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(1) When I visited England last year, I wanted to attend a football match (football in England is what is called soccer in the U.S.). (2) My mother wouldn’t let me. (3) She tells me, “the fans are much too violent.” (4) I really wanted to go so I did some research on English fans’ violence.

(5) Through my research I realized that my mother would never let me go to a game. (6) But beyond that, felt sad that hooliganism was such a reality in the English game. (7) They cause riots, and innocent foot- ball fans are sometimes injured by them when football- related fights get out of control.

(8) England had tried all sorts of remedies to stop the violence, but they couldn’t stop hooliganism from increasing. (9) The officials tried creating lists of people banned from stadiums. (10) At international matches some known hooligans weren’t even allowed into the country. (11) Some say that the older generation of hooligans was teaching the younger. (12) It is just human nature and crowd mentality. (13) But there was an argument that rang even more true for me: poverty was an underlying cause. (14) Economic data indicating that the football teams with the highest rate of violence were situated in the poorest areas.