LongsightM13 said:
Is that pathetic cockney rag WUM 'Giuseppe' still here?
I thought he was getting banned last night after the mods and others played with him for a bit?
Sorry why should I get banned?
-- Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:15 pm --
mike channon´s windmill said:
Which if you read my post carefully I actually emphasise in parenthesis. I was replying to the inference that Englishmen are hooligans, when infact it is Italian nationals who indulge with far more alacrity in the practice of football hooliganism
The term hooligan has been used since at least the mid 1890s—when it was used to describe the name of a street gang in London—at approximately the same time as Manchester's street gangs, known as the "Scuttlers" were gaining notoriety. The first use of the term is unknown, but the word first appeared in print in London police-court reports in 1894 referring to the name of a gang of youths in the Lambeth area of London—the Hooligan Boys, and later—the O'Hooligan Boys. In August 1898 a murder in Lambeth committed by a member of the gang drew further attention to the word which was immediately popularized by the press. The London-based newspaper Daily Graphic wrote in an article on 22 August 1898, "The avalanche of brutality which, under the name of 'Hooliganism' ... has cast such a dire slur on the social records of South London".
The word hooliganism and hooligan began to be associated with violence in sports, in particular from the 1980s in the UK with football hooliganism. However, one of the earliest known instances of crowd violence at a sporting event took place in ancient Constantinople. Two chariot racing factions, the Blues and the Greens, were involved in the Nika riots which lasted around a week in 532 CE; nearly half the city was burned or destroyed in addition to tens of thousands of deaths
