Why do hardcore football fans behave like rutting stags?
Sport spectators can let off steam by chanting and group bonding, but why do hardcore football fans turn to real violence?
by Martha Newson
Martha Newsom is a cognitive anthropologist. She is a Future Leaders Fellow at the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent, and a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion at the University of Oxford.
Written by Martha Newson