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1985 Jul 3 - 1985 Jul 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1529
Home affairs (Football hooliganism: behaviour of British football fans abroad; interim report of Popplewell Inquiry into crowd safety and control at sports grounds) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 385
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Date Value Title
85 Jun 3 Mo Minor Home Affairs: Football Association General Secretary, Ted Croker, letter to Macfarlane (National Front involvement in football hooliganism) [extracts from 'Bulldog' magazine] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 3 We Major Home Affairs: Ingham minute to MT (Football membership cards) [football hooliganism: Football Trust views on cards] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 3 We Major Home Affairs: Football Association Chairman Bert Millichip letter to Brittan (football hooliganism: response to criticism of FA rule changes) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 4 Th Major Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Football League Survival Plan") [football hooliganism: no advance warning of League announcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 5 Fr Major Home Affairs: FCO letter to No.10 ("World Cup 1986") [concern at Mexican measures to prevent football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 5 Fr Major Home Affairs: Scottish Office letter to MOD (involvement of British Servicemen in football hooliganism) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 8 Mo Major Home Affairs: MT letter to Football Association Chairman Bert Millichip (Heysel Stadium disaster and Bradford City fire) [FA response to football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 8 Mo Major Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Video on Football Hooliganism: 10 am on 9 July") [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 10 We Major Home Affairs: Macfarlane letter to MT (football hooliganism: CCTV at football grounds and Football League "Survival Plan") [League drawing "battle lines" for "public argument with the Government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 10 We Major Home Affairs: MT personal minute to Brittan ("Football Violence") [measures for tackling football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 10 We Major Home Affairs: MT letter to Superintendent Calligan (video of crowd trouble at Huddersfield/Leeds match) [football hooliganism: "genuinely shocking" video] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 11 Th Major Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (involvement of British Servicemen in football hooliganism) [various unofficial reports but only two recorded incidents] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 12 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Macfarlane PS (meetings with football authorities and football writers and commentators) [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 16 Tu Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Football") [football hooliganism: advance copy of interim Popplewell Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 19 Fr Major Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Terry Neill") [football hooliganism: report on meeting with Neill] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 19 Fr Major Home Affairs: Macfarlane letter to MT ("Football Violence") [football hooliganism: CCTV and membership cards] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 19 Fr Major Home Affairs: Macfarlane letter to MT ("Luton v Millwall: Ruling of the FA Appeals Committee") [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 19 Fr Major Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Popplewell") [football hooliganism: review of interim report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 22 Mo Major Home Affairs: Home Office letter to Scotland Office ("Popplewell Inquiry: Interim Report") [football hooliganism: draft Commons statement; MT: "I must sit in" on Statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 23 Tu Major Home Affairs: Ingham minute to MT ("Football Finances") [football hooliganism: "I was the source of the weekend newspaper stories which warned the FA/FL from pleading poverty"] [declassified Dec 2014]