The social roots of football hooligan violence

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The authors review evidence suggesting that football hooliganism is the product of specific structural conditions. They essay a preliminary conceptualization of the ways in which these conditions generate a violent or aggressive masculine style, and attempt to establish what it is about professional football that has given it a lasting hold on the imaginations of sections of the working class. A tentative explanation of football crowd behaviour is offered which relates long-term changes in rates of disorderliness to specific changes in the class structure and in the social composition of football crowds.

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