After the Second World War, the second part of the 1960s saw some sort of alliances being formed between groups of young men from the suburbs, boys with a bad background. These fans located themselves at the goal-end terraces of football stadiums. They considered it to be their territory and proceeded to take certain measures that would ensure older spectators and rival fans would not have access. The evolving of these youth ends and their function in protecting local masculine reputations contributed to the development of a national network of gang rivalries that were concentrating on football.
For the teenager that were part of these groups, their own performance in beating or intimidating rival gangs began to become more vital than the results of the teams they were supposed to have come and support. By the late-1980s most escalated confrontations between fans of opposite sides no longer occurred over territories inside grounds.
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