Researchers put English football years ahead of Europe
English football is light years ahead of Europe when it comes to tackling fan violence, according to new research published this week by Teesside University.Dr Kevin Dixon, of Teesside University, who carried out the study with Professor Ellis Cashmore, suggests continental Europe is well behind its English counterpart and at the stage where English football was in the 1970s and 1980s. Their research, ‘Why football violence made a comeback in continental Europe but spared England’, has been published in the Soccer & Society journal