crowd disorder

There were at least three documented incidents of serious crowd disorder between 1938 and 1957.

It has been argued that standing encourages crowd disorder.

It is worth pausing to look at the degree of crowd disorder associated with these sports and the possible reasons for such profiles.

Against this, the largely 'blue-collar' sport of baseball is often affected by crowd disorder.

Fifa had already fined the Brazilians a minor sum for crowd disorder.

Four, the issues of demand, safety, crowd disorder and diversity, are summarised below:

Gambling and crowd disorder was customary but there is no question that Clarke and his boys were missionaries.

Soccer is the least violent sport of the three, but the one most synonymous with crowd disorder (Pilz, 1988:168-9).

These officers are specifically trained to deal with a variety of disorder situations, ranging from small protests to large-scale crowd disorder.

Disturbances such as these provided an intermittent focus of attention throughout the interwar years, and a number of grounds were closed because of crowd disorders.

On five occasions The Den was closed by the Football Association and the club has received numerous fines for crowd disorder.

It was soon realised that media reporting of crowd disorder boosted the sales of newspapers - a matter of importance in an increasingly competitive industry.

He used his findings to make a comparative analysis of political and football crowd disorders in London - the first comparative empirical study in this field.

"It's not a crowd disorder problem - it's a tragedy that occurred because something has gone wrong with the safety arrangements," said Richard Faulkner, an official of the Football Association.

The final was contested by Rangers and Celtic at Hampden Park, with the trophy being withheld by the Scottish Football Association following crowd disorder.

Dr Trivizas was one of the first academics to complete a systematic study of crowd disorders in England and their implications for the British system of criminal justice.

Crowd Disorder Drills The Police Department has been holding monthly citywide crowd disorder drills in preparation for any disturbances.

On 12 October 2010, Thomson abandoned the Italy vs Serbia UEFA Euro 2012 qualification match after seven minutes of play due to crowd disorder.

The game was also notable for serious crowd disorder between the two sets of fans after Gresley's opening goal which led to the game being delayed for 25 minutes as fighting spilled onto the pitch.

He was further able to show that similar events occurring in a variety of different types of crowd disorder were regarded very differently by the courts and were the subject of major discrepancies in sentencing.

He followed up this study of police and crowd behaviour with a detailed investigation of the ways in which offenders arrested as a result of various forms of crowd disorder were prosecuted and sentenced by the courts.

Dunning's and his co-workers' (1984) historical survey of Football Association minutes and reports contained in the Leicester Mercury also provides evidence of pitch invasions and other forms of crowd disorder as early as the 1890s.

There had been a rumbling discontent about misbehaviour at football matches, both on and off the field, throughout the 1920s and 1930s which came to a head in the late thirties with renewed accusations of declining sportsmanship and crowd disorders.

He took in with one wearily distasteful glance the crowded disorder of the rock-bound room which had been carved out of the wall of a cavern of artificial air, light, and heat which marked the single bubble of life in the vastness of a bleak world.