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Football hooliganism, also known as soccer hooliganism, [1] football rioting or soccer rioting, constitutes violence and other destructive behaviors perpetrated by spectators at association football events. [1] Football hooliganism typically involves conflict between pseudo-tribes, formed to intimidate and attack supporters of other teams. [2]
In matches using the Video Assistant Referee system, the list also includes entering the video operation room. [1]: Law 12.3 Law 12.3 Serious foul play is a foul committed using excessive force (i.e., "the player has far exceeded the necessary use of force and is in danger of injuring his opponent when challenging for the ball and when it is in ...
John Moynihan in The Soccer Syndrome describes a stroll around the touchline of an empty Goodison Park (Everton's home stadium) on a summer's day in the 1960s. "Walking behind the infamous goal, where they built a barrier to stop objects crunching into visiting goalkeepers, there was a strange feeling of hostility remaining as if the regulars ...
Fan violence at a soccer match in Germany left 79 people injured on Saturday, local police said.
In 1848, students at Cambridge University wrote the first set of rules for the game we know today — a game in which a player used their foot to kick a ball — hence "foot-ball." In 1863 The ...
Among the Thugs: The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence is a 1990 work of journalism by American writer Bill Buford documenting football hooliganism in the United Kingdom. Buford, who lived in the UK at the time, became interested in crowd hooliganism when, on his way home from Cardiff in 1982 he boarded a train that was ...
Fan violence at a soccer match in Germany left 79 people injured on Saturday, local police said. Supporters of FC Carl Zeiss Jena and BSG Chemie Leipzig clashed following the fourth-division match ...
A Dutch court convicted five men Tuesday for their part in last month's violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam that shocked the world and sparked accusations of antisemitism.