History Main / FootballHooligans

** Football hooliganism was so bad in Britain that following the Heysel disaster mentioned above (during which 39 Italian fans died largely as a result of the actions of English hooligans), for five years English teams were no longer permitted to play in European Cup games. In addition the already poor reputation as unruly louts that most British fans had, matters weren't helped by an unpleasant strain of [[MisplacedNationalism bigoted xenophobia]] that such games tended to produce.

** The bitter irony of the whole thing is that to have a deadly crush you don't even ''need'' hooligans -- they happen even when all the fans are perfectly peaceful like in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhniki_disaster Luzhniki disaster]], where all that was needed for a crush that killed ''at least'' sixty seven were the ice on the steps, an untimely goal by the end of an uneventful game, and, again, a failure of the crowd control.

* In the US, similar things occur, but it's more well known with football. Just go to any game [[strike:in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Philadelphia Philadelphia]]]] to see a good example. Or just look at [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-2-2009/clash-of-the-cretins this clip]] from TheDailyShow, which is making fun of it.

** This was quite probably a reference to ''The Rite of Spring'', which actually did have hooligans beating each other and gendarmes called in to quell the riot on its premiere.

--> '''Daphne:''' "Neither did me hooligan brothers."

* ''{{Frasier}}''. Daphne's Mum and Dad met during a soccer riot. She also has experience patching people up, generally from her brothers after a football game.

* ''{{Frasier}}''. Daphne's Mum and Dad met during a soccer riot. It's also heavily implied Daphne's brothers are football hooligans as well.

** The bitter irony of the whole thing is that to have a deadly crush you doesn't even ''need'' hooligans -- they happen even when all the fans are perfectly peaceful like in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhniki_disaster Luzhniki disaster]], where all that was needed for a crush that killed ''at least'' sixty seven were the ice on the steps, an untimely goal by the end of an uneventful game, and, again, a failure of the crowd control.

** The bitter irony of the whole thing is that to have a deadly crush you doesn't even ''need'' hooligans -- they happen even when all the fans are perfectly peaceful like in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhniki_disaster Luzhniki disaster]], where all that was needed for a crush that killed ''at least'' sixty seven were the ice on the steps, an untimely goal by the curtain of an uneventful game, and, again, a failure of the crowd control.

** The Croatian war of independence also arguably started with [[http://bit.ly/aZxjsX a football riot]]. And in a related conflict, the Bosnian war, a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serb_Volunteer_Guard paramilitary Yugoslav group]] consisted of hooligan supporters of Red Star Belgrade.

* Adopted for horse racing in BelisariusSeries. The Greens And The Blues, and their rivalry that culminated in the (in)famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots Nika riots]] that destroyed half of the Constantinople and just barely haven't led to the destruction of Byzantine government at the time, were treated much like modern football hooligans.

* Bernard [[SuicideByCop tries to get beaten up]] by Milwall supporters in the pilot episode of ''BlackBooks''.
--> ''Milwall! That's the one. Do you know this chant; "Milwall, Milwall, you're all really dreadful, and all your girlfriends are unfulfilled and alienated..."''

A soccer supporter who arguably takes the "support" part more seriously than the football. Portrayals (and RealLife examples) tend to range along a sliding scale of criminal behaviour. Some are fans who've gotten drunk and found themselves in a BarBrawl, while others are organised "firms" -- gangs formed on the basis, not of ethnicity or home turf, but of the members' favoured team. Strongly associated with the UK, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism as pointed out]] on TheOtherWiki, prevalent all over the world -- even [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/dec/07/ussport.football within the US]], [[YourMileageMayVary at least according to]] ''[[BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]''. Hooliganism was so rife in 1980's England (for example, contributing to disasters like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_Disaster Heysel]]) that MargaretThatcher formed a "war cabinet" to deal with the problem; ironically, measures put in place to stop it resulted in the tragedy at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster Hillsborough]]. Thankfully, further measures put in place have all but stamped this problem out.

* In the US, similar things occur, but it's more well known with football. Just go to any game [[strike:in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Philadelphia Philadelphia]]]] to see a good example. Or just look at this clip from TheDailyShow, which is making fun of it.

* In the US, similar things occur, but it's more well known with football. Just go to any game [[strike:in [[UsefulNotes/Philadelphia Philadelphia]]]] to see a good example. Or just look at this clip from TheDailyShow, which is making fun of it.

A soccer supporter who arguably takes the "support" part more seriously than the football. Portrayals (and RealLife examples) tend to range along a sliding scale of criminal behaviour. Some are fans who've gotten drunk and found themselves in a BarBrawl, while others are organised "firms" -- gangs formed on the basis, not of ethnicity or home turf, but of the members' favoured team. Strongly associated with the UK, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism as pointed out]] on TheOtherWiki, prevalent all over the world -- even [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/dec/07/ussport.football within the US]], at least according to ''[[BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]''. Hooliganism was so rife in 1980's England (for example, contributing to disasters like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_Disaster Heysel]]) that MargaretThatcher formed a "war cabinet" to deal with the problem; ironically, measures put in place to stop it resulted in the tragedy at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster Hillsborough]]. Thankfully, further measures put in place have all but stamped this problem out.

A soccer supporter who arguably takes the "support" part more seriously than the football. Portrayals (and RealLife examples) tend to range along a sliding scale of criminal behaviour - some are fans who've gotten drunk and found themselves in a BarBrawl, while others are organised "firms" - gangs formed on the basis, not of ethnicity or home turf, but of the members' favoured team. Strongly associated with the UK, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism as pointed out]] on TheOtherWiki, prevalent all over the world. Hooliganism was so rife in 1980's England (for example, contributing to disasters like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_Disaster Heysel]]) that Margaret Thatcher formed a "war cabinet" to deal with the problem; ironically, measures put in place to stop it resulted in the tragedy at Hillsborough. Thankfully further measures put in place have all but stamped this problem out.

* There is a whole game about them named ''Hooligans'', which is a tactical RTS.

* One episode of ''LifeOnMars'' dealt with a murder tied to the upcoming Manchester Derby (City vs. United). At the end, the furious Sam rants at the Perp of the Week about the future of football in England because of hooligans, the fences, the checkups, deaths...
** Specifically, he's talking about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster the Hillsborough Disaster]], where desperate police measures arguably ''contributed'' to the deaths of 96 people when the riot broke out.
*** There was no riot at Hillsborough - you're getting confused with Heysel. The deaths at Hillsborough were caused by failures in crowd control leading to a dangerous crush, and the prevailing mindset that all fans were hooligans meant that a public safety problem was treated as a public order problem. This lead to a crucial delay in getting people out of the crush, and allegedly some of those scaling the fences to escape it were pushed back in.
*** Sam Tyler spells it out - the fences, one of those desperate police measures, existed entirely because of concerns over escalating hooliganism.