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Recent Examples of hooliganism
Since 1985, drinking alcohol in view of the pitch has been banned in men’s professional football in England and Wales, a relic of moral panic amid rampant hooliganism.
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Lela London, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
With hooliganism rife in English soccer throughout the 1980s and the events of Heysel still fresh in the memory, there were immediate attempts to assign blame on the Liverpool fans and defend policing at the match.
—Steve Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
In 2011, he was fined and banned from Romanian stadiums for six months after being accused of hooliganism and racist chants during a soccer match between Romania and Bosnia.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 16 May 2025
An officer with the UK’s Metropolitan police force has been sacked for football hooliganism and given a three-year ban from matches.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
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In 1988, federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa indicted Noriega on racketeering, drug smuggling and money laundering charges.—
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Drake has been accused of participating in a racketeering conspiracy built around the online casino Stake.—
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The customers that applied to make the switch to Trident are a collection of the rich, the powerful and, in some cases, those accused of criminality.—
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If there is criminality, those people responsible will pay a steep price!—
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Its investigative arm reviews officer misconduct complaints, and is expected to one day replace the police department’s internal affairs division.—
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The panel assessed the LAPD’s handling of discipline, misconduct complaints, excessive force by officers and other issues.—
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This doesn’t mean that day-care fraud has not taken place in Minneapolis—there’s a years-long history of such malfeasance, and both state and federal law enforcement have convicted dozens of offenders, as Kash Patel subsequently pointed out.—
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In the past year, some out-of-power former officials and their allies have been implying the 2024 audit is so severely late because of incompetence or malfeasance.—
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The charges Dasjanae Teyona Timmons, a 23-year-old with a Jessup address, and Dahmira Monya Laboo, another 23-year-old with a Severn address, were identified as suspects in the crime.—
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Tyrone Williams faces 10 charges in Roxbury District Court, including multiple assault and firearms charges, compounded by having a previous violent crime or drug crime conviction.—
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“Hooliganism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooliganism. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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