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Archive for the ‘Hooliganwatch™’ Category


Hooliganwatch™: On Location with England

June 13th, 2006 | By: Peter | 24 Comments »

A look at the destructive celebration of the England faithful in Frankfurt after their win against Paraguay.

Hooliganwatch™: Stop Picking on our Thugs

June 6th, 2006 | By: WC Bob | 8 Comments »

Things have been quieter than normal here at Hooliganwatch™ headquarters. Mere hours ahead of the start of the World Cup and there is nary a sign of the apocalypse on the rough and tumble streets of Berlin. Outside of a mother spanking her child, we’ve seen little violence and not a single person [...]

Hooliganwatch™: The Final Preparations

May 24th, 2006 | By: WC Bob | No Comments »

The final push to the World Cup has begun and the Hooliganwatch™ phones have been ringing off the hook. Stories about the apocalypse, fights, racism, and other depressing things have been abundant lately and frankly we haven’t been able to keep up with them all. After all, we are busy sharpening our chainsaws [...]

Hooliganwatch™: Kick Ahead – Any Head

May 17th, 2006 | By: WC Bob | 2 Comments »

The clock is ticking and those nasty hooligans are making their final preparations for the World Cup in Germany. The week’s big news comes from Hooliganwatch™ regular Poland where more than 200 people were arrested following a match in Warsaw. No reports of chainsaws in use, but fans tried to break into a [...]

Hooliganwatch™: The Enemy Within

May 11th, 2006 | By: WC Bob | 3 Comments »

The news is never pleasant at Hooliganwatch™ headquarters. This past week was an especially tiring one. There was talk of the growing east-west hooligan divide with authorities especially fearful of cretins from Eastern Europe showing up at the World Cup to cause trouble. While a lot of time and effort is being [...]

Hooliganwatch™: “Tell the English fans we are coming to Germany to hunt them down”

May 1st, 2006 | By: WC Bob | 42 Comments »

If you like fighting it out with knives, axes, truncheons and your fists, then some hooligans in Poland want to get to know you in Germany during the World Cup. Polish hooligans are making their final preparations for the fun this summer even going so far as to try to organize “hooligan leagues” and [...]

Hooliganwatch™: Attack Raises Concerns, Poles Crack Down

April 26th, 2006 | By: WC Bob | 1 Comment »

A recent attack on an Ethiopian-born man in Potsdam has everyone on edge as the World Cup approaches. The brutal attack left the man in a coma and was believed to have been racially motivated. With increasing fears that Neo-Nazis are going to wreak havoc this summer, German officials were quick to condemn [...]

Hooliganwatch™: Baseball Bats, Knives, Chainsaws and Cell Phones

April 20th, 2006 | By: WC Bob | 9 Comments »

It was a rather slow news week in the Hooliganwatch™ central offices, but that doesn’t mean the bad guys aren’t out there making their World Cup plans. As this article points out, the Germans are taking the threat very seriously with more than 250,000 police on duty during the tournament. Their concern: [...]

Hooliganwatch™: Some Strange Bedfellows

April 13th, 2006 | By: WC Bob | 2 Comments »

Another depressing installment of Hooliganwatch™. The news this week is that some Neo-Nazi groups in Germany are taking the World Cup motto “A Time to Make Friends” to heart. The NPD party, a right-wing extremist group, plans to attach itself to Iran because they admire the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has referred [...]

Hooliganwatch™: Croatia Hooligans Free to Travel to Germany

April 6th, 2006 | By: WC Bob | 6 Comments »

While much attention has been paid to English hooligans who are banned from going to the World Cup, Croatian hooligans will be allowed to travel to Germany with little difficulty according to papers in Zagreb on Wednesday. There is currently a draft law in Croatia calling upon the creation of a hooligan database, but [...]






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