A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management: Reforming Legal and Policing Responses to Risk.

Here, the authors acknowledge how "hooliganism" lacks a universally agreed-upon definition and, consequently, one must exercise caution "when trying to identify national trends in football-related "public disorder" (p. 45) such as increases in violence or football-related offences. Considering that this type of football events often represents circuits of "knowledge" or "policy-transfer", this underpins why the book's findings can be valuable for those managing football crowds more internationally, as the authors suggest (p. 15). Overall, this book - and its rich material - provides an exceptional insight into the complexity of football fan cultures and, indeed, the legal, social psychological and policing-related issues that continue to surround the present-day football world in the UK and beyond. [Extracted from the article]