There is a wide array of explanations for football hooliganism moving beyond the argument that ‘football hooligans fight over football issues’. This essay analyses and synthesises the main theoretical perspectives‚ focussing especially on social histories‚ youth culture and class. It suggests that the best explanation consists of a combined theoretical perspective. There are many theories attempting to explain football hooliganism‚ but from a certain‚ reductionist perspective it requires only one
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cities and football authorities have threatened to expel the English team from the competition if there is another outbreak of the English Disease" This was an article dated 20 June 2000 written by an English journalist. It is obvious from this article that world is facing a great problem nowadays. Actually it would be wrong to use the term nowadays ’ because the English Disease ’ namely hooliganism have been a problem for many centuries. There are many things to say on hooliganism but first
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Table of contents Introduction: Hooliganism has for decades been a social problem in the UK without any clarification on what the phenomenon is really all about. In this paper we will research football hooliganism in the UK. We will start defining a hooligan and give a brief historical review of the subculture. Then we will look in to what is actively done to prevent disorder at football matches. At last we are going to analyse the influence from the media.
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What is the best way of explaining football hooliganism? “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred‚ jealousy‚ boastfulness‚ disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting." (Oswell‚ 1945) The best way to explain football hooliganism is to perceive it in the same context as war. Like war‚ football hooliganism has different factors that all contribute to the overall goal. Although the
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Hooliganism in sports INTRODUCTION Sport related violence or hooliganism is a large problem in many countries‚ numerous incidents in eg. Italy‚ France‚ Greece and etc have ended in severe injuries and deaths. The word hooliganism and hooligan is associated with violence in sports particularly from 1970s in UK with the game of football. The term hooliganism means wilful and malicious destruction of the property of others the phenomenon‚ however‚ long preceded the modern term; for example‚
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Hooliganism Traditionally football hooliganism started around the late 1960’s and clearly peaked in the mid 1980 before having a big cooling off just after the Heysel stadium disaster in Italy where no less than 39 nine Juventus fans were killed in an on-stadium riot. Although to the world‚ hooligans are seen as obscene violent people‚ by digging into what hooliganism really is you find that there is much more to this “culture” than an eye glance of a violent newspaper article can really tell
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The impacts of hooliganism on our society Firstly‚ we started discussing the topic of hooliganism throughout the world and also in our country. We have watched many videos on the Internet‚ investigated further and interviewed many people all around the world with many different perspectives. Furthermore we paid attention to the problems that hooligans make and imposed different solutions to this problem. But first of all we answered questions we had primarily stated in project plan so we can understand
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Hooliganism Hooliganism is a way to act under football matches‚ it’s a group of people‚ fighting other groups just like them self. They mean that they do it for loyalty honor‚ and for their football club‚ but I’m very sure that the only reason they fight is to fight‚ it doesn’t makes sense but it’s the way it is. It sounds like these hooligans are stupid individuals who think very primitive‚ but actually is many of the hooligans full functional at their work and in the society‚ except when their
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Football Violence in Britain Football hooliganism is increasing in Scotland‚ but in the 80s that’s when football violence was at its worse. Over the past years it has being increasing in vast numbers of football thugs from different cities and whenever there team play they travel to the game and after hoping for a fight with the opposite firm. The first recorded incident of a large scale crowd fight was in 1909 with Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers. Scotland’s first organised firm was Aberdeen
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The Football Factory The Film The movie follows the main character Tommy Johnsson (Danny Dyer) through his years as a member of the Chelsea Headhunters‚ a group that consist of Chelseas most violent supporters. Other important persons in the movie is Tommys hooligan friends Rod‚ Billy‚ Zeberdee and Raf. They are all unemployed and spend their days smoking‚ drinking‚ fighting and doing drugs. Every weekend they got a football match to attend. They follow Chelsea wherever they play‚ home or
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