football hooliganism

English

Etymology

football hooligan +‎ -ism

Noun

football hooliganism (uncountable)

  1. (Britain) Fighting at soccer games by football hooligans.
    • 2004, John Horne & ‎Wolfram Manzenreiter, Football Goes East: Business, Culture and the People's Game in East Asia, →ISBN:
      Since the 1980s Chinese professional football has developed tremendously, but the quantity and intensity of football-related social disorder, especially the visibility of football hooliganism, has also increased.
    • 2010, Earl Smith -, Sociology of Sport and Social Theory, →ISBN, page 24:
      Religious, subnational, city-based, regional, and generation-based fault lines may draw into football hooliganism more people from higher on the social scale than tends to be the case in England.
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