"This kind of bullying and hooliganism are unacceptable," Desai told Reuters.
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It is not an excuse for climate denial or ecological hooliganism.
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In 1997 it decriminalised "hooliganism", which was a euphemism for gay sex.
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Hooliganism, a blight on the sport in the previous two decades, subsided.
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After the April camp invasion, C14&aposs Mazur was charged with hooliganism.
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The new system has curbed hooliganism, which plagued Turkish football for decades.
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England's national sport was infected with the cancer of hooliganism back then.
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Vorotnikov could face charges of hooliganism in Russia, which carry stiff sentences.
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The vast majority of the time, these conflicts don't descend into armed hooliganism.
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That includes 10 cases of theft, three of hooliganism and two of fraud.
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Yes, there are rampant issues of homophobia, racism, and hooliganism in the sport.
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As a society, we can really go crazy about the phenomenon called hooliganism.
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Mamayev has admitted committing assault, but denied the more serious charge of hooliganism.
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He specializes in crowds, riots, hooliganism, "public order" policing, human rights, and security.
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Black people had long been seen as culturally predisposed to crime and hooliganism.
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Hooliganism is a serious crime, and it's illegal to drink in the metro.
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But it accused South Korea of "hooliganism in the air" for harassing its aircraft.
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You know, like Jackass-level masochistic hooliganism and building halfpipes in their living room.
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Hooliganism at international soccer matches is not new: France should have been better prepared.
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There's nothing new here—the origins of soccer hooliganism trace back to the 1300s.
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He charged with "petty hooliganism" for littering and sentenced to five days in prison.
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The fan who did not comply with police orders was also charged with minor hooliganism.
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In party towns, like Amsterdam and Prague, residents must put up with late-night hooliganism.
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Can you say a bit about your plans to transform hooliganism into a combat sport?
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There are also growing concerns about widespread discrimination and racism, hooliganism, corruption, and broadcast rights.
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They were reportedly charged about $67 each for "minor hooliganism" and sent on their way.
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Croatia still struggles economically and its football scene has been riven with hooliganism, crime and politics.
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But it's really his way of excusing his ignorance, costuming his incompetence and greenlighting his hooliganism.
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It's a far cry for the hooliganism prevalent in British and European soccer in the 1980s.
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Here's one thing that might make both Russia and FIFA look bad, though: Russia's notorious hooliganism.
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Hooliganism, like racism or electro-swing, is something you'd imagine humanity might have evolved beyond by now.
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His lawyer has not challenged the assault charge but is contesting the more serious charge of hooliganism.
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If found guilty of charges of hooliganism and assault, they face up to seven years in jail.
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Giorgi Vashadze, leader of the opposition New Georgia party, was among those detained for disobedience and hooliganism.
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I don't agree with using weapons and don't like the old-school style of hooliganism involving attacking pubs.
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It's sometimes, in extreme forms, associated with football hooliganism and with a minority of extreme right-wing groups.
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"We had typical rowdy, rambunctious, Irish-Catholic hooliganism," Baldwin told Farther Off the Wall's Tom Hoffarth in 2013.
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Moreover, homosexuality was legalised in China in 1997 (before that it could be prosecuted under a law banning hooliganism).
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. The US doesn't have great form when it comes to soccer hooliganism.
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Two of the band's members were jailed in 2012 for two years after they were found guilty of hooliganism.
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While they were only a minority of England's fans, the police don't forget about the country's history of hooliganism.
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Police said they detained 25 people, one for attacking the woman and 24 for hooliganism and disobeying police orders.
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The police response to the incident has served as the blueprint for their efforts to combat hooliganism ever since.
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Police said they detained 25 people, one for attacking the woman and 24 for hooliganism and disobeying police orders.
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As Mr. Klein will discover, classic and new anti-Semitism manifest in many ways — far beyond neo-Nazi hooliganism.
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"Hooliganism reigns in this place," the woman's father, Manoj, who goes by one name, told the Indian news media.
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"I am inclined to call what is happening state hooliganism," he told reporters at a BRICS summit in China.
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Take, for example, the battle in Marseille between the two titans of hooliganism—Russia and Britain—during the 2016 Euros.
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Hooliganism had always been in the back of my mind, and I ended up deciding to be a Miami Casual.
