hooligan firm

plural hooligan firms

1. group that participates in football hooliganism or other sports-related hooliganism

   And are you part of a hooligan firm or do you try and stay out of trouble?

   2013, James Bannon, Running with the Firm, Random House, →ISBN, page 233

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   Being involved with the most feared, vicious, brutal and violent hooligan firm in the country is a buzz that cannot