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| | Fact Sheet 1: Football and Football Hooliganism: Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research: University of Leicester |
 | | However, concern was reignited in 2002 by incidents involving fans in and around football stadia, especially in terms of missile throwing and supporter intrusions onto the field. |
| | While English fans were routinely causing problems on the continent in the 1970s and 1980s, for example, there were no serious instances at all of foreign fan hooliganism during their own regular visits to England during that time. |
| | Indeed, as football crowds have continued to rise in England, and as perimeter fences have given way to surveillance cameras and new catch-all offences for hooliganism, match arrests, and the size of police commitments at English football, have steadily declined. |
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