Football hooliganism
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Football hooliganism, also known as football rioting, constitutes violence and other destructive behaviors perpetrated by spectators at association football events. Football hooliganism typically invo
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig fans before their team's encounter with SG Dynamo Schwerin in the East German FDGB-Pokal in 1990.
Tottenham Hotspur fans rioting following their defeat in a match against Feyenoord in 1972.
PSG Ultras before a game, using flares and tifos to generate the intended atmosphere.
Czech police suited up in riot gear in preparation for post-match disorder in Brno, April 2008
Beginning in at least the 1960s, the United Kingdom gained a reputation worldwide for football hooliganism; the phenomenon was often dubbed the British or English Disease. However, since the 1980s and
Football hooliganism
…hooliganism in the UK from the 1880s, and from no later than the 1960s the UK had a worldwide reputation for it – the phenomenon was often dubbed the English Disease. John Moynihan in The Soccer Syndrome describes a stroll around an empty Goodison Park touchline on a summer's day in the 1960s. "Walking behind the…
Hooliganism incidents in the 1970s led to fences being built at football grounds, such as this at Kenilworth Road, Luton (1980)
West Yorkshire Police camera system control station at Elland Road, used to identify hooligans and rioters.
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Hibernian supporters show their colours at Edinburgh Waverley railway station (1984)