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Freiburg success to kill Dreisamstadion?

SC Freiburg’s cindarella season may end up ruining the home of the club as club president hails to build modern stadium. We talked to Ralf and Marc from the Freiburg fan scene.

A few weeks prior to the launch of the Against Modern Football magazine one club came to our attention. A small club with an even smaller budget in the German top division, The Bundesliga, where having a laugh with the big boys. SC Freiburg from the southwestern region Baden-Württemberg  of Germany where battling for European Cup tickets all through the season. However the club success wasn’t all glamour as we discovered when we met up with Marc and Ralf from Natural Born Ultras.

UEFA to rule out charming stadiums

The pride of SC Freiburg and the home of their supporters is the 58th year old Dreisamstadion which has a capacity of 24.000 – the lowest of the 1st Bundesliga. However their beloved stadium could be an issue if the club would make it’s first qualification in 10 years.

“The problem is that the pitch is too short, so we either has to rebuild the stadium (to make space for the pitch) or build a new stadium”, says Ralf and continues to explain the possible scenario: “For our first qualifying match we would get a dispensation, but the second match would have to be played somewhere else.” To make matters worse SCF could be forced to play their European matches at Wildparkstadion, home of their arch rivals Karlsruher SC.

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ENGLAND'S HOOLIGAN ARMY By Cass Pennant , Andy Nicholls Digital media products can only be purchased on Amazon.co.uk. Average customer review: (1 )

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‘England’s Hooligan Army’ combines the authors insightful research with first-person recollections which reveals what it was like being a member of the hooligan army, which for decades shamed the nation and very nearly bought English football to its knees in their quest to remain number one in the world’s unofficial hooligan league.

Brutal, uncompromising, sometimes shocking, often very funny, it is the one book no England fan will want to miss.

'An enjoyable read, and often funny.' --The Daily Telegraph

'It presents a remarkable insight into the culture of violence and confrontation that still prevails among some football fans when they travel abroad.' --The Daily Sport

'The authors manage to make sense of a culture that was born out of the drudgery of Thatcher's Britain.' --The Guardian

Cass Pennant is the leading voice on the subject of terrace culture for film, TV, radio and print. He has written seven best-sellers and has been namechecked in many others. His first book was his autobiography, Cass. This was followed by the hugely successful Congratulations, You Have Just Met the ICF; Want Some Aggro?; Rolling with the 6.57 Crew; Terrace Legends; Top Boys; and Good Afternoon Gentlemen, the Name's Bill Gardner. Cass's life story is now a major film.

Andy Nicholls is an Evertonian who more than knows the score - when he wrote the best-selling book Scally, it was from his confessions as a former category-C football hooligan. In a short time he has become the most prominent writer of his genre and his expert knowledge has often been sought by many documentary filmmakers. Andy wrote the Everton entry in the bestselling Terrace Legends, and followed this by co-authoring Hooligans: The A-Z of Britain's Football Hooligan Gangs.

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher.

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England's Unofficial Football History
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Cass Pennant and Andy Nichols document the events surrounding England's football games from 1977 to 2006 and the spectacles of hooliganism that England's fans became infamous for. Providing perspectives from numerous different teams, officials and media publications, Pennant and Nichols piece together a detailed first-hand account of the crime, violence and rivalry that surrounded the game for those 30 years. Brutally honest, extremely interesting and often shocking, this book is essential reading for football fans and an eye-opener for those who know little of the game's history. Although the accounts become rather repetitive- all being similar in nature and content, the book offers an unbiased assessment of the infamous hooliganism and the extent to which it was portrayed accurately by the media.
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AC Milan Hooligans

Country: Italy

Firm: Brigate Rossonere

Stadium: San Siro

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West Ham Hooligans ICF

West Ham's firm is known as the ICF - Inter City Firm - which derived from there use of the rail network to travel to meets with rival firms. The ICF would leave a calling card after they had caused some agro on an away trip, which usually involved fighting opposition fans and smashing up there pubs.

The Inter City Firm's reputation has been immortalised by the films and books that have been devoted to the subject. Films such as Alan Clarke's The Firm which follows the leader of the ICF in a brutal look at football violence and urban frustration, and Rise Of The Footsoldier which follows the life of Carlton Leach and his rise up the criminal underworld beginning with West Ham's hooligan element.

Cass Pennant

Cass Pennant is the most well known figure to evolve from West Ham's firm writing many books and being the subject of his own movie in the film Cass. Cass Pennant's story is remarkable given the level of racism that was prevalent during the 1970's and 80's in Britain. Cass managed to rise to the top and become one of the generals of the ICF despite being black. His story involves prison for football hooliganism as well as being shot 3 times after building up one of the biggest door firms in the roughest parts of the London nightclub scene. His story is well worth a read and his autobiography can be found on amazon here.

