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Recent Examples of hooliganism
Since 1985, drinking alcohol in view of the pitch has been banned in men’s professional football in England and Wales, a relic of moral panic amid rampant hooliganism.
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Lela London, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
With hooliganism rife in English soccer throughout the 1980s and the events of Heysel still fresh in the memory, there were immediate attempts to assign blame on the Liverpool fans and defend policing at the match.
—Steve Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
In 2011, he was fined and banned from Romanian stadiums for six months after being accused of hooliganism and racist chants during a soccer match between Romania and Bosnia.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 16 May 2025
An officer with the UK’s Metropolitan police force has been sacked for football hooliganism and given a three-year ban from matches.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
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Lela London, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
With hooliganism rife in English soccer throughout the 1980s and the events of Heysel still fresh in the memory, there were immediate attempts to assign blame on the Liverpool fans and defend policing at the match.
—Steve Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
In 2011, he was fined and banned from Romanian stadiums for six months after being accused of hooliganism and racist chants during a soccer match between Romania and Bosnia.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 16 May 2025
An officer with the UK’s Metropolitan police force has been sacked for football hooliganism and given a three-year ban from matches.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooliganism
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According to the indictment, the two defendants engaged in a racketeering conspiracy, committed multiple murders, engaged in drug distribution and extorted victims.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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He was sentenced to two years in prison in 2019, followed by five years of supervised release for his cooperation in the racketeering case against other gang members.—
Philip Marcelo,
Fortune,
8 Jan. 2026
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At this time there is nothing to suggest any criminality with respect to their venture.—
Andy Sheehan,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
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Police are investigating if any criminality was involved.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Its investigative arm reviews officer misconduct complaints, and is expected to one day replace the police department’s internal affairs division.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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The panel assessed the LAPD’s handling of discipline, misconduct complaints, excessive force by officers and other issues.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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This doesn’t mean that day-care fraud has not taken place in Minneapolis—there’s a years-long history of such malfeasance, and both state and federal law enforcement have convicted dozens of offenders, as Kash Patel subsequently pointed out.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2026
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In the past year, some out-of-power former officials and their allies have been implying the 2024 audit is so severely late because of incompetence or malfeasance.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2026
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Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
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Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Hooliganism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooliganism. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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