No matter what the causes, from the mid-1980s violence was endemic in and around soccer grounds throughout England. With tiny closed-circuit tv and mainly indifferent policing, hooligan 'firms' experienced carte blanche to set about one another anywhere they achieved. Certainly, terrace violence experienced obtained a specific glamour using the screening of the famous documentary - Hooligan - which followed the exploits of West Ham's Inter City Organization.
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