Rugby league hooliganism

Rugby league hooliganism

Rugby league hooliganism covers hooliganism among fans in the sport of rugby league in the United Kingdom (UK).

As football hooliganism became rife in the UK, the Rugby league authorities came up with the slogan "Rugby League: A Man's Game For All The Family" in a bid to entice disenchanted football fans.Fact|date=October 2008 While rugby league has not suffered the same problems of large-scale organised violence, the slogan did have a hollow ring when sporadic outbreaks occurred at its matches. Rugby league enjoys a reputation of being a game that all the family can come and watch in safety. Yet from the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s off the field violence occurred at and around matches, and has since been on the increase. [ [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Game-Untold-Hooliganism-League/dp/1903158621 Amazon.co.uk: The Family Game: The Untold Story of Hooliganism in Rugby League: Michael James: Books ] ]

Incidents

Despoite the increase in stewards, all seated stadiums and CCTV,there has been a rise of rugby League hooligan firms in several towns across Northern England and violence and trouble has been unavoidable.Fact|date=October 2008

26 March 2000, seventeen Hull F.C. hooligans were arrested after some of the worst violence seen in rugby league since the late 1980s. 500 fans invaded the pitch and tore down the posts. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000327/ai_n14285182 Rugby League: Hull's `shame' as police arrest 17 | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET ] ] On 17 March 2002, Leigh Centurions fans clashed with Wigan Warriors fans at Hilton Park and the game was called off in the second half. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/rugby_league/challenge_cup/1877797.stm BBC SPORT | CHALLENGE CUP | Wigan survive Leigh scare ] ] In February 2005, a group of Widnes Vikings fans calling themselves the "Widnes Townies" let off a distress flare causing damage to a stand at Knowsley Road, the home of St Helens RLFC. [ [http://archive.sthelensstar.co.uk/2005/2/24/1221.html St Helens Star - Flare probe ] ] On 8 July 2007, violent clashes between Hull FC and Hull Kingston Rovers fans led to a Rugby Football League enquiry. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/super_league/hull_kr/6282292.stm BBC SPORT | Rugby League | My Club | Hull KR | Authorities probe crowd trouble ] ] On 27 January 2008 Widnes fans calling themselves the "Casuals" fought with Wigan fans outside the Stobart stadium.Fact|date=October 2008 On 8 February 2008, Hull FC fans clashed with Warrington Wolves fans at the Halliwell Jones Stadium. [ [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/rugby-league/league-awaits-hull-crowd-trouble-reports-781063.html League awaits Hull crowd trouble reports - Rugby League, More Sports - The Independent ] ]

ee also

*Casuals
*Hooliganism
*Rugby League
*List of hooligan firms
*Football Hooliganism

References

Further reading

*Tordoff, Shaun (2002). "City Psychos: From the Monte Carlo Mob to the Silver Cod Squad - Four Decades of Terrace Terror", Milo Books, ISBN 978-1903854136


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