When we suddenly “snap” and become violent, many of us feel that our outburst is wrong. We may find it deeply out of character. We often feel remorse right afterward. So what’s going on here?
To many modern fans, reared on a game where crowds are often dispassionate tourists, players overly protected and referees the agents of the authorities’ aims to make football as bloodless as possible, the past must look like a foreign country. The days of swaying crowds seething with a palpable …