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Critically assess the need for the control measures applied to football fans to be applied to other sports.
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- Mon Jun 19 2006

... Spectator Violence Critically assess the need for the control measures applied to football fans to be applied to other sports. The measures, through legislation, which are in place to control football crowds have developed over many years and in the main, have come about because of the sports controlling interests inability or lack of desire to exercise the measures voluntarily. As early as 1969, in the Lang Report, it was recommended that standing terraces be replaced by seating and that offenders should be required to report on subsequent match days at a place away from the ground (Carnibella G., Fox A., Fox K., McCann J., Marsh J., Marsh P, 1996). The report also recognised the influence the players behaviour has on the behaviour of the crowd, in stating that there should be universal acceptance of the referee's decisions In 1985, the Council of Europe published the 'European Convention on Spectator Violence and