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Poland has a long-running problem with hooliganism, and now it has marred the country's return to the Champions League.
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Soccer hooliganism is fighting for an irreducible reason: supporters of one team fight another because they are supporting different teams.
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At the time, college rugby was known for its mostly fraternity party-boy culture, heavy on the drinking and hooliganism.
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His work, a protest of government corruption, was accused of "hooliganism," and he was sentenced to a 2-year prison stint.
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The concentration of hostile fans from opposite teams in the same place might also increase tensions and the risk of hooliganism.
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Ghana didn't have the vibrant hooliganism that dogged European soccer, but it did have the occasional outburst, especially during big matches.
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In the past, the Kremlin has described threats against Kasyanov as ordinary hooliganism or said it was unaware of the specifics.
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The most appropriate response is not some sort of soul-searching about a return to the dark days of English hooliganism.
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He could face anything from a fine to five years in prison on hooliganism charges, Avakov said in a Facebook post.
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For the apparent crime of "hooliganism," members Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova were arrested and sentenced to two years in prison.
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In the weeks after the deadly crush, South Yorkshire Police officials blamed Liverpool fans, falsely citing drunkenness, hooliganism and late arrivals.
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Though the practice has received little attention, it is ecological hooliganism, and most of it has been perpetrated by boats from Tanmen.
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While the English game had a particularly bad reputation for hooliganism in the 1970s and '80s, the Dutch equivalent followed close behind.
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Voina has long been under pressure in Russia for its activities and Vorotnikov could face charges of hooliganism, which carry stiff sentences.
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Millwall fans were so fiercely partisan that other teams feared playing at the Den, and in later years hooliganism became a problem.
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Jiangsu Suning supporters have been filmed viciously beating a Shanghai Shenhua fan, in footage that provides a glimpse into hooliganism in China.
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The only thing they would do is say, 'Let's not exaggerate; it was just an individual attack or an act of hooliganism'.
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He was arrested and sentenced to 12 days for hooliganism, but the public outcry was so big that he was quickly released.
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"The football union cannot be held responsible for the hooliganism of a group of people," BFU's spokesman Hristo Zapryanov had said earlier.
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Journalists who work outside the all-encompassing state media have been beaten, blacklisted, charged with hooliganism or extremism, jailed, and temporarily disappeared.
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Several rights activists and journalists have been imprisoned in Azerbaijan in recent years on charges including illegal business activity, tax evasion and hooliganism.
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The act has now has landed the man a criminal hooliganism charge that could land him five years in prison, the BBC said.
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But they go back home, while we remain here, with our match day, its hooliganism and its focus on football as an aside.
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A group of 20 Russian soccer fans has been deported from France after being accused of involvement in hooliganism at the European Championships.
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The gang ran a music business, Blood & Honour, which was controlled by Paul "Charlie" Sargent, a thug with a history of football hooliganism.
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In Russia, the Pussy Riot band was imprisoned for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred," though their target was not religion but Vladimir Putin.
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In one case, an artist was charged with "petty hooliganism" after hanging a banner over a highway with a quote from the Constitution.
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They released a video called "Don't be that idiot" to highlight examples of English hooliganism that had come to light in recent months.
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Not just from an individual athleticism standpoint, but also the teamwork: Soccer is a lovely ballet, only with more kicking and tripping and hooliganism.
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China decriminalized "hooliganism," which the Atlantic reported was "widely assumed to include homosexuality, though the law was never explicit on this point" in 1997.
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Kenyatta said that all political parties taking part in the nominations had been given police protection to stem any acts of violence or hooliganism.
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Maybe the hooliganism that has returned to soccer — notably in Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Turkey — will stay away.
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In the 1980s, soccer hooliganism was a problem in a number of Western European countries, most notably in England, but stadium violence is rare today.
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But when I stepped out of the world of hooliganism, I had a motto in life: What has to be done, has to be done.
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And you could argue that American hooliganism is fueled by the mostly fictional account of a hobbit getting beaten up at a West Ham match.
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Vladimir Putin has spoken publicly about the violence which has plagued the opening week of Euro 2016, and made light of Russian involvement in hooliganism.
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Finally, to end a night of debauchery and hooliganism, the group destroy a parked car, roundhousing the windows and spraypainting "FUCK YOU" on the dash.
