Football Hooligans: Difference between revisions

* Given the [[Discworld]] treatment in ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]''.

* According to [[Dave Barry]] in "Football Deflated";

* Adopted for horse racing in [[Belisarius Series]]. The Greens and The Blues, and their rivalry that culminated in the (in)famous [[wikipedia:Nika riots|Nika riots]] that destroyed half of the Constantinople and just barely haven't led to the destruction of Byzantine government at the time, were treated much like modern football hooligans or the rival firms.

* ''[[Alex Rider]]'' is being led through a crowd by a villain with a hidden gun. He starts silently taunting a football fan whose team has just lost badly (and by silently, I mean miming the score with his fingers), until the man comes over and starts a fight, giving Alex a chance to escape.

* Rare non-UK variant: Danish police show ''Anna Pihl'' had an episode concentrating on the Danish "casual" subculture; violent football hooligans modelled after the English firms, also connected to racist crime.

* One episode of ''[[Life On Mars]]'' dealt with a murder tied to the upcoming Manchester Derby (City vs. United). At the end, the furious Sam rants at the Perp of the Week about the future of football in England because of hooligans; the fences, the checkups, deaths...

** Specifically, he's talking about [[wikipedia:Hillsborough disaster|the Hillsborough Disaster]]. 96 deaths were caused by failures in crowd control leading to a dangerous crush, and the prevailing mindset that all fans were hooligans meant that a public safety problem was treated as a public order problem. This lead to a crucial delay in getting people out of the crush, and allegedly some of those scaling the fences to escape it were pushed back in.

* Bernard [[Suicide by Cop|tries to get beaten up]] by Millwall supporters in the pilot episode of ''[[Black Books]]''.

* An episode of ''[[The Thin Blue Line]]'' had the police being worried about a possible outbreak of football hooliganism due to a London team playing the local club. In arresting various troublemaking elements, they end up locking up the entire local club.

* ''[[The Goodies]]'' had an episode about soccer hooliganism, in which ''ballet'' eventually replaced soccer as the national pastime but was then ruined by - yep - ''ballet hooligans''.

** This was quite probably a reference to ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'', which actually did have hooligans beating each other and gendarmes called in to quell the riot on its premiere.

** They also had a milder parody in one episode, where Tim and Graeme ran in, cheering, chanting, and dressed in red-white scarves and wooly hats.

'''Graeme:''' ''[[Smart People Play Chess|The chess championships!]]'' }}

* ''[[Frasier]]''. Daphne's Mum and Dad met during a soccer riot. When Frasier gets sick, she tells him that she's a good nurse, having mended all her brothers' football injuries.

'''Daphne:''' Neither did me hooligan brothers. }}

* A song in ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'' was called "Football", the lyrics being entirely ''insane''.

Yes football is the game that we all love }}

* In an episode of ''George and the Dragon'', George gets arrested for hooliganism, though what he did was mild compared to today. Look closely and you'll see the policeman who arrests him is Lionel from ''As Time Goes By''.

* In Australia, ''[[The Chaser's War on Everything]]'' had a skit involving selling Balaclavas and (fake) knuckledusters in club colors to [[Rugby League|Canterbury Bulldogs]] fans.

* After the home team wins in an episode of ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'':

'''Dick''': ''[wistfully]'' Yes, the happy sounds of cars over turning and stores being looted. I love the smell of burning rubber, it smells like victory! }}

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[The Simpsons]]''' "The Cartridge Family" is a [[Take That]] to soccer in general. The crowd at an international match breaks into a riot ''because the game is so boring'', and turns the city into a warzone.

** More rioting soccer fans in the episode ''Marge Gamer,'' where Lisa watches a documentary about them. It's enough to make a statue of the Virgin Mary comes to life and "beat the living snot out of everyone."

** Same trope, different sport in "Lisa on Ice." When Bart refuses a penalty shot against Lisa, allowing their hockey game to end in a tie, it turns the crowd into a riot.

 

== Real Life ==