Due to Manchester United being banned from playing their first two home matches in Old Trafford, after hooligans had thrown knives into the away section at a match at the end of the previous season, their opening "home" games were played at Anfield and the Victoria Ground.
He has been the scientific supervisor of research teams on Hooliganism (1986–88), on Juvenile Detainees (1993-94 and Follow-up research 1999-2002), on Female Detainees (1994–96), on Juvenile Gangs in Athens (2002-2004) and on Euthanasia (2005-2007).
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1991's Among the Thugs is purportedly an "insider's" account of the world of (primarily) English football hooliganism.
The incident made national news, and the football club and Regina's mayor Pat Fiacco both denounced the vandalism as an "isolated incident" of "hooliganism".
Although it was denied by local and FIFA organisers, it was widely rumoured that the stadium had been chosen for all of England's group matches as a way to control their reputation at the time for hooliganism.