Association football
is broadly perceived as a game riddled with spectator violence.
While
violence does occur, it is usually exaggerated by the media.
Moreover,
the problem affects many sports across Australian society and we
suspect
that more intense, frequent and sustained violence occurs in
cricket,
Australian rules and rugby league crowds.
A typical media response
to crowd violence in 'Australian' codes is to reduce it to 'boys
being
boys' or to invidualise the problem as being the fault of
drunken yobs.
On the other hand soccer crowd violence is usually depicted as
systemic
– the fault of soccer itself or the ethnic communities that
play
it.
We will keep tabs
on this issue by recording media reports of spectator violence
across
football codes and other sport in Australia.
Click on a link below to go to the relevant sport.
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