Football hooliganism, known as soccer hooliganism, football riot or soccer riot, constitutes violence and other destructive behaviours perpetrated by spectators at association football events.
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20 Facts About Football hooliganism
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Football hooliganism normally involves conflict between gangs, in English known as football firms, formed to intimidate and attack supporters of other teams.
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Certain clubs have long-standing rivalries with other clubs and hooliganism associated with matches between them is likely to be more severe.
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In 1905, a number of Preston fans were tried for Football hooliganism, including a "drunk and disorderly" 70-year-old woman, following their match against Blackburn Rovers.
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Football hooliganism has factors in common with juvenile delinquency and what has been called "ritualized male violence".
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Football hooliganism has moved on thanks to banning orders and better, more sophisticated policing.
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The director-general of the French police, Michel Gaudin, insisted that measures against football hooliganism had reduced racist incidents to six that season from nineteen in the previous season.
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The word "Football hooliganism" was recorded at the early '60s where Greek students in the UK who had experienced the phenomenon of Football hooliganism there first taught the term to the journalists who were unable to explain why the fans were fighting each other and gave this situation a name.
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Football hooliganism has become prevalent in Russia since the beginning of the 2000s.
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However, the Turkish Football Federation has tightened security to try to contain the hooliganism.
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In 2006, the Turkish Football Federation introduced new measures to combat the threat of hooliganism and have made new regulations that allow the Professional Football Disciplinary Board to fine clubs up to YTL 250,000 for their fans' behavior.
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Football hooliganism revealed that his team's players had received death threats before the match.
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Football hooliganism was said to have been admitted to Royal Liverpool University Hospital with a fractured cheekbone and trauma to one eye.
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Football hooliganism 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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However, football and other sports hooliganism overall is rare in the United States in part because of stricter legal penalties for vandalism and physical violence, club markets having their own territory of fans, venues banning weapons, stricter security during games, and a stronger taboo on politics, class, race, and religion into the American sporting culture.
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In November 2007 the Israel Football hooliganism 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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The Libyan Football hooliganism Association were fined $7,000 by the disciplinary commission of the Confederation of African Football hooliganism.
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Since the formation of the A-League in 2004, and the fall of the National Soccer League, football hooliganism has died off in competitions and incidents have become rare events.
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Football hooliganism has been depicted in films such as The Firm, ID, EuroTrip, Cass, The Football Factory, Green Street, Rise of the Footsoldier and Awaydays.
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Soccer Football hooliganism has been depicted in You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee, an episode of The Simpsons.
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