Thursday, June 19, 2008

Uncivilising influence / New Statesman, 5 June 2008
http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/06/female-fans-women-football
Katie Wake
"The 2007-2008 football season has drawn to a dramatic close, with riot police repeatedly deployed to disperse hooligans. There was a difference, however. Twenty years after government initiatives sought to attract women to matches, in the hope that they would be a civilising influence on male fans, in many recent incidents women have been prominent among the troublemakers."