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ELI5: Football/soccer hooliganism: why it exists, and why it's so much less common than with other sports even in the same geographic/cultural setting?
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On why it's less common in other sports:
 
It's self-reinforcing. Hooligans do not go to a sports game to enjoy the spectacle. They go there to get into a fight. They know that there will be other people there looking for a fight, and so it's the sensible place for them to go.
 
Those who have tried going to curling matches to pick fights have wound up discovering that nobody wants to fight them there, and so they have stopped going. But if you find the right football/soccer game, you can get your itch scratched.
 
There were riots in Vancouver 2011 when the Canucks lost the Stanley cup. Thing is, this was not a reaction to the result. The word on the street and even in the media, damn them, was that there would probably be a riot after the game. And so all the worms came crawling out of the woodwork and there was a riot. Friend of mine told me about his teenage son coming down from his room dressed in very tattered clothes. Where are you going? Oh, he was going to go downtown to watch the game. Nuh-uh, you're grounded, young man.