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The shop had been a casualty of World Cup hooliganism, in the heady aftermath of France's victory this summer, its stock burgled, its window smashed.
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Ms. Alyokhina and Mr. Verzilov's wife Nadezhda Tolokonnikova spent two years in prison after being convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" for the performance.
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"What we are talking about is an act of hooliganism which, of course, must be condemned," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a teleconference with journalists.
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Open hostility has existed between the two almost since their creation, but the stakes were raised during the casuals' culture and hooliganism of the eighties.
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The Moscow hooligan lamented the end of hooliganism&aposs golden era, when battles between rival clubs in Moscow came down to tactics as much as strength.
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Robinson, who has convictions for assault, football hooliganism and fraud, has lent Britain&aposs far right an energy and media savvy that it often has lacked.
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China has accused America of "hooliganism" and demanded her release; Western technology executives fret about the possibility of retaliation if they were to visit China themselves.
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I'm more into the forest-fighting model [a form of hooliganism involving pre-arranged fights in forests, which is popular among hooligans in other European countries].
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Then, as in 2016, this rioting was created not by English hooliganism but by a complex array of interrelating factors linked to crowd psychology and behavior.
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In even better news, "The Firm," the 1989 Alan Clarke drama about football hooliganism featuring Mr. Oldman at his most vivid, is free for Prime members.
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All of those detained in Azerbaijan have been released, but some served short sentences on charges of "hooliganism" and "resisting a police order," Mr. Colville said.
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After his concert was canceled in Krasnodar, in southern Russia, he tried to perform from the roof of a car instead, leading to his arrest for hooliganism.
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"There was a fair amount of press back home saying that hooliganism could be a problem, and security," said Richard Westwood, managing director of a beer company.
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With the 2018 World Cup starting in Russia on June 14, Infantino said he was confident the tournament would be impeccably organized and played down hooliganism fears.
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Six men from the Czech Republic were arrested and fined for "minor hooliganism" after they wore Borat's favourite piece of beachwear while visiting Kazakhstan, reported the BBC.
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The hooligans, who often refer to themselves as 'ultras', belong to an organized tradition of hooliganism which has its roots mainly around clubs in Moscow and St Petersburg.
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As with eighties hooliganism itself, elements of casual culture have been exaggerated and glorified retrospectively, with mid-noughties films like Green Street and The Football Factory especially culpable.
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"Today, the measure is very simple: flood the public space with police so that there is no room for any form of hooliganism," Sports Minister Patrick Kanner said.
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And the Euro 2016, with their team playing England, the nation that invented soccer hooliganism, may have been the perfect occasion to have a continental coming-out party.
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Image 2 of 2 VOLGOGRAD, Russia – British police says 98 percent of the fans banned from traveling to the World Cup because of hooliganism fears have surrendered their passports.
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"One should condemn any act of hooliganism and I condemn it doubly (...) Firstly because you can't beat, yank people under any circumstances," PiS legislator Marcin Horala told broadcaster TVN24.
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Russia's Euro 2016 football team has received a suspended disqualification for fan hooliganism at the England match in Marseille, France, on Saturday, which resulted in numerous arrests and injuries.
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XIAMEN, China (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday that Washington's actions towards Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States could be described as "state hooliganism".
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After Pussy Riot performed their anti-Putin "Punk Prayer" in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow in 2012, three members of the collective were imprisoned for hooliganism.
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"Today, the measure is very simple: flood the public space with police so that there is no room for any form of hooliganism," Sports Minister Patrick Kanner told RTL radio.
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It also connects English soccer to wartime virtues of stoicism and honor, a reputation that would be tarnished when the sport was overtaken by hooliganism in the 1999s and 1980s.
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"A culture of hooliganism during the electoral process must not and will not be allowed to gain currency and acceptance," Kenyatta told a news conference at the main State House.
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This was a reference to the Euro 2016 football tournament, which France is currently hosting, and which has seen its own share of unusually violent hooliganism entirely unrelated to terrorism.
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Russia—mired in recession, criticised over its invasion of Ukraine and at the centre of a doping scandal—could at least point to football hooliganism as something it exports well.
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England fans have had a reputation for hooliganism since the 1970s and caused serious trouble at the 1998 World Cup in France and the European Championships in Belgium in 2000.
