The world according to Sarah

[Valerie.Val]

@KathyLauren oh dear, very sorry to hear your wife got hurt. I hope she'll be okay!

[Stottie Girl]

Oh my thank you 🥹🥹🥹

I mean it Val. You are a breath of fresh air, full of positivity and I get your humour!

[Stottie Girl]

Right, coursework assignment finished, kitchen door eased and back on it's hinges. Garage door mechanism greased and lawn strimmed. I'm officially pooped!

Going to chill out tonight. Not sure if I'll be able to stay awake for the england football match tonight. Will see though. I'm just not loving this world cup for some reason, I'm finding it hard to engage with the national team. I think it is the extremely irritating England "Band". It's about time someone took his toy trumpet off him, he can't play for toffee anyway! I remember England in the 80's and 90's, we had decent songs and chants and the fans weren't all loutish. Nowadays if I see a load of England fans I tend to turn around and walk the opposite direction or speak german or something so I don't get associated!

[Devlyn ✅]

Right, coursework assignment finished, kitchen door eased and back on it's hinges. Garage door mechanism greased and lawn strimmed. I'm officially pooped!

Going to chill out tonight. Not sure if I'll be able to stay awake for the england football match tonight. Will see though. I'm just not loving this world cup for some reason, I'm finding it hard to engage with the national team. I think it is the extremely irritating England "Band". It's about time someone took his toy trumpet off him, he can't play for toffee anyway! I remember England in the 80's and 90's, we had decent songs and chants and the fans weren't all loutish. Nowadays if I see a load of England fans I tend to turn around and walk the opposite direction or speak german or something so I don't get associated!

Sure, if you say so....🤣🤣🤣

Hooliganism in the modern game of football in England dates back to its establishment in the 19th century. Individuals referred to as roughs were known to cause trouble at football matches in the 1880s, for example when they attacked the visiting team in a match between Aston Villa and Preston North End in 1885.

 Local derby matches would usually have the worst trouble in an era when fans did not often travel to other towns and cities, and roughs sometimes attacked the referees and visiting team's players. Incidences of fan violence have been reported from the late 19th and the early 20th century in England and Scotland.

In 1909, thousands of Rangers and Celtic fans rioted at the replay of the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden Park. Crowd troubles also extended to areas outside of the ground, into the town as well as trains and railway stations. For example, Leicester City fans vandalised a train in 1934, and several trains were damaged in 1955 and 1956 by Liverpool and Everton fans.

John Moynihan in The Soccer Syndrome describes a stroll around the touchline of an empty Goodison Park (Everton's home stadium) on a summer's day in the 1960s. "Walking behind the infamous goal, where they built a barrier to stop objects crunching into visiting goalkeepers, there was a strange feeling of hostility remaining as if the regulars had never left."

The News of the World's Bob Pennington spoke of the "lunatic fringe of support that fastens onto them (Everton), seeking identification in a multi-national port where roots are hard to establish." The same newspaper later described Everton supporters as the "roughest, rowdiest rabble who watches British soccer."

Incidences of disorderly behaviour by fans gradually increased before they reached a peak in the 1970s and 1980s. Between 1946 and 1960, there were an average of 13 incidents reported per season, but between 1961 and 1968, the number had increased to 25 per season. Hooliganism in the modern age has been attributed by some sociologists to the decline of the British Empire