The Effects Of Football Hooliganism

A football game is not about sitting and quietly watching the game while eating hotdogs and peanuts… it is a wild fiasco! The fans dress up in costumes and their team colors, they paint their faces and bodies and sing songs in unison about their team. The stadiums are gigantic and chaotic. The Maracana Stadium in Brazil is usually filled up to it’s capacity with 220,000 screaming fans. Once, many Brazilian fans fainted in the stands when they lost to Uruguay. The popularity of this sport also has it’s downsides. It has even been deadly. For instance, in 1969 the qualifying games between El Salvador and Honduras caused a war between the 2 countries. There had been conflict between the countries, but things boiled over when they clashed on the playing field, sparking a full-scale war that lasted 2 weeks.

However, soccer sometimes has negative impacts on individuals taking part in the game as spectators or players. Soccer makes a number of individuals intolerant and this intolerance could cause disturbances to other participants in the game. Hooliganism is one of the most popular form of intolerance in the game of soccer where fans from the opposing sides in most instances get into physical confrontations resulting in injuries and in worse cases, deaths. An example was when Egypt faced Algeria in an African Nations Cup tournament where Algerian fans got down into the pitch and engaged the Egyptian fans in a physical fight which left several people dead. These physical fights are not only limited to the fans but the soccer players as well. Many instances have been reported of players getting into physical confrontations with the members of the opposing team (Huggins, 2007). This has resulted in the development of more stringent rules to reduce such incidences. This is evidence of how the popular culture that is soccer elicits emotions among the participant of the game.

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.

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

In the article “Is it Immoral to Watch the Superbowl?”, the author, Steve Almond states that zealous fandom for football, supports player injury. If true, fans should reconsider supporting this industry. He focuses on the dangers of football, sharing personal stories of football players whose lives were forever changed by the love of the game. Meanwhile, he makes the interesting point of how fans’ utter “worship” of this sport that has forced us to turn a blind eye to the true “pathologies” football possesses. He then goes on to state that football has contorted our view of war into war is a “winnable contest”, and has served as a distraction from the wars.

Since open masculinity was a central idea within soccer fans, soccer hooliganism took place. Hooligans are groups of soccer supporters who travel together with the purpose not to cheer for their respective team, but to threaten, intimidate and assault supporters of other teams. Occasionally, hooliganism is likely to be more severe when there is a game between teams with long-standing rivalries, which are in most cases, teams from the same city. Disputes may take place at any time during game day, even though hooligans often meet in locations away from the stadium to avoid arrest. This soccer violence is related to

This article comes in response to riots observed following soccer matches in South America, as well as violent occurrences in British soccer matches and following boxing matches at Madison Square Garden. A study was performed to assess hostility among sports fans before and after watching a game. Following similar laboratory experiments where subjects were shown violent images and were found to feel increased feelings of aggressiveness, it was theorized that observing aggressive sports might cause increased aggressiveness in sports spectators. The study was supported by a research grant from Temple University and used paid interviewers who interviewed male subjects going in to and coming out of an Army-Navy football game. This particular match was chosen because it was not being played on either team’s home field. The same interviews were conducted at a gymnastics meet to be used as a control group. Results of the study show that feelings of hostility significantly increased in subjects following the football game regardless of whether the team favored won or lost.

Fans are cheering. Time is running out. Forty seven minutes and seventeen seconds of playing time has flew by. The team is tired, fatigued, but hungry for this win, but my offense has been running up and down the field scoring points like we are running suicides on a hard day of practice. This game has been all about the offense; just seeing who can score the most points until the clock runs out. On each possession every time my line got down in a three point stance we knew we were going to score a touchdown. Defense lined up in a three-three box; that makes it to where I have the lineman head up on me and two other lineman head up on my tackles. Wesclin defenses who was the team we were facing and their record at the time was (6-0) while the

As noted in Gaming the World: How Sports are reshaping Global Politics and Culture soccer is not simply a game played by millions but rather a language spoken by all. Soccer connects the human race in ways not many things can. The sport has contributed to societal reform and political action worldwide. As mentioned throughout chapter one sports in general have become monstrous influences worldwide due to their power to bring individuals together. Political figures readily attend games and it is clear that soccer plays a part in social climate in almost every nation worldwide. Figures such as Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham have drawn fans from opposing ends of the earth to common ground within soccer. (Ch. 1, pg. 4) Naturally within the culture

"These people want to hurt you. It 's frightening. You feel like you 're in a cage out there". Reggie Smith, (Berger, 1990). Spectator violence at sporting events has been recorded throughout history. People who have power over the events, often team owners, indirectly influence the amount of spectator violence by encouraging the factors contributing to violence, in order to benefit themselves. Sale of alcohol, encouraging crowd intensity, creating rivalries, and targeting social groups, are factors affecting the degree of spectator violence and can be proven to be influenced by the owner 's actions. Therefore the blame for spectator violence can be attributed to whoever has power over the sport.

With more than a billion watchers yearly, football is the biggest spectator sport on the planet. The popularity of football is based on the competitive nature of the game and the idea of being a fan. In addition to cheering for their team, fans inside or outside the stadium have a great deal to express. Football is seen by many as a stage to express their national personality, political association, ethnic pride, and religious belongings. This gives Football numerous qualities that make it something beyond a game to many. The symbolism of football clubs, players, and colors can mean for the fans a close feeling of having a place and personality. Also they are crystallized by the economic, social and political settings that surround communities associated with Football.

Why have sports become a source of anger, divisiveness, and violence? Although sports fans wield the power to grow and popularize a sport, they can also prove to be severely detrimental towards a sport. Whether it's deterring a potential fan from following a particular team or inciting violence among fans, the deplorable behavior of various groups of sports fans has caused sports leagues to take preventative measures to ensure the safety and well being of both fans and athletes. Sporting arenas, establishments that televise sporting events, and the internet have all succumbed to the horrendous actions perpetrated by these fans. Furthermore, the hostile behavior of the worst sports fan hijack the rich cultural exchange and camaraderie that comes from sports. Understanding the behaviors of the worst sports fans, will assist people in recognizing which fans they should avoid.

Although there can be some bickering between supporters supporting their team. Football is a worldwide sport and very competitive and some fans can get too excited. There are cases of violence over football between different fans supporting different teams and not liking what the other one does. In the Euro's last year a The france national team supporters clashed with the English national team supporters before and after the match. Many people got seriously injured.

Football is known as the most violent sport on and off the field, between fans, coaches, teammates and/or rivals. If a player on the field is conflicting with another player they should be playing against it is common sense that the rest of the team will then jump in and make the conflict bigger than it already is. If a fight occurs on the football field an ejection is brought about the situation, meaning that player will be brought out of the game for the rest of the remaining quarter and/or rest of the game. It is against sports rules to physically assault another teammate in anyway, this could be related to the sport Soccer. On the soccer field if you purposely attempt to hurt another player and you succeed you will then get red carded and be suspended for 3 games, if it isn't intentional you will receive a yellow card as a “warning” card.

This essay will try to gain an insight into the deviant acts of football hooliganism, the many theorist views on why it occurs and the impact it has on those who partake in it. How society is affected and the way in which it deals with the problem. We will try to understand the Medias obsession with it and how they often play an important part on its social and economical effects of society. To fully understand these phenomena we need to look at the profile of a football hooligan and answer the vital question: ‘Who are they and why do they do it?