A football firm is an organized gang – mostly supporting a football club – that engage in fights with firms supporting other clubs. The fights mostly take place far away from the football grounds to make it as hard as possible for police and other law enforcement to interrupt. Football firm violence has in many countries replaced the more unorganized violence related to sports, though in the public eye both forms of violence are considered hooliganism. A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, in current usage, engage in illegal activities. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ...

Clothing

Main article: Casuals

To avoid attracting the attention of police, many UK hooligans began to wear expensive European designer clothing in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Designers popular with UK football firms over the years have included, Pringle, Fred Perry, Le Coq Sportif, Aquascutum, Burberry, Lacoste, Ralph Lauren and many others. A BBC investigation in 2002 suggested that the most popular label of them all at the time, was Stone Island. Casuals are an element of football support that first evolved in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Britain and is typified by the wearing of expensive European designer clothing. ... Pringle may refer to: Pringles brand potato chips Pringle, South Dakota Pringle, Pennsylvania John Pringle (1707-1782), physician This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Fred Perry hitting a backhand volley Frederick John Perry (May 18, 1909 - February 2, 1995) was an English tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. ... Le Coq Sportif (translated in English as The Sporting Rooster (or Cock) is a French company producing sports equipment such as shoes and T-shirts. ... A ladies Burberry handbag in the companys signature check pattern Burberry is a U.K. based outfitter, manufacturing clothing and other apparel, often in a distinctive check pattern, that has become one of its most common copied trademarks. ... The Lacoste logo Lacoste is a French owned apparel company, founded in 1933. ... Cover Time magazine Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz on October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive. ... Stone Island was the de-rigeur garment of clothing to be worn by any self respecting football hooligan during the 1990s and, to a lesser extent, still is today. ...

The culture revolving around the clothing style became known as Casual, and the wearers of designer clothing became known as Casuals. Casuals are an element of football support that first evolved in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Britain and is typified by the wearing of expensive European designer clothing. ...

Relations with extreme political groups

Football firms, especially southern and eastern European firms, are often linked with extreme right political groups. The firms of the following teams are well-known for their relations with extreme right political groups: Chelsea (Headhunters) (although Chelsea's most famous hooligan 'One-Armed Babs' was mixed-race), Rangers, Oldham Athletic (Fine Young Casuals), Real Madrid (Ultras Sur), Lazio (Curva Nord) and Berlin club BFC Dynamo Berlin (Koma Kolonne),Spartak Moscow (Gladiators, Flints Crew), Dynamo Moscow (Moscow Hit Squad), CSKA Moscow (Kids, Nazi-troop). In Sweden IFK Gothenburg's firm "Wisemen" has been proven to have close contact and received help from militant organizations in Northern Ireland. The term far-right refers to the relative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. ... Chelsea Football Club (also known as The Blues or previously as The Pensioners), founded in 1905, are an English Premier League football team. ... The Chelsea Headhunters are a football firm that are linked to the London football team Chelsea F.C. Nearly all major football teams in Britain have suffered from violence amongst fans and many teams have a specific gang (called a firm or Casuals in Scotland) attached to that team, comprising... Rangers Football Club are a football club from Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premier League. ... Oldham Athletic Association Football Club are an English football club based at Boundary Park, Furtherwood Road, in Oldham, Greater Manchester. ... Real Madrid C.F. is a Spanish sports club best known for its football team which was ranked as The 20th Centurys Best Club by FIFA. The club, which went in place of the Spanish FA, was also one of the founding members of FIFA. They play their home... S.S. Lazio (Italian: Società Sportiva Lazio SpA) is an Italian sports club based in Rome, Latium. ... Berlin is the capital city and a state of Germany. ... BFC Dynamo Berlin is a German football club and is the successor organization to the club that played in East Berlin as Dynamo Berlin from 1954 to 1966. ... FC Spartak Moscow (Russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва) is considered to be one of the greatest football teams in Soviet and Russian history. ... Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, Dinamo Moskva, Russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club, based in Moscow. ... CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Army Club Moscow, Russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian sports club, often referred to as Red Army for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army. ... IFK Göteborg is a Swedish football club based in Gothenburg. ... Motto: (French for God and my right)2 Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (De facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official language(s) English (De facto), Irish, Ulster Scots 3 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Office suspended...

Other firms are known for their multicultural make-up, like the firms of Arsenal (Gooners), Tottenham Hotspur (N17s, Yidd0s), West Ham United (Inter City Firm), Ajax Amsterdam (F-Side) and Feyenoord Rotterdam (SCF). In the past there have been some occasions where Feyenoord supporters have shown up at demonstrations and get togethers of Neo Nazi groups to invoke clashes. In Minsk, Belarus, one of the popular footbal teams, FC MTZ-RIPO, draws its support from antifa groups. Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in north London. ... Tottenham Hotspur Football Club are an English football club who play in the FA Premier League. ... West Ham United Football Club is a professional English football club based in Upton Park, Newham, East London. ... The Inter City Firm (ICF) was a UK football firm affiliated to West Ham United. ... Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Euronext: AJAX) also referred to as Ajax Amsterdam, AFC Ajax, or simply Ajax (pronounced Ah-yahx), is a football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands. ... Feyenoord Rotterdam is a popular Dutch football club from the city of Rotterdam. ... The term Neo-Nazism is used to refer to any social or political movement seeking to revive Nazism or a racist form of Fascism, and which postdates the Second World War. ... For things named after Minsk, see Minsk (disambiguation) The Mariinsky Cathedral, 1732 Minsk (Belarusian: Менск, Мінск; Russian: Минск) (population 1. ... FC MTZ-RIPO is a Belarusian Premier League football team (formerly known as FC Traktor and FC MTZ), part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanovs soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga champion FBK Kaunas. ... The word Antifa is derived from Antifaschismus, German for anti-fascism. // Soviet era Antifa During the 1920s, 30s, and 40s the Soviet Union sponsored various anti-fascist movements, usually using the name Antifa to describe the groups. ...

References in popular culture

Football hooliganism has been featured in films such as The Firm and Green Street (the latter featuring fictional firms based upon arguably two of the most famous "firms", West Ham's Inter City Firm (ICF) and Millwall's The Treatment), as well as books including The Football Factory. Some contend that such media uses have the effect of glamorising football hooliganism. The Firm is a 1988 TV film by Alan Clarke. ... Green Street is a 2005 film, starring Elijah Wood and Charlie Hunnam, about football hooliganism in England. ... Promotional poster for The Football Factory The Football Factory is a 2004 British film, directed by Nick Love and starring Danny Dyer and Frank Harper. ...

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See also

• Football hooligans
• Hooliganism
• Ultras
• Skinhead

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Notes and references

External links

• Three-part BBC2 investigation on football firms from 2002
• Running with the 'Naughty Forty', part of the BBC2 2002 investigation

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