I'm going to talk to you about football. Don't you all think that it's great how Man U are top of the league? No

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I'm going to talk to you about football. Don’t you all think that it’s great how Man U are top of the league? No, I didn’t think that any of you would so I won’t gloat about it. I am going to talk about football, the truth about the game we all think of as friendly and safe. Today ladies and gentlemen I am going to give you an insight of the real football of today. In the next few minutes you will learn about ‘Football’s Nightmare’; violence, racism and hooliganism.

        

When football was first introduced to the Britain in the thirteenth century it was full of violence of all sorts. Medieval football matches involved hundreds of players and were essentially pitched battles between the men of rivalling villages and towns. They were often used to settle family feuds and land disputes. I don’t have to tell you that since then football has come a very long way. Both in the way it is played and also in the way of violence. In the 1900s football began to become a more civilised game, played mainly for the pleasure of people. The fights and rivalry stopped and so did most means of violence.

        

Sixty odd years later the phrase ‘football hooliganism’ came about, firstly, in Britain and it soon followed all around Europe. Britain was and still is seen as the main origin of hooliganism, it was therefore seen as the main cause of any acts of violence in football matches around the world.

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Statistics, from a recently carried out survey that categorised thirteen of Europe’s major footballing countries into five groups, show that Britain has the highest rate of violence, racism, and hooliganism and was the only country in group one. Followed by Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium in group two. Austria, Sweden and Denmark were rated close behind and were placed into group three. Group four consisted of France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. These countries have small amounts of violence but most of which has been contained. The countries with the least amount of violence were Greece, the Czech Republic, ...

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