14 Facts About Football hooligan

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Football hooligan has moved on thanks to banning orders and better, more sophisticated policing.

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Police and civil authorities in various countries with Football hooligan problems have taken a number of measures, including:.

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3.

Many Croatian Football hooligan groups have displayed Nazi flags at matches and have neo-nazi skinheads in their ranks.

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On 19 September 2008 a Serbian football hooligan was sentenced to ten years in jail for an attack against a police officer at a Red Star Belgrade–Hajduk Kula game.

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In 1998, Aitor Zabaleta, a supporter of Real Sociedad, was killed by an Atletico Madrid Football hooligan who was linked to a neo-Nazi group, just before a match between these two teams.

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Hooliganism in Sweden became a growing problem in the 1980s, but pitch invasions and violence at football grounds decreased in the late 1990s, when hooligan firms started pre-arranging their fights away from the grounds and the regular supporters.

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Seven clubs that have large organised hooligan firms are AIK, IFK Goteborg Djurgardens IF Hammarby IF Malmo FF GAIS and Helsingborgs IF, though several other football, bandy and ice hockey clubs have active hooligan followings.

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In Switzerland, Football hooligan incidents are rare due to the fact that the stadiums are small.

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However, the Turkish Football Federation has tightened security to try to contain the hooliganism.

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Football hooligan revealed that his team's players had received death threats before the match.

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11.

Football hooligan was said to have been admitted to Royal Liverpool University Hospital with a fractured cheekbone and trauma to one eye.

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12.

Football hooligan War, known as the Soccer War or 100 Hour War, was a brief war fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969.

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Also in the same year on 8 September 2015, the FIFA World Cup qualification match between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia was abandoned after Malaysian Football hooligan supporters disrupted the match and attacked Saudi supporters.

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In November 2007 the Israel Football hooligan Association ordered Beitar to play their game against the Arab club, Bnei Sakhnin behind closed doors after Beitar fans, led by La Familia, broke a minute's silence for former Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin and sang chants in praise of his assassin, Yigal Amir.

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