The term Hooliganism refers to unruly and destructive behavior associated with sports fans, particularly supporters of professional football and university sports. One case of hooliganism appears in England and the English football fans are known to represent a danger for foreigners who come to support their favorite teams. Some foreigners do tremble when hearing the words of ‘hooligans’ or ‘hooliganism’ as English supporters use to be violent, destructive and use threatening against foreigner supporters.
Anyway, hooliganism is not only found in England but in other countries, too where violence at football matches is a serious problem. For example, in 1964, over 300 people were killed and more than 1000 people were injured when fans from Peru and Argentina started
fighting. Then, in 1985, in Brussels, Belgium, 38 people were killed and more than 200 were injured fighting started between fans of the Liverpool (England) and Juventus (Italy) teams. As a result of that, England was not allowed in European football matches for five years.
On the other hand, not only football supporters from two opposed teams start to quarrel but also fans from different teams in the same country. There are cases when there is a great hatred between fans and the reasons of this behaviour cannot be easily explained: it can be alcohol, xenophobia or a psychological make-up that make hooligans react like that.
Can we consider hooliganism a serious problem? Well, if we were to think about all the people who were injured or who died we could consider it a big problem. But it is however more important to stop this form of protest in football even though all manner of legal means and policing tactics have been tried to control hooliganism, including deterrent sentencing or legislation. It happened that all these means worsen the attitude of supporters and even create an increasingly confrontational attitude between fans and police.
To conclude, we can see hooliganism as a very important source of sensationalist information for the mass-media and especially the tabloid press in England, which catches the most spectacular events and of major interest for the readers, using powerful headlines grounded in violent imagery and war metaphors.
Hooliganism and Football Hooligans written by Cristina Nuta for FamousWhy.com
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