The Inter City Firm's biggest rivals have traditionally been other London firms such as Chelsea's headhunters, Millwall's Bushwackers and Spurs Yid Army. Although firms like Manchester United's red army who had the largest numbers in the height of Britain's hooligan problem always used to have big tear ups. Below is a video of police footage during a patrol before a match between Millwall and West Ham. The Inter City Firm turned out in massive numbers for the match in Millwall and attacked a pub that Millwall fans were drinking in. Large scale disorder broke out as the police lost control of the situation and described the scene as "West Ham taking liberties at Millwall, they come to Millwall's ground, they smash there pubs up and to them it's a victory".

In 1985 West Ham played Manchester United at Old Trafford and the ICF were out in force for the trip to the North West of England. The video below shows narrated footage of the events leading up to the game and how the hooligans give the old bill the slip. The ICF's organisation skills come into play to give the police and opposition the act of surprise to catch them out.

Football Hooligans

The purpose of this site is to document the rise and fall of football hooliganism in the UK. We will also explore the rise in football violence in places like Poland, Russia, Italy and a lot of the Eastern European countries. This site is for informational purposes only, we do not condone the use of violence - We are just documenting history. Keep checking back as this site develops through 2011!

Football Violence The UK may have been the breeding ground for football violence through the 70's and 80's with firms like Manchester United's Red Army, West Ham's Inter City Firm (ICF), Millwall's Bushwackers and Chelsea's Headhunters but the European's and South American's have taken the violence to new levels. Weapons such as knives, bats and even firearms have created a new culture of football hooliganism. Since the redevelopment of football grounds, CCTV and higher levels of policing at football matches in the UK, the number of arrests have fallen and most games pass without incident. But football hooliganism is alive and well in many countries, especially in places of high unemployment.

Hooliganism

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Hooligans at an association football match of Spartak Moscow in November 2010.

Hooliganism is disruptive or unlawful behavior such as rioting, bullying, and vandalism.

Contents  [hide]  1 Etymology 2 Early usage of the term 3 Modern use 4 Violence in sports 5 Hooliganism in film 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading

[edit] Etymology

There are several theories regarding the origin of the word hooliganism. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary states that the word may have originated from the surname of a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music hall song of the 1890s.^[1][2] Clarence Rook, in his 1899 book, Hooligan Nights, claimed that the word came from Patrick Hoolihan (or Hooligan), an Irish bouncer and thief who lived in London.

[edit] Early usage of the term

The term hooligan has been used since at least the mid 1890s at approximately the same time as Manchester's street gangs, known as the "Scuttlers" were gaining notoriety. The first use of the term is unknown, but the word first appeared in print in London police-court reports in 1894 referring to the name of a gang of youths in the Lambeth area of London—the Hooligan Boys,^[3] and later—the O'Hooligan Boys.^[4] In August 1898 a murder in Lambeth committed by a member of the gang drew further attention to the word which was immediately popularized by the press.^[5] The London-based newspaper Daily Graphic wrote in an article on 22 August 1898, "The avalanche of brutality which, under the name of 'Hooliganism' ... has cast such a dire slur on the social records of South London".^[2][6]
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his 1904 novel The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, "It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such". H.G. Wells wrote in his 1909 semi-autobiographical novel Tono-Bungay, "Three energetic young men of the hooligan type, in neck-wraps and caps, were packing wooden cases with papered-up bottles, amidst much straw and confusion".^[6]

[edit] Modern use

Later, as the meaning of the word shifted slightly, none of the possible alternatives had precisely the same undertones of a person, usually young, who belongs to an informal group and commits acts of vandalism or criminal damage, starts fights, and who causes disturbances but is not a thief.^[6] In the Soviet Union the word khuligan was used to refer to scofflaws or political dissenters, “hooliganism” (rus. Хулига́нство) was listed as a criminal offense (similar to "disorderly conduct" in some other jurisdictions) and used as a catch-all charge for prosecuting unapproved behavior.^[2] Matthias Rust was convicted of hooliganism, among other things, for his 1987 Cessna landing in Red Square.
More recently, the same charge has been leveled against members of the riot grrrl band Pussy Riot for which three members have each received a two year sentence on 17 August 2012. "Hooliganism" is defined generally in Russia's criminal code as an "average gravity" crime.^[7]

[edit] Violence in sports

The word hooliganism and hooligan began to be associated with violence in sports, in particular from the 1970s in the UK with football hooliganism. The phenomenon, however, long preceded the modern term; for example, one of the earliest known instances of crowd violence at a sporting event took place in ancient Constantinople. Two chariot racing factions, the Blues and the Greens, were involved in the Nika riots which lasted around a week in 532 CE; nearly half the city was burned or destroyed in addition to tens of thousands of deaths.^[8]

[edit] Hooliganism in film

• The Incident (1967)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• The Firm (1988)
• The Mask (1994)
• I.D. (1995)
• The Football Factory (2004)
• Green Street (2005)
• Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
• Cass (2008)
• Green Street 2: Stand Your Ground (2009)
• Awaydays (2009)
• The Firm (2009)