Editing Hooliganism (section)

===In British sports===
{{Main|Football hooliganism in the United Kingdom}}
{{Summarize|from|Football hooliganism in the United Kingdom|section=y|date=August 2019}}
Beginning in at least the 1960s, the United Kingdom gained a reputation worldwide for [[football hooliganism]]; the phenomenon was often dubbed the ''British'' or ''English Disease''.<ref name="BritishDiseaseBBC">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/797601.stm | title=Analysis: Soccer violence an international problem | access-date=3 November 2020 | date=19 June 2000 | publisher=BBC | first=Martin | last=Asser}}</ref><ref name=si0685>{{Cite magazine |url= https://vault.si.com/vault/1985/06/10/a-day-of-horror-and-shame |title=A Day Of Horror And Shame |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=10 June 1985 |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="LiverpoolUni">{{cite web | url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/footballindustry/hooligan.html | title=FIG FACT-SHEET FOUR: HOOLIGANISM | access-date=March 20, 2011 | publisher=Football Industry Group, University of Liverpool | archive-date=13 September 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913004141/http://www.liv.ac.uk/footballindustry/hooligan.html | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Football Hooliganism: Policing the War on the English Disease | author=Stott, Clifford | year=2007 | publisher=Pennant Books | isbn=978-1-906015-05-3 | author2=Pearson, Geoff}}</ref><ref name="EnglishDiseaseBBC">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6532989.stm | title=The return of the English disease? | access-date=March 20, 2011 | date=April 6, 2007 | publisher=BBC | first=Mario | last=Cacciottolo}}</ref><ref name="IndyEnglishDisease">{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/another-sorry-outbreak-of-the-english-disease-730590.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411212440/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/another-sorry-outbreak-of-the-english-disease-730590.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=April 11, 2008 | title=Another sorry outbreak of the English disease | access-date=March 20, 2011 | date=June 17, 2004 | newspaper=The Independent on Sunday | location=London}}</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=May 2022}} However, since the 1980s and well into the 1990s the UK government has led a widescale crackdown on football related violence. While football hooliganism has been a growing concern in some continental European countries in recent years, British football fans now tend to have a better reputation abroad. Although reports of British football hooliganism still surface, the instances now tend to occur at pre-arranged locations rather than at the matches themselves.