tailieunhanh - FOOTBALL ON TRIAL Spectator violence and development in the football world

In June 1990, footballers representing the twenty-four nations whose teams have won through the preliminary rounds will meet in Italy to contest the fourteenth World Cup Finals. Not for the first time in the history of the world’s most popular sport, they will be competing in an atmosphere which can be realistically described as embattled and beleaguered. ‘There is tension in our national game as there has never been before—on the pitch, off the pitch, in the boardrooms and in the corridors of power | FOOTBALL ON TRIAL Ọ Xi Spectator violence and development ÓÍẾỄ in the football world MURPHY WILLIAMS DUNNING Also available as a printed book see title verso for ISBN details BY THE SAME AUTHORS HOOLIGANS ABROAD THE ROOTS OF FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM FOOTBALL ON TRIAL International football fixtures such as the World Cup Finals in Italy in 1990 draw together not only rival teams but also rival fans. The police the media and the football authorities and governments are increasingly geared-up to tackle international fixtures as occasions for the outbreak of crowd disorder. It is almost as if the behaviour of fans is now seen as more important than the playing of the game. Football on Trial examines the principal causes of football hooliganism as a European and world phenomenon. It casts an eye forward to the 1994 World Cup Finals which are to be held in the USA asks why soccer-style hooliganism has not been a problem in America and looks at the prospects for soccer in the US. It also examines player violence the self-image of the hooligans the role of the media in soccer crowd disorder the effectiveness of policies designed to curb it and attempts a comparison between soccer and American football. The authors have built a world class reputation as experts on soccer hooliganism with their books Hooligans Abroad 1984 2nd edition 1989 and The Roots of Football Hooliganism 1988 . This accessible and penetrating book will add to their .