Football Hooliganism Steve Frosdick, Peter Marsh

Football has been associated with violence ever since its early beginnings in thirteenth-century England. The original 'folk' form of the game, most often played on Shrove Tuesdays and other Holy Days, involved only slightly structured battles between the youth or neighbouring villages and towns. The presence of the ball, in the form of a leather bound inflated pigs bladder, was almost incidntal to this opportunity for settling old scores, lad disputes, and engaging in 'manly', tribal aggression.



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