FUN FACT 1 - if it wasn't for "hooligans", a fair number of clubs would have gone to the wall in the 70s/80s.
FUN FACT 2 - if "hooligans" made a return, we might see the end of the gentrification bullshit, and the foreign owner parasites in the game.
Fights have always been part of traditional football culture. Dating back to Medieval times when the pitch was a mile long, with a stream in the middle. And during the modern era, you either chose to join in, or not.
As a little kid, or as an adult, I could walk right thro the thick of it, and the only time I'd get any is if I outwardly expressed a huge desire to kick off.
Completely UNLIKE the situation in places like Italy or France, where some coward would try and stab an old lady for wearing away colours. Or a scummy Spanish cop would truncheon a 10 yr old boy on the head.
Yet WE were the ones who got a huge Euro ban....
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