| History of soccer recalls many accidents and | | | | before or after football matches, but they also may |
| disasters. The atmosphere at the football matches is | | | | occur at pre-arranged locations in order to avoid police, |
| more than often very heated, resembling a battlefield. | | | | and not necessarily at the stadiums. Sometimes |
| Soccer fans of different groups watch with close | | | | human crushes occur, in which people might be |
| attention the game of their favorite team, and often | | | | crushed to death. Such an unfortunate event has |
| curse the opponents, which can sometimes lead to | | | | happened in Hillsborough on April 15, 1989, causing the |
| fights of different sport fans. Such events happened | | | | death of 96 people. The unprecedented influx of |
| before and can happen again in situations, where | | | | thousands of fans through a narrow tunnel leading to |
| watchers loose control in overcrowded places. The | | | | the stadium has caused a major crush, where people |
| control over crowd at the stadiums is often too | | | | were being pressed up against the fencing by the |
| difficult: at the games of famous teams of the Premier | | | | weight of the crowd behind them. The overcrowding |
| League the stadiums are overcrowded. | | | | of people caused the fatal crash. |
| Big stadiums around the world may contain an | | | | In a heated atmosphere of a football match, many |
| enormous number of people: for instance, the capacity | | | | people may loose control over their feelings and |
| of Wembley Stadium is 90,000 people, and of Old | | | | behavior. Many accidents and acts of hooliganism |
| Trafford Stadium – 76,000. The capacity of Luzhniki | | | | occur in overcrowded places, such as stadiums. In |
| Stadium in Russia is nearly 85,000 people, and of | | | | such cases, an intense crowd control is needed in |
| Stadio Olimpico in Rome- 82,000. This huge number of | | | | order to maintain the peace and prevent disasters. |
| people is difficult to organize and control; crowd control | | | | Sometimes these events are recorded and later on |
| problems often led to fights and riots. | | | | published in Soccer TV clips. Accidents and disasters, |
| Soccer news often reports on Hooliganism by football | | | | which occur on stadiums, are remembered as |
| supporters often leads to disasters. Fights between | | | | unnecessary deaths, which could have been avoided. |
| supporters of rival teams sometimes take place | | | | Overcrowded stadiums can easily lead to disasters. |