Football, a game of passion, rivalry and loyalty.

But decades ago, beneath the cheers and the chance,

lay a different kind of warfare called hooliganism.

On a match day, everyone was your enemy.

We'll uncover the brutal, bloody battles where punching below the belt was a way of life.

It was just a die of my him. Gangster presents hooligans.

They were destroying the football club.

The game I alone.

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You couldn't blame this woman in her 30s for feeling apprehensive about what lay ahead.

It was the most important day of her life. She was making a commitment, motivated by love.

She arrived at a church beside the river year in Norwich, England.

And she would lie down prostrate.

Then two clerks would stand before the altar

and they would sing a full litany for everybody to hear

with the choir responding

and people in the congregation would be asked to pray.

Julian, as she was known,

underwent a sacred ritual.

The bishop dressed in his priestly vestments,

would walk around Julian three times,

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