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Each May brings the climax of the English football season — the FA Cup Final. Until recently, the winners would automatically have qualified to play in Europe, but since the deaths resulting from crowd disorders when Liverpool played Juventus at the Heysel stadium in 1985 this has not been so.
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Marsh, P. (1978) The Rules of Disorder (RKP).
Pearson, G. (1983) Hooligan (Macmillan).
Taylor, I. (1982) ‘On the Soccer Violence Question’ in D. Hargreaves Sport, Culture and Ideology (RKP)
Williams, J. (1984) Hooligans Abroad (RKP).
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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill
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McNeill, P. (1991). Football Hooliganism. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_16
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