Welcome, everybody to soccer 101. My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week, boy, boy, it is a topic. A word that looms large in football history and not in a good way.

Hooliganism. You hear it in terms of the bad old days. There are plenty of stories of it rearing its ugly head in the 1970s and 1980s, but certainly recently and still today.

Be it club or international, hooligan groups maintain a presence in global soccer. But how did it first come to be? Why does it remain? Where is it most prominence? Those questions and many more answered. Here with me to do so is a man who, in honor of today's topic is recording. Let me check. Yeah, shirtless with a union jack tattooed on the side of his head and an open can of logger. It's Graham Ruffin. Hello, Graham. Hello, Taylor. Yeah, it was either that or my balaclava and my finest stone island attire. I'm ready to go. Let's drive to Millwall. That's what we're doing, right? If you, exactly, well said with Millwall. If you'd showed up, like fully face covered. I'm not sure how I would have responded to that when you can't when the video

first appeared and you were just, yeah, full balaclava with a flag behind you, I might have been concerned.

This is the real me, Taylor. I've had to oppress it for too long, frankly. And so this is my review.

Yes, my old mannered Graham, who loves staying inside and having clean sneakers, loves clean sneakers, actually.

Maybe that is a part of being in a football firm, it seems.

Graham, let's talk hooligans, shall we? And let's start with a sort of history of the term itself,

because to my research research there's no specific

thing that like definitely is the origin of the term the closest I could find is that there is a

it was like a name of a gang basically of like Patrick Hulahan I believe it was or maybe Hooligan

we're not entirely sure,

but either way, they caused some unrest, they would get into drunken fights, and they became

hooligans. So first of all, that word hooligan, right? So in British dialect, that is something

that is very much associated with football, but it transcends football, right? It's a word

that's not directly linked to football. Is that, is that a British word? Because it kind of

sounds like it is. Is that something that kind of outside of American soccer? I know American

soccer fan know what hooliganism is, but is that a British term, you would say? I would say

removed from like the American soccer perspective, you hear it as

like either like an outdated term. I feel like in 1950s like, oh, you hooligans, you rap scallions.

Right. There's that one. And then I do think it is sort of a general sports fan might know it as a like,

oh yeah, British people drinking and screaming at each other

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