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Carlisle United: 'Reformed' football hooligan's ban to end early

BBC News 21 May 2022
Carl Campbell was jailed in 2015 for punching a charity collector, leaving her covered in blood ... .
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PSL Indaba to Make Key Decisions

All Africa 21 May 2022
FOOTBALL fans will be central as key decisions are expected to be made today at the Premier Soccer League security indaba that is expected to address the scourge of hooliganism in domestic football ....
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Is this the return of football hooliganism?

The Spectator 20 May 2022
are we seeing the return of football hooliganism? Thursday’s League Two play-off match also saw fans on the pitch at its end with punches allegedly thrown at Swindon players ... Football fans have had a miserable last couple of years, with ever-changing Covid regulations locking them out of their grounds for much of the time.
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Eddie Howe: Surge in football hooliganism is risking 'tragedy'

The Daily Telegraph 20 May 2022
Eddie Howe, the Newcastle United manager, has warned the surge in football hooliganism is risking a “potential tragedy” ahead of Sunday’s final round of Premier League matches ... Police and the Football Association have both launched investigations after Palace manager Patrick Vieira appeared to lash out at a fan who goaded him after the game.
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Farewell to 'One Eyed Baz': Frank Bruno among mourners at funeral of Barrington Patterson after ...

The Daily Mail 20 May 2022
A huge banner reading 'RIP Baz' and bearing a picture of the ex-hooligan was unfurled from the roof of the Birmingham City football stadium ... A huge banner reading 'RIP Baz' and bearing a picture of the ex-hooligan was unfurled from the roof of the Birmingham City football stadium (pictured).
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EO review – an innocent donkey leads the way in surreal Bresson-inspired ride

The Guardian 20 May 2022
He winds up in a donkey sanctuary from which he is freed, then captured in the streets by a council worker for whose football team EO becomes a mascot. But, then he is beaten by hooligans supporting the opposing team, captured by a gang trading in illicit horse- and donkey-meat, ...
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Frank Bruno among hundreds at funeral of former MMA fighter 'One-eyed Baz' Barrington Patterson

ITV 20 May 2022
Barrington Patterson was also a kickboxer, and was affectionately known as "One-Eyed Baz" - he died in March aged just 56. He turned his life around after being involved in football hooliganism as a young man, and was known across the West Midlands for his work to combat homelessness and campaigns against knife crime ... BPM Media ... BPM Media ... .
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EXCLUSIVE: Pictured: Electrical engineer, 30, on £55,000-a-year who head-butted Sheffield United's Billy Sharp during post-match ...

The Daily Mail 19 May 2022
An electrical engineer who headbutted Sheffield United striker Billy Sharp after storming onto the pitch has been jailed for 24 weeks - as he faces a life-long ban from his football club ... They are civil orders which aim to stop known hooligans causing trouble at and around football matches, both home and abroad.
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Cocaine-fuelled football hooligans to be given five-year match ban

The Independent 19 May 2022
Police are increasingly finding class A drugs ‘at heart of disorder’ at games, minister says .
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Videos show huge fights between Rangers and Eintracht fans at the Europa League final in Seville, Spain

Spanish News Today 19 May 2022
The estimated 150,000 supporters who descended on the Spanish city will be travelling home today, and the football hooligan violence will be over once again, though some Seville residents are questioning the wisdom of hosting more sporting finals in the city in the future.
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IAN LADYMAN: The recent scenes seen at football grounds across the land is the re-emergence ...

The Daily Mail 18 May 2022
It is to be hoped the Football League’s threat to reduce capacities in response to the rise in lawlessness in our stadiums will give the mindless minority pause for thought ... Sheffield United footballer Billy Sharp slams 'scumbag' who... Yet here we are, 12 months on, reflecting on a rise in hooliganism inside our football grounds.
photo: AP / Alexei Alexandrov, File
File - Women walk past a destroyed apartment building in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 2, 2022.
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Mariupol: The 80 days that left a flourishing city in ruins

BBC News 18 May 2022
... league football club FC Mariupol ... In his diary Ivan describes the members he knows as a motley assortment of Mariupol natives - bikers, lawyers, football hooligans, and an amateur actor - driven not by ideology, but by a fierce hatred of those who were trying to ruin their lives.
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Crackdown on cocaine-fuelled football hooligans is long overdue

The Sun 15 May 2022
A CRACKDOWN on cocaine-fuelled football hooligans is long overdue. Drugs are stoking a terrifying surge in violence at stadiums. 3. The disgraceful rioting that marred last year’s Euro final at Wembley was fuelled by drugged-up thugs ... Read More in Opinion ... .
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Fan is EJECTED from Suncorp Stadium for yelling 'disgusting sledge at Jackson Hastings' sister' as ...

The Daily Mail 15 May 2022
The alleged culprit (circled in red) was escorted out of the ground by the police. RELATED ARTICLES ... Share ... Bloody Sokkah hooligans brawling at suncorp stadium in Brisbane last night. Where is the outrage?#sokkah #sokkahtwitter #football #passionisnotacrime #NRLMagicRound #NRL #ALeague https.//t.co/CNcfYL5GRm— M.\urice (@BMOUSA1) May 14, 2022 ... Share ... .
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Rage against the regime: the Belarus ultras who stood up to Lukashenko

New Statesman 14 May 2022
This is the story of how the hard men of Belarusian football became dissidents, political prisoners and exiles ... In Belarus, a smaller ultra movement would be inspired by tales of Ukrainian football hooligans making history ... The ultras of Belarus originally styled themselves after the violent English football hooligan “firms” of the 1970s and 1980s.

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