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The timing could not have been worse for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Days before UK authorities had appeared set to lift a ban on their fans attending their Europa League game at Aston Villa, their derby ...

MOSCOW (AP) A Russian lawmaker has proposed an unorthodox solution to the country's problems with soccer hooliganism ahead of next year's World Cup - legalize it and make it a spectator sport.

As World Cup fever sets in, increased hooliganism and soccer (football) related violence are legitimate international concerns. Previous research has linked sports-related hooliganism to 'social ...

As unlikely as it may seem now, there was a time in which football in Britain was not only unpopular, but was in real danger of going out of existance completely, due to one main factor: hooliganism.

In the months before Euro 2004 in Portugal, pundits predicted an epidemic of violence. In the previous two European international tournaments—Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands, and the 1998 ...

Football in Kenya has two distinctive features. Firstly, it seems to be the only sporting activity in the country which generates riots. Secondly, while Kenya has distinguished itself as one of the ...

MOSCOW – A Russian lawmaker has proposed an unorthodox solution to the country's problems with football hooliganism ahead of next year's World Cup — legalize it and make it a spectator sport.