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Football Violence How to Deal with it ?

Football is the most popular sport in the world.

Football has come a long way since its first laws

were drawn up in London in 1863. That historic meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern led not only to
the foundation of the Football Association but, moreover, to the game's inaugural set of common
rules. A sport played down the centuries in often-violent village contests and then embraced in the
early 1800s by the English public schools, had a fixed rulebook, and it was very similarly to
football.
One club represented at the Freemasons' Tavern, Blackheath, refused to accept the non-inclusion
of hacking (kicking below the knee) and subsequently became a founder of the Rugby Football
Union. However, the 11 others reached an agreement and, under the charge of one Ebenezer Cobb
Morley, 14 laws were soon penned for a game that would, in the following century, become the
most played, watched and talked about activity on the planet.
The football today is, the most important supporting thing in the world. So according to that,
people do the very different things because of football. Some of them are very bad and awful, and
the other are mainly crazy. The worst of that is cheers hooliganism. People are ready even to kill
because of their favourite football team. The violence is the dark side of this beautiful sport.
Football hooliganism normally involves the conflict between gangs and physically contant between
supporters of different teams.

Conflict may take place before, during or after matches. Participants often select locations away
from stadium to avoid arrest by the police, but conflict can also erupt spontaneously inside the
stadium or in the surrounding streets. In such cases, shop windows may be smashed and other
financial damage.
As I said, in extreme cases, hooligans, police, and bystanders have been killed, and bodyarmoured riot police have intervened with tear gas, police dogs, armoured vehicles and water
cannons.
As the example of recent violence we can take the football match between Serbia and Albania.
On Tuesday night in Belgrade a football game started, but it did not end. The Euro 2016 qualifier
between Serbia and Albania was abandoned in the first half after a drone carrying the insignia of
so-called Greater Albania descended on to the pitch, sparking a mass brawl including both sets
of players, stewards and fans.
The scenes were quite remarkable. There were players fighting each other, one of them being hit
with a plastic chair by one of numerous supporters who invaded the pitch, flares and various
missiles thrown from the stands. And within all that there was one familiar face and to see that
face was almost as shocking as the rest of the mayhem. He did not actually do that much, but he
certainly caught the attention of the media worldwide. The football match is interrupted and
football match registered as 3:0 for Serbia.
I think that I should to write one example from here, from Bosnia and Herzegovina. One of the
most worst example happened at the football match in the Siroki Brijeg between their football club
and Sarajevo. Before the football match, fans started to fight, to smash the windows, and it looks
like they will destroy all of the city. The football match is delayed and police couldn't control the
situation. From than, till today, that football match is called as the match of high risk. One of the

fans of Sarajevo was killed. The killer hasn't been found yet, and that is the one of the worst
things in football. Now, the north side of the stadium Kosevo has been called by the name of the
killed fan.
Football would be more interesting without dark sides like hooliganism.