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Football Hooliganism is really more about social identity and rites of license. The game itself is just a reason or base for it to happen. If chess was just as popular and had just as many supporters, it would happen just the same. I almost get the feeling it could be partially because European societies may feel a little oppressed and not so free, so when there is a sporting event(like football), these people feel better in "numbers" and usually will follow the core group leaders and end up causing trouble because they feel it's the one time they can do it and get away with it, possibly because of weak security standards.
Just like protests & rallies, there's a good number of participants who are just "following" the rest of the people to feel apart of an identity.
You want to get rid of it? Maybe not having such a whimpy police and security and actually firing off some rounds in the air to scare some people may do the trick. Extreme, but only way to tame a wild beast is sometimes with force.
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