In general it is no different to any other village, town or city ANYWHERE. It is just a question of scale. The bigger the population the more nutters it has...& the more nutters that go to footy & the 'harder' they are perceived.
In reality the top20/100k hardest v the top20/100k hardest ANYWHERE else will result in a fairly even battle.
Since my uni days. Early nineties. Cov has always had a reputation. Cov in early nineties was rough as hell. I lived in hillfields singer hall's of residence. Just behind highfield road. That was rough times has pros ask me to spend my student grant on them. Hillfields was rough.