British football

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1. British football history

2. How has British football changed from being a working-class sport to a billion pounds industry?

3. British football and hooliganism and what initiatives have been carried out to reduce hooliganism

4. British football and racism and initiatives to reduce racism

5. Branding of football and football players

6. Watch Sunderland till I die, Netflix and find out why football is so important to this city. Give examples from the documentary to substantiate your findings.

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3. British football and hooliganism and what initiatives have been carried out to reduce hooliganism

Hooliganism is the term used to describe violent behaviour connected to sport events.Hooliganism have been there since the beginning of sports, but since 1960sit began to become a serious problem.

In the 1980s hooliganism became associated with the British football supporters, which has resulted in numerous deaths. Both the government and police have done much to prevent and reduce the scale of the British hooliganism.

Even though England has the worst hooliganism problems other countries has similar problems. in the late 19s the concern was mostly about the groups of roughs causing trouble at matches, not only by attacking opposing supporters but also the players.

In conjunction with other moral panic such as new youth cultures and growing racial tension football stadiums became identified as public spaces where large scale threatening displays and fights could be staged.

In the 1960s football violence was much worse in other Europeancountries than UK, but in the early 1960s the football league sought to pull English teams out of European competitions in fear of violence.

In the 1960 s to 70s the violence has been moved outside stadiums and nearly all large-scale football violence occurred outside the stadiums.

The football violence keeps occur sometimes in more alarming forms etc. In April 2000 Christopher Loftus and Kevin Speight, two Leeds United supporters, were stabbed to death in Istanbul ahead of a UEFA Cup semifinal, in what the coroner's inquest described as "an organised ambush" by Turkish fans.

• Total attendance in excess of 37 million at regulated football matches. The total number of arrests represents less than 0.01% of all spectators, or 1 arrest for every 12,249 spectators.

• During 2010-11 season the total number of people arrested in connection with all international and domestic football (“regulated”) matches involving teams from, or representing, England and Wales were 3,089. This represents a decrease of 9%, or 302 arrests, on 2009-10 totals,

4. British football and racism and initiatives to reduce racism

More than 150 football-related racist incidents were reported to police last season, Home Office figures show, a rise of more than 50% on the year before and more than double the number from three seasons ago.

The figures, revealed by Home Office minister Susan Williams, show three years of increases in reported incidents across England and Wales, with a sharp rise from 98 to 152 between the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons.

Previously there had been a decline in reported incidents of racially charged non-violent abuse, such as chanting or verbal intimidation, from 99 during the 2013-14 season, to 70 in 2016-17.

Since January 2018 the UK Football Policing Unit, the FA and Kick It Out have met every week to discuss incidents from the previous week and allocate a lead agency to take forward positive action