Word: soccer
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Because of the limited popularity of soccer in the States, firms and this particular brand of hooliganism are non-existent. But in the rest of the world, Europe and South America in particular, many believe the scourge of hooliganism has tainted enjoyment of the world’s most popular pastime...
Alexander spoke with The Harvard Crimson about soccer, violence, politics, and her own involvement with hooligans...
...length feature, “Green Street Hooligans.” The film chronicles the transformation of a mild-mannered Harvard undergrad and Crimson editor Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) into a street-fighting man through his expulsion from school and his subsequent initiation into the ultra-violent world of soccer hooliganism...
...single gun in this movie. In this country, we routinely watch movies where thirty or forty people are shot in the first act. We are so disconnected from gun violence. We can watch soldiers shot and blown up on CNN all day, but a fistfight between soccer fans is too violent. It’s crazy...
...rules in field hockey, there is no third overtime. The game was instead sent to penalty strokes, the sport’s equivalent of a shootout in hockey or soccer...