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Although the exact definition of hooligans is rather open-ended, it can be characterised as violence toward opposing fans, players, and referee's or destruction of objects inside or around the stadium.
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Although the exact definition of hooligans is rather open-ended, it can be characterised as violence toward opposing fans, players, and referee's or destruction of objects inside or around the stadium. Violent incidents that occur following a game that fans perpetrate is also often considered acts of hooliganism (Soccer-website). The problem of football hooliganism has its roots deep in social development and is associated with aggression and maturation rituals. Furthermore, the media has negatively impacted the problem by publicising, and exaggerating hooligan activities. What we know today as hooliganism began in Britain in the late nineteen-sixties. Riots, field invasions, beatings, and deaths were characterised by the media as "football hooligans," and thus came era of violence to football. Although sporadic violence in football occurred from 1900 to 1960, it was attributed to nothing more than overzealous or drunk fans. In the 1964 soccer season, fan began to take on a rather peculiar...
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