Football Hooligans

Sometimes a rivalry can become intensely heated and it may become violent. In the sport of soccer one of the most anticipated matches of the year is none other than Real Madrid vs Barcelona. These two teams are great teams and are the sport’s biggest rivals. Before the match is played the media heats up the rivalry by reporting that the one team is trash talking or undervaluing the other team. At first it is taken lightly as just a publicity stunt but when the players overhear the news, they get over competitive. When the match is being played there is always physical fights between players and it gets out of hand. Not one of these rival matches has passed that a player doesn’t get ejected from the game. In conclusion, this proves how the media plays a large role on the player’s mentality when going into the game and can also cause them to behave in certain ways.

The culture of soccer is more than just articles written in sport pages, or rumors about players been transferred from one club to another. It includes a bigger picture that covers many different social, political and economic aspects of the game. In countries where the sport is not that relevant, people refer to it as soccer. In others where the sport is very popular and has been around for a long time, it is referred to as football. When it comes to the sport, there are two very different ideas relevant to how people view it. In said countries where soccer is the national sport, the game is viewed as if it can achieve anything; from having just fun with your friends to helping unite people from around the world. In other countries where the sport is not as much popular, the game is seen as boring and is looked down on. This paper will explore how soccer is growing at such a rapid pace despite the fact that it can be viewed as violent and boring.

These negative connotations mean that playing football acquires the label of a deviant act. There are millions of active players in the world today, and the global rate of playing continues to increase. Just imagine what might happen if people started to play it publicly and without considering the opinion and well being of people around them.

A little background behind the movie, Green Street Hooligans, is that's about a college journalist drop out who moves to England to live with his sister but ends up joining one of the firms there, Green Street Elite. Usually firms don't take outsiders that they don't know very well, let alone an American. In this movie, one sees how the fights start during the soccer game and continue even after the game is over and sees how ruthless

“If you constantly have to tell someone the same exact thing about how you feel and they don't change it, understand they don’t respect you” (Unknown). This statement is very well true, and it shows that people need to understand that if a referee doesn’t change his mind as they talk the referees don’t think they are right, and they need to stop talking. In this case, banning unwanted fans should be allowed because they put too much pressure on referees and players.

People always describe soccer with a culture of passionate and active. After watching the video of Heysel tragedy (Lecture Video Week 3), I start doubting the other side of soccer culture. In this week reading, we were asked to read a novel of a story about how the author himself become crazy soccer fans in decades. The more I read, the more I feel the soccer culture has it aggressive and dominant elements. It will bite you badly when you lose your guard and embrace it. Here is a quotation from the book, "Football culture is so amorphous, so unwieldy, so big that it inevitably attracts more than its fair share of fantasists." (Hornby, 61), that I believe it can partly prove my point.

The red background and Liver Bird emblem of Liverpool FC evoke the pride of a city and honour of the fans in their fight against the police and Government for Justice for the Hillsborough victims. This allegiance, by the fans, is represented in the multimodal text of the Banner by way of the colours, imagery, wording or other art form; thus attracting consumer attention to what is being expressed visually. The specific social and cultural role that football plays is influenced by factors which gives a more positive side to football and its passionate supporters. Each Banner contains symbolism which is illustrated by the arts, letters and crimson red colour of Liverpool Football Club."

The aim of this study is to research whether the major clubs in Scottish Football, such as Celtic’s fans would welcome the idea of ‘Safe Standing Zones’ and whether they should be implemented in the Scottish game at all levels.

Choosing this topic was very easy for me to connect with. I’ve been playing soccer, and watching the professionals since I was a little boy. Soccer is a beautiful game that can bring everyone together. However, spectators and participants have been changing how the game is decided. These so called fans that go to games have been bringing in racism to make the players feel unstable mentally. The players that mostly receive this racism is men of color. The fans are hoping that the players will lash out or possibly bring down their performance, so that their team will win. So while researching this topic it has shown me how different players deal with this. Although most of the players have admitted that at first they would pretend they didn’t hear it or it didn’t happen. However, now these players have been speaking out to get the attention of the spectators, but also the soccer organizations. That in football is no place to accept this harsh discrimination, and these players have been showing different ways on how they are protesting against this. In Europe they call soccer something else, which is football.

The scope of sports related disputes have been held in low esteem by several criticizers of the success of the CAS. Critics have seem to forgotten that sports arouses the deepest emotions in the ardent fans irrespective of the kind of game being played. A few noticeable examples of such are the numerous clashes between fans during the local derby between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal in India, the Heysel Stadium Disaster in which close to 50 spectators lost their lives as well as upwards of 600 spectators were injured due to a stampede caused by unruly fans in Brussels, Belgiumin 1985 and lastly the actions of angry fans beheading a referee in an act of revenge for giving an incorrect decision during a match in Brazil . In short, cynics are simply mistaken when they denigrate the importance of sports. Sports can inspire our passions, capture our hopes and give us a reason to dream

The prevalence of violence in sports is not simply a modern American problem. There has probably never been a society anywhere on earth without some degree of sports-related interpersonal violence. Roman gladiators, many of whom were volunteers, risked death every time they stepped into the arena. The ritual ball games of Aztec and Mayan culture ended in human sacrifice. The chariot races of ancient Constantinople were accompanied by spectator violence that, on one occasion, left 30,000 dead. The brutal and obscene behavior of English “football hooligans” has become legendary. To explain the apparently universal occurrence of some degree of sports-related violence, we need to look beyond the American military and the modern corporation (Allen). According to Silva (1981), aggressive behavior is an overt verbal or physical act that can psychologically or physically injure another person or oneself. The aggressive behavior must be non-accidental and done with the intent of injuring the opponent. Aggression can be divided in two different categories according to Buss (1961). Hostile aggression and instrumental aggression are differentiated based on the intention of the aggressor and the primary reinforcement sought by the acts. For individuals engaged in hostile aggression, the primary goal is to inflict injury to another human being; the intent is to make the victim suffer. Individuals engaged in instrumental aggression also

Unraveling through undercover footage, a minority group of English fans were chanting xenophobic chants against other European nations and Muslims. It should be no surprise that to anyone following world politics noticing the strong support for these types of actions. Though this is not an action being done by the player rather the sport, it is still unacceptable that these fans are permitted to even be a part of a fun event which promotes bringing together all of Europe for fun, competitive games of soccer.

Given its recent history of anti-racist activity, English football is often cited as a figurehead example of challenging racism through popular culture and

Football hooliganism is far more than simple violent incidents in football games. It is a very deleterious phenomenon that affects the reputation of all sports, especially the football sector as well as it negatively affects the society. As Rogers (2016) proclaims, “Hooliganism is soccer’s greatest scourge, one that appeared to have been largely cosigned to the past but still ready to appear, like a snake, when the conditions are right” (para.12). Hooliganism is not an outdated phenomenon. It is still until today causing disastrous incidents, human losses, injuries, growing fanaticism and hatred, and destruction of properties of the nation. In fact, most of these aspects can even affect the people in the society who are not interested in or part of the football game. Hooliganism behaviors involve rioting, clashing vandalism,

This essay aims to unveil the opinions, thoughts and perceptions of Greek fans as far as the causes of violent incidents in the Greek football league are concerned. In the first part of this research project some theoretical considerations about determinants of violence, crime and delinquency in general and in sports are being analysed.