There's actually a whole Wikipedia page devoted to football fan hooliganism. Football hooliganism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oh, right. You guys don't fight like Americans do over the outcome of a game. I forgot it's all rainbows and sunshine and unicorns.

This is possible the reason then.



He never claimed that fighting in the game was good but he was talking about how passionate the fans are and from an American perspective a large majority of your football game ends up with fans fighting each other. Green hooligans is pretty accurate. Movies are just like real life.

No not at all, he's just pointing out the sheer euphoria and emotion that one feels when supporting a team.

You think that doesn't happen with other sports?

You do know that fan is short for fanatic right?

If someone is a fan of a sport then they exhibit those same traits when they see their favorite team play except maybe in Tennis when they are generally pretty quiet but only cheer/applaud after sets/points.

The only time I actually hear anything significant over here about European football is when fans riot over something trivial. That's not the image that should be projected to North America about association football, but unfortunately that's what many of us think of.

I don't know if it's a valid argument though, to suggest that football fans are more passionate than fans of American sports, from what I've seen Americans seem to go ape over their sports just as much as anybody else.

Green Street? That's not accurate at all :D, I go to games regularly myself, that kind of stuff was commonplace in the 70s and 80s, it doesn't happen so much now. That film was embarrassing Londoners playing up to the camera (obviously). 'Firms' are fucking cringe worthy.

You get maybe two or three incidents a year and certainly not at a club like Arsenal which is the team Goofle supports.

Places like Turkey, Italy or Argentina I'd say it's more common..

I've not been to a huge amount of football matches, but those I have been to have luckily been in various countries and have to say the most electric in terms of atmosphere was in Argentina watching Boca Juniors.


Boca Juniors vs. River Plate Argentina football soccer fans - YouTube

Yeah, but I think football fans are generally more passionate and especially in Britain. You see the support England take abroad for things like the World Cup for example, the Scots at Wembley last month, Celtic/Rangers, club away support and so on. And I don't mean dicks covered in merchandise with big sponge hands and 50 megapixel cameras I mean making noise and getting behind the team. Also a lot of football rivalries go deeper than football.

I hear what Goofle is saying, for example nothing touches the drama and emotion of things like the World Cup. See my thread in the sports forum, even people who don't follow the sport have posted in it.

The reaction to a goal in football cannot be surpassed by a singular point in any other sport. Obviously a "match point" in any sport is comparable, but I am taking about the average goal.