When football came about, the matches would involve hundreds of players, and were ultimately just battles between rival villages or towns that used a ball in the form of a leather-bound inflated pig’s bladder. They mostly used ‘football’ as an opportunity to settle their disputes. As early as the 14th century there were requests for the game to be controlled. Football would drive ordinary citizens away from the market towns on match days, causing loss of business. The numerous arrests held none of the hooligans back, and so the games continued. By 1660, there were fifteen more

The fighting between fans has come to an astonishing level. In March 1997, there was a rivalry in Holland (Amsterdam and Rotterdam). The rivalry was so strong that they actually set a date to go and fight on a day that a game wasn’t even being played. The fight was only to show which team had the “best fans” which resulted in one death and many injuries. A lot of disturbance arose due to the fact that one man had died over such a fight. Due to this fight, the following year the fans weren’t allowed to watch the game in the stadium in order to reflect upon their actions. For years now, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists have been trying to determine what it is that fuels hooligans. Few explanations develop which include: “the

where bans were even issued. “In 1829, a Frenchman who saw a football match in Derby asked ‘If this is what they call football, what do they call fighting’”(Dunning, 1970) “…the enemy tripped, shinned, charged with the shoulder, got you down and sat upon you…in fact might do anything short of murder to get the ball from you.”(Carnibella, 20)

The authorities are trying to control Hooligans as best as possible. In one case, the fans got so out of control that they were deported back to their countries and others held in large cells that contained hundreds of fans. Many of these fans appeared in court on criminal charges from causing injury to inciting violence, and vandalism. The hooligans are known to throw wh

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