Football Hooliganism

A British website called Politic.co.uk, reports at length on "hooliganism", the term used broadly to describe disorderly, aggressive and often violent behaviour perpetrated by spectators at sporting events. In the UK, hooliganism is almost exclusively confined to football.

Without saying so in so many words, politics.co.uk describes today's hooligans as violent smart mobs.

"Today, in contrast to the more or less spontaneous upsurges of violence of the past, gangs of rival fans will frequently arrange to meet at specific locations, using mobile phones or the Internet, before and after matches to fight".

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