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Why Do Football Fans Cause Trouble?

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In our time, it is common to hear about football fans causing troubles and even fighting each other if they support two different teams, this is mainly caused by their emotional ties as they feel the need to defend what they support, and this happens more often in football rather than cricket due to different aspects. First, the average duration of a cricket match is more than 7 hours, which limits the excitement and enthusiasm of the supporters making them cause less trouble, while in football the average duration of a match is 90 minutes, making the fans experience different types of emotions in this short time like riding a roller coaster. However, this energy can be converted into rage and conflicts between different fans, which could act as a spark to start a huge blaze. For instance, the incident that happened between Egypt and Algerian in 2009, Algeria and Egypt have long been regional rivals and has always been considered as one of the fiercest rivalries in the world football of football, but not to the level that fans head to Algerian players hotel rooms and start beating both the fans and the Algerian’s team players (James Montague, 2009, p. 5). In contrast, cricket fans are well known for causing less troubles as they have less fans, and clashes between rivals doesn 't get that personal. All these reasons could express how violent football fans could …show more content…

Normally when a football team wins an important match, it is common known that all their fans will be celebrating in the streets by celebrating, dancing, cheering for their team, yet sometimes all these factors build up to end up in a riot, where fans starts vandalism destroying public properties and causing trouble to the police. For example, in the world cup finals on June 2006 which was held in Dortmund, when Germany won Poland, a huge riot started in which there were violent clashes between the police and the German fans, in which German fans were throwing chairs, bottles and fireworks at the police officers, which ended up in police retaining about 300 supporters and from these 300 supporters 120 were known hooligans and it wasn 't there first time ("Hooligan Violence Rears Its Head for Germany-Poland Game", 2010, p. 5), but at the end police officers managed to overcome this incident with minimum damage. Although, cricket fans may cause some riots, but when compare to football fans, a huge difference could be

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