football hooligan
(UK) A violent football (soccer) fan who routinely fights with supporters of opposing teams and/or with police, often the member of a firm.
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And a lot of "These are ordinary people showing their pride", while every news piece that spoke to them was like "Local petty criminal/football hooligan/Combat 18 member/sex offender, Jimmy Hatecrime..."
I did like that story about a “local character” who’d died putting them up that mentioned offhand he’d written several shite books about being a football hooligan in the 80s
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(UK) A violent football (soccer) fan who routinely fights with supporters of opposing teams and/or with police, often the member of a firm.
“And a lot of "These are ordinary people showing their pride", while every news piece that spoke to them was like "Local petty criminal/football hooligan/Combat 18 member/sex offender, Jimmy Hatecrime..."”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I did like that story about a “local character” who’d died putting them up that mentioned offhand he’d written several shite books about being a football hooligan in the 80s”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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