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Most people get by with a good job, a nice car or a decent salary, but I identified more with the other side of my double life: hooliganism and ego.
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If I had never got into hooliganism, I would probably have finished my studies five years earlier, and I would have a dog, a house and a lovely wife now.
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When it first appeared in the 22010s, hooliganism in Russian soccer modeled itself heavily on the English version, adopting its clothes and terminology, including the term for its groups: firms.
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The new generation bears little resemblance to the beery bravado and off-balance punch-ups associated with traditional European hooliganism, or even the sometimes militialike violence of South American ultras.
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"In the 2000s, the soccer hooliganism issue shifted from public view, and authorities turned a blind eye," said Semyon Charny, a researcher at the Moscow-based human rights group Memorial.
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Two sex workers were issued with fines then released while the others were sentenced to up to 15 days in jail on charges of hooliganism and resisting police orders, Rahimli said.
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Pussy Riot's Masha Alyokhina, 27, who was convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" and imprisoned for nearly two years, knows a thing or two about going up against the Kremlin.
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"We should not allow any sort of hooliganism to rule the day in the name of picketing," said Kagwiria Mbogori, chairperson of the human rights commission, known by its acronym, KNCHR.
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He plans to gain further acceptance via a series of hooliganism-related ventures, including a scheme to transform match-day thuggery into a combat sport and a hooligan-themed cooking show.
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My football friends knew about my social life outside of hooliganism, but my colleagues and most of the people around me didn't have a clue about the dark side of things.
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There are concerns that violence off the pitch could mar the tournament with hooliganism a problem (particularly between Russia and England fans) at the last major European soccer tournament, Euro 2016.
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There's really no way to know what will happen in advance, but widespread hooliganism at events hosted in Russia doesn't serve Putin's aims to "showcase" his country in a positive light.
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One of the unusual pleasures of Rooney's novels is watching young women engage in a casual intellectual hooliganism, demolishing every mediocrity that crosses their paths, just for the fun of it.
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But a Kremlin spokesman said the incident, in which Kasyanov had a cake pushed into his face, was not connected to the Kremlin ally and was simply an act of hooliganism.
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Three-day weeks, riots, a recession, unemployment, mines being shut down, the rise of the national front and hooliganism at football grounds all added to a dismal, grey and depressing England.
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For the past month, Uzbek authorities have kept blogger Nafosat Olloshukurova in a Khorezm regional psychiatric center, following 333 days of detention on charges of petty hooliganism and participating in unauthorized assemblies.
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Unlike Hillsborough, where the tragedy was first loudly and wrongly laid at the feet of hooliganism, there was never any mystery as to the root cause of the Accra Sports Stadium disaster.
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The spectre of genuine hooliganism haunts many of the casual accounts on Twitter and Facebook, and there's no avoiding the fact that the thrill of violence appeals to some of their following.
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England was infamous in an earlier era for the ugliness of soccer hooliganism, and some fans in Russia have been accused of throwing Nazi salutes and chanting racist and anti-Semitic songs.
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For the past month, Uzbek authorities have kept blogger Nafosat Olloshukurova in a Khorezm regional psychiatric center, following 10 days of detention on charges of petty hooliganism and participating in unauthorized assemblies.
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Tokayev had earlier blamed the violence on "provocateurs" who used an act of hooliganism to instigate larger-scale violence and said the local authorities would be punished for failing to prevent it.
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Many U.S. viewers will see a side of fan culture that simply doesn't exist in the United States: hooliganism, coordinated fan violence, and fan choreography so spectacular the match itself must be stopped.
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Russia's problems with fan violence and hooliganism have been a recurrent issue for many years, but the issue has received greater scrutiny because the country is set to host the next World Cup.
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Three members made headlines in 2012 after a demonstration in a cathedral prompted charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, and the group has continued to challenge Mr. Putin through songs and music videos.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he regretted violence at the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France involving Russian fans, pledging Moscow would work to try to stamp out hooliganism.
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Alyokhina knows a thing or two about this — she was sentenced to two years in a prison colony for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" for Pussy Riot's anti-Vladimir Putin performance in an Orthodox church.
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Since clashes between Russian and English fans tarnished the European championship in France last year, Putin has approved legislation that toughens punishments for violence at sporting events as part of a broader crackdown on hooliganism.
