It is the fifth of May, 2000 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Glasgow Rangers have just defeated the Glasgow Celtics in the Scottish Cup Final in European Football. As thousands of people clear out of the arena, a riot breaks out between the mostly Protestant Ranger fans and the Catholic supported Celtics fans. This violent riot ends with twenty-eight police officers and approximately fifty civilians injured (“Belfast”). The idea that something as enjoyable as viewing a …showed first 75 words of 735 total…

…showed last 75 words of 735 total…almost seventy one percent agreed that athlete violence is “all part of the excitement of attending a sporting event” (Pareta “Classroom”). There will never be a solution to hooliganism and other forms of sports violence unless we fully understand the causes and are prepared to work together to solve them. Hooliganism can cut down and almost eliminated if we closely regulate football gangs, cut down on family encouragement and change society’s overly competitive attitudes.