The spectrum of hooliganism in the British stadiums I a research experience

Abstract

The manuscript evokes an experience of postdoctoral research, lived during the second semester of 2018, at the University of Birmingham. It seeks to contextualize the scenario of changings in the last three decades in the English football that, through the Premier League model, in a certain way revolutionized the practice and the assistance of the football spectacle in the country and, by extension, in prominent parts of Europe and the world. The backstage of the transformations is compared with personal experiences inside the stadiums and arenas, not only in England, but also in Great-Britain and United Kingdom. The observations experienced allow to reconstitute the steps of the investigation during this period, in order to share with more details, the memories of what was seen, heard and lived. The suggestion included in this paper argues that, contrary to the well succeeded gentrification process of domination and control in the arenas, the fandom dynamics do not avoid in a whole sense the spectrum of hooliganism, what means an anti-sports and anti-civilization phenomena that remains always as a dammed potential in the management of club rivalries in local and regional level, as well as in national and international sphere.