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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 615057" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Maybe the imported Football hooligans bring their violence with them. In Britain, football violence is nowhere near as bad as it used to be, largely due to the realisation by policing authorities that sticking several hundred policemen in a stadium simply makes them target and encourages confrontation. These days most EPL matches are played with only a few policemen present inside the stadium. Matches usually finish without any arrests (the average is way less than one per match over the whole season. </p><p></p><p>Have a read of this article about the soccer hooliganism of the 1980's. Its worth the 10 minutes or so to read all of it.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://au.askmen.com/sports/fanatic/football-hooligans.html" target="_blank">http://au.askmen.com/sports/fanatic/football-hooligans.html</a></p><p></p><p>NOTE: Actually, we should be careful to distinguish between football "fans" and football "hooligans". True football supporters would not normally have a bar of the violence, but Football Hooligans were a different matter. They simply used Football as a vehicle for their violence. Many of them were organised groups (known as "Firms"), and in many cases, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwall_Bushwackers" target="_blank">Bushwhackers (Millwall)</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Headhunters" target="_blank">Headhunters (Chelsea)</a> they actually stayed in touch with each other so that they could pre-arrange rumbles!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 615057, member: 20605"] Maybe the imported Football hooligans bring their violence with them. In Britain, football violence is nowhere near as bad as it used to be, largely due to the realisation by policing authorities that sticking several hundred policemen in a stadium simply makes them target and encourages confrontation. These days most EPL matches are played with only a few policemen present inside the stadium. Matches usually finish without any arrests (the average is way less than one per match over the whole season. Have a read of this article about the soccer hooliganism of the 1980's. Its worth the 10 minutes or so to read all of it. [URL]http://au.askmen.com/sports/fanatic/football-hooligans.html[/URL] NOTE: Actually, we should be careful to distinguish between football "fans" and football "hooligans". True football supporters would not normally have a bar of the violence, but Football Hooligans were a different matter. They simply used Football as a vehicle for their violence. Many of them were organised groups (known as "Firms"), and in many cases, such as the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwall_Bushwackers"]Bushwhackers (Millwall)[/URL] and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Headhunters"]Headhunters (Chelsea)[/URL] they actually stayed in touch with each other so that they could pre-arrange rumbles!! [/QUOTE]
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