What is soccer hooliganism 14 Articles

by Aldo Bonincontro

For what is the meaning of this word for me, it indicates a real criminal or potentially criminal plague that could kill the soccer world, as it's happening to the Italian soccer. Here, the hooligans are called ULTRAS, ...read more

by Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

Football or Soccer Hooliganism can be defined as what has affected Avram Grant and his wife. The ways to stop Football or Soccer Hooliganism can be defined in the way Thierry Henry has been dealing with the cancer that eat...read more

by Ethel Smith

Soccer hooliganism is the scourge of soccer today and has been for quite some time. There has always been some forms of Hooliganism but, in football, it seemed to start in the late sixties and reach the press by the 1970's...read more

by ktarcus

A lot has been written about soccer hooligans in the media in the past. Most articles concentrate on the violence of a small section of soccer supporters,be they followers of club or country. What it shows to me is the g...read more

by Costas Chryanthou

Hooliganism is an unacceptable face of soccer and perhaps indeed any sport. Though in soccer historically speaking a small number of fans have made their unwanted feelings and opinions known by engaging in hooliganism. ...read more

by Ryan Brigdale

Since I have been a young child I have had the pleasure of following my beloved team through the ranks of the football league up into the premiership, without ever witnessing football hooliganism upon a large scale. The...read more

by Graham Fisher

I started going to football matches in 1968. This was shortly before the disease of football hooliganism in England became an epidemic. I went to Watford matches at home and away. Throughout the seventies I saw much violen...read more

by Paul Curtis

DE BUGGING There was an incident that occurred one Sunday morning in 2005 in Worthing Sussex. It was during a Sunday morning football match between two potbellied pub teams made up of the usual mix of the overweight, t...read more

by Paul O Meara

The 'Firm' and the 'Ultras' are some of names applied to a section of a clubs supporters who are called hooligans by the general media. As I see it there are two types of hooliganism. There is the organized type, which inv...read more

by Nicole Hawley

Today, it is anybody that attends a sports match to start a fight, not watch the game. It is normally applied to football fans who "go on the rampage", "ran amuck", were guilty of "thuggish behaviour", or "caused mayhem". ...read more

by Darian Peters

Soccer hooliganism is the catch all term used by the media to describe the damage and violence of young thugs who happen to use support for a particular soccer team as an excuse to cause trouble. This trouble can go fr...read more

by Jon Eccles

Soccer hooliganism is a catch all name for violent or destructive behaviour in or around grounds, and associated with fans. It started in the UK in the late sixties, reached a peak in the Eighties and has been falling a...read more

by Kenneth Schortgen Jr

Soccer Hooliganism is a the result of the shrinking group of nationalists who cannot rail against another nation in war and conquest, but are relegated to exhibiting the same antics of their countrymen who lived by the sam...read more

by Prodigal Samurai

Soccer hooliganism generally refers to the irrational or 'wild' behavior of soccer supporters (occurs particularly with the younger crowds). They achieve this hooliganism by dressing in vibrant colored clothing (consistent...read more