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== Anime and Manga ==
* An [[Asshole Victim]] in ''[[Case Closed]]'' was one such hooligan—it eventually comes out that he was murdered in retaliation for fatally pushing a man down some stairs [[For the Evulz]].
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== Literature ==
* Given the [[Discworld]] treatment in ''[[
* According to [[Dave Barry]] in "Football Deflated";
{{quote|''In most nations, when people say "football" they mean "soccer," which is a completely different game in which smallish persons whiz about on a field while the spectators beat each other up and eventually overthrow the government.''}}
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== Theatre ==
* There's a [[Theatre|play]] called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140326104934/http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p109/Among-the-Thugs/product_info.html Among The Thugs]'' which is about an American writer who goes embedded in another hooligan group.
== Video Games ==
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* The real-life example known as the [[wikipedia:Football War|Football war]] deserves mentioning when you take into account that the rioting from the games increased the tension between the countries which led to the war.
** Except that the tension between Honduras and El Salvador was already at the brink of the war at the time, and the rioting just triggered its start.
** The Croatian war of independence also arguably started with [
* Egyptian football "Ultras" are often credited as being part of the first wave and strongest group of protestors in the 2011 revolution. A year later, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130814023858/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2105997,00.html they were also involved in the country's worst football-related massacre].
* As stated above, English Football became the most iconic example of hooliganism during the 80's. Almost every club had 'firms' who would arrange punch ups with opposing firms from other sides. This would cumulate with the disaster at Heysel, at the time the whole game was a mess, with stadia crumbling and not being up to standards and loose regulations about drinking for example. Measures put into place like catch fencing would lead to Hillsbrough where even more people died. The Taylor Report which arose from those events called for several new rules and regulations like no alcohol allowed inside the stands and all seater stadiums. Despite the occasional riot breaking out the problem has been all but solved.
** The bitter irony of the whole thing is that to have a deadly crush you don't even ''need'' hooligans—they happen even when all the fans are perfectly peaceful like in [[wikipedia:Luzhniki disaster|Luzhniki disaster]], where all that was needed for a crush that killed ''at least'' sixty seven were the ice on the steps, an untimely goal by the end of an uneventful game, and, again, a failure of the crowd control.
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