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The main selling point for the system to fans is convenience, but the KNVB's proposal isn't the first attempt by a football association or club to manage hooliganism and crime at matches through biometric technology.
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The court in the southern city of Krasnodar on Thursday sentenced the rapper, Dmitri Kuznetsov, 25, known as Husky, on charges of hooliganism and of refusing to take a medical test, Russian news outlets reported.
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Here they are further complicated by the arrival of a much larger number of English fans and a group of organized Russian "Ultras" keen to assert their supremacy in the perverse status culture of European hooliganism.
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Citing potential "terrorist" attacks and acts of hooliganism as the main threats, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said some 77,000 police, gendarmes and riot control officers would be deployed alongside 13,000 private security agents and 1,000 volunteers.
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In 1981, the couple were arrested, charged with "hooliganism" and sentenced to 10 days in jail for joining a demonstration protesting the exile of Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist and advocate for disarmament and human rights.
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The game – which takes place in Lens on June 16 – is viewed as a potential target for a terrorist attack, while the presence of two British sides means it is also considered to be a hooliganism risk.
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Some have tried to channel these impulses: a Russian politician suggested that the hooliganism sideshow should be made into a sport, and in February M-1 Global organized an MMA fight between fighters from rival soccer clubs.
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Still, where there is a point of agreement among league, teams and fans, it is that there is little desire for fan groups to emulate the worst types of hooliganism seen in other parts of the world.
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His curiosity about the breed of fan who has been banned from games leads him to observe and then participate in football hooliganism, on and off the field — even, at one point, attending a National Front disco.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Global soccer body FIFA said that World Cup 2018 host nation Russia was putting in place a "comprehensive security concept" to prevent a repetition of the hooliganism which has marred the European championship in France.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - England fans arriving in Moscow on Monday ahead of the World Cup knockout match between England and Colombia said the tournament had so far proved those raising concerns over hooliganism wrong and that Russian people were "fantastic".
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The Sun famously accused Liverpool supporters of urinating on policemen, drunkenly assaulting the emergency services and pickpocketing the dead, their report a combination of vicious slander and stereotyping a predominantly working-class fanbase with the tropes of eighties hooliganism.
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Researchers who study this phenomenon, which plays out in ways as varied as European soccer hooliganism and sectarianism in the Middle East, say it sheds light on how these group dynamics form — and why they can be so powerful.
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Certainly in Britain, CCTV and the liberal use of banning orders have made football hooliganism much more difficult, while logic dictates that modern hooligans ought to avoid casual brands in order to make themselves less obvious to the police.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities charged two British soccer fans with public drunkenness and hooliganism on Monday after they were taken off a train heading for Volgograd where England were due to play in a World Cup match, the interior ministry said.
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The burden of hooliganism could grow larger still if Russia were to draw Poland, Ukraine or, especially, Turkey in the knockout round (Russo-Turkish relations have deteriorated spectacularly since Turkey shot down a Russian jet on the Syrian border last year).
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In 2014, Arte, a French-German channel, recruited Bruno Dumont (an art-house director whose previous films include "Camille Claudel 1915", starring Juliet Binoche) to make the series "P'tit Quinquin", a black comedy about hooliganism in the coastal town of Boulogne.
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For example, you could argue that at the height of its infamy, English hooliganism was fueled by a poisonous cocktail of dying industry, regional resentment, mass unemployment, racial tension, a war on class loyalty, cruel government, corrupt policing, and fading empire.
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His rise from closeted cop to out tech mogul has been widely documented in the media: He grew up in the early '21.6s, when homosexuality was still prosecuted as "hooliganism," punishable by detention or even time at a labor camp.
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Though Millwall's leaping lion brings the terror factor – not least as it is now commonly associated with a less metaphorical form of violence from the heyday of English hooliganism – the comparatively serene and thoughtful lion on Salford City's badge is similarly compelling.
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Related: English and Russian Soccer Fans Clash Violently in Marseille Ahead of Euro 20183 Match Soccer hooliganism used to be the province of English fans, renowned around Europe for the violence exhibited by supporters of both the national team and club squads.
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Related: English and Russian Soccer Fans Clash Violently in Marseille Ahead of Euro 2016 Match Soccer hooliganism used to be the province of English fans, renowned around Europe for the violence exhibited by supporters of both the national team and club squads.
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The reason soccer fans are segregated in stadiums all over the world, and why in many countries they no longer enjoy the right to mingle with supporters of opposing teams, is that legislation was widely passed after the hooliganism of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Related to the hooliganism issue, Russian soccer has a long history of racist incidents at games, perhaps most infamously detailed by the Brazilian player Hulk in 2015 when he told the Guardian that he encounters racism "almost every game" while playing in the country.
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Pussy Riot, widely known as a punk band unsparing in its criticism of Vladimir V. Putin and the Russian government, gained notoriety in 2012 when three of its members were sentenced to two years in prison on charges of hooliganism, leading to worldwide protests.
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Pussy Riot, widely known as a punk band unsparing in its criticism of President Vladimir V. Putin and the Russian government, gained notoriety in 2012 when three of its members were sentenced to two years in prison on charges of hooliganism, leading to worldwide protests.
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On March 3, 2012, she was arrested and then convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" and taken to an all-women high-security prison in the northern Russian city of Berezniki in the Ural Mountains, where she served 21 months of her two-year sentence.
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PARIS/NICE (Reuters) - Police on Tuesday detained 43 Russia fans suspected of taking part in clashes with England supporters in Marseille at the start of the Euro 04003 soccer tournament, and two cities in northern France imposed alcohol bans in a bid to avert more hooliganism.
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Investigators have now opened criminal cases against Shamsuarov and his friends that carry potential jail time of up to five years, and Yuri Chaika, the prosecutor general, has told parliamentarians the law on "hooliganism" needs to be tightened to better punish members of the gilded youth.
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For some, organized hooliganism has become a sort of primal expression of uninhibited Russian masculinity, and it appears peculiarly suited to a moment when the Kremlin is cultivating the idea that Russia must rely on its strength alone in its opposition to a bloodless, overcivilized Europe.
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"Fans are still doing crazy things like jumping on top of police vans, but it's a genuine craziness and excitement and not the sort of hooliganism we have witnessed in the past," said Tom Gibbons of Teesside University, a senior lecturer in sociology and the history of sports.
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Sven Daniel Wolfe, a researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland who is currently in Russia studying the effects of the World Cup, told me via email that the hooliganism issue is "fairly overblown (in my opinion)" because, in the grand scheme of things, soccer just isn't that popular in Russia.
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New York (CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the United States was prepared to sustain its pressure on Syria after a night of military strikes meant to cripple the country's ability to use chemical weapons, as Russia accused Washington of "hooliganism" and a major breach of international law.
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"If Silver thinks endorsing the indiscriminate violence the radical Hong Kong protesters are resorting to in their bid to 'liberate' the city, a secessionist pipe dream they are peddling to justify their summer hooliganism, is supporting freedom of expression then he should think again," read an editorial in China Daily published Wednesday.
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Read more: A Bulgaria crowd appeared to make monkey chants and Nazi salutes at England's black players, and the team's captain begged the fans to stopPrior to Monday, the president of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU), Borislav Mihaylov, released a statement in which he criticized England's worries about potential abuse, citing its "ongoing battle with hooliganism" as a factor.
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For everyone else, much of the focus has been on anything but the sport: the precise mechanics, still shrouded in doubt, as to how Russia won the right to host the tournament in the first place; the dismantling of what détente there had been between Russia and Europe, and between Russia and North America in the course of eight fraught, bloodied years; the specter of racism and homophobia and hooliganism defacing soccer's great carnival.
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Six months ago, Leicester's title win was a global phenomenon, but football being the breakneck treadmill that it is, no sooner had Morgan hoisted the trophy aloft and jetted off on his summer holidays than the watching world had retrained its sights on the Euros (and hooliganism, Iceland, Ronaldo, and the rest) and then the new league season (replete with an all-new Battle of the Bosses storyline), not to mention the odd event outside football.
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Add to this mix the trauma and indignity that many eastern Germans experienced as westerners took over their culture and economy, the disorienting effects of globalization, and the resentment stemming from the ever-wider discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots in Germany, and it's hardly surprising that Germany is facing what was once thought impossible: not a new Nazism per se, but rather a proliferation of hard-right movements and clusters, the latter even found in police and army units, and a new tolerance for racist ideas and violent hooliganism.
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