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With hooliganism rife in English soccer throughout the 1980s and the events of Heysel still fresh in the memory, there were immediate attempts to assign blame on the Liverpool fans and defend policing at the match.—Steve Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025 In 2011, he was fined and banned from Romanian stadiums for six months after being accused of hooliganism and racist chants during a soccer match between Romania and Bosnia.—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 16 May 2025 Mercifully — and unlike the two terraces behind each goal at Valley Parade in an era when hooliganism was rife in English football — there was no security fence to keep fans penned in.—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 May 2025 An officer with the UK’s Metropolitan police force has been sacked for football hooliganism and given a three-year ban from matches.—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hooliganism
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