 England match ...

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 where I was on ...

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 horrific ...

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 happened” I ...

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 opening day. ...

Football hooiganism is a fact of life, it is not new it is not funny but the massive over reaction by some people and the press just feeds the myth of rampaging youth destroying this green and pleasant land. I have been caught up in many a situation from which I have needed to extract myself somewhat rapidly and several of these have involved the ...

I have the misfortune of living in Swindon, and during my years here I have witnessed some appalling acts of hooliganism. Let me first concentrate on the hooliganism at the ground. One match I attended involves Reading and Swindon (at Swindon). The away fans were marched into a somewhat full car park at approximately 2.30pm in ...

“Here we go, here we go, here we go.” Ah yes, that all too familiar chant will soon be echoing around football stadiums the length and breadth of the country as the new football season kicks off. Well, kicks off in the traditional sense anyway, because anyone unfortunate enough to have seen the scenes following ...

Ever since I was young, I have attended football matches. For many of the years I attended, however, my experiences have been blighted by fan violence. There was a period when the problem of football hooliganism seemed to have disappeared, but for the occasional scuffle at a high-profile match. In the summer, however, at Euro 2000, we were given a ...

The Korean media recently featured the training of a specialist hooligan police force set up for next year's World Cup(the fans who were involved in the mock hooligan clashes were carrying Union Jacks). The officers were picked on the basis of their experience in handling the violent labour/student demonstrations and also for their Taekwondo ...

Suppose that, around the middle of the last-century-but-one, you had been a rich man in a British city against which you had a serious grudge. What would you do? Setting fire to the Town Hall would be fun, but over too quickly, and poisoning a nearby reservoir would be good, but not nearly permanent either. You had a grudge that wanted to give and ...