Everyone knows that British soccer fans are hooligans. Those in doubt need only consider an incident after a Scottish Cup Final played, almost inevitably, between the Glasgow duo of Rangers and Celtic. These clubs are soccer's representatives in the religious bigotry which permeates Scotland, Celtic being a Catholic-based side and Rangers a hard-line Protestant team who between 1914 and 1984 have selected only two Catholic players, one non-practising and the other by mistake. With both religious and local supremacy at stake the fans of these clubs have a large emotional attachment to their teams and any threat to their football can have serious consequences. At full time in the game the scores were level and the spectators eagerly anticipated extra time as had been falsely advertised in the press. When it became apparent that the match was not going to continue, angry fans began to invade the pitch. Eventually some six thousand of them were fighting each other, assaulting the police, pulling down barricades and goalposts, setting fire to the payboxes, and attacking the firemen who came to deal with the blaze. One hundred and eighteen people finished up in hospital and only by a miracle was no one killed. A typical day in the life of a modern football hooligan?