Where hooliganism was once described as 'the English disease', we now set an example for others to follow."

The targets of such attacks has been the 'English disease' which allegedly plagues the game.

Our Group has always maintained that this is not an English disease but a European problem.

"In France we call it the English disease."

"Know what the English disease is?"

Soccer authorities in London have adopted a plan they hope will be a further palliative for what has become known as the "English disease."

It is a European problem, as we have always said, not an English disease, so we all have responsibility to bear.

The French dubbed it "the English disease."

Have the British applied to the International Court of Justice about the English disease?

Examples of the English disease are:

The best and effective defence is to use the press, blacken their name, fight the English disease of overzealousness, cut their budgets, strengthen protective law.

It is becoming an English disease, to which at least the Welsh and Scots do not subscribe.

English disease may refer to:

He looked at my pityingly, no doubt thinking that I was succumbing to the English diseases, amateurism and laziness.

The resulting book, "The English Disease," published in 1982, contains prescriptions that are readily transferable to China.

Beginning in at least the 1960s, the UK had a reputation worldwide for football hooliganism; the phenomenon was often dubbed the English Disease.

The English disease is spreading to Germany and the Netherlands and even to Swedish men in this year's European championships.

But Suede thinks qualities like self-consciousness, stylization and pretentiousness aren't an English disease so much as an English blessing.

Notwithstanding official spelling rules, some Dutch people nowadays tend to write the parts of a compound separately, a practice sometimes dubbed de Engelse ziekte (the English disease).

English disease (Dutch: Engelse ziekte) is a pejorative term for the effect of the English language on the use of linguistic compounds in written Dutch.

Both are sometimes known as the "English Disease," after the disorder caused by English fans travelling abroad to support either their club or national team in the 1970s and 1980s.

The German disease, the French disease, the Polish disease, the Portuguese disease and the English disease are all the same disease - Syphilis.

But now, he says, his attention is on his first solo show of paintings and drawing, "The English Disease," which can be seen at the Casola Gallery in Peekskill through June 19.

AFTER HEYSEL, ENGLISH SOC-cer clubs were banned from Europe, where football violence is known as "the English disease."

"British television has been an integral part of the British disease."

Good old British diseases not enough for kids these days, eh?'

One of the many British diseases is surly and unwelcoming service.

I fear it's part of a British disease.

Its anarchic labor relations were largely responsible for what became known in the rest of the world as "the British disease."

The new British disease - management extremism and militancy.

So what does our analysis tell us about the underlying, or basic causes of the so-called 'British disease'?

"As a society we have to make sure that this form of what we often call binge drinking doesn't become the new British disease."

At the time, the company seemed to personify the "British disease" - overmanning, lack of investment, and bad management.

It's called thinking for the long term instead of enriching your fat greedy face in the short term, the British disease.

Did Thatcher cause what was known universally as the 'British Disease'?

It is, it said, "an old British disease that lies behind much of our industrial decline into not-so-genteel poverty."

Short-termism became the British disease.

The British disease.

In a paper, "Has the United States Caught the British Disease?"

You may have heard of it, a British disease which immediately renders even the most serious of subjects to whimsy, irony and satire.

There is one obvious solution, and that is to infect these vast new market economies - as fast as possible - with the British disease.

Vandalism, a twentieth-century British disease.

A decade ago it became fashionable for economic gurus to worry about "the British disease," the apparent tendency of mature industrial economies to lose vigor.

'He tells us we are suffering from the British disease of self-deprecation - the British people's instinct for talking the country down.

There have been claims of a productivity miracle in British manufacturing and that the 'British disease' has been banished.

Its the "British Disease".

Well, you're suffering from, if I may put it that crudely, of a well-known British disease of a lack of self-regard in a sense.

The library, Mr. Alsop said, "gets away from the British disease of making high-tech architecture, with all the cables, glass and steel."

LEAD: 'They used, when I first came in, to talk about us in terms of the British disease.