Passports are confiscated if you misbehave at a sports match? My God.
That spin does kinda trivialize the conduct of hooligans - things like simple assault or battery won't be enough, it's more like if you're involved in a specific football hooligan gang, and conspire to do grevious bodily harm and/or arrange organized fights between gangs, and you must have a prior conviction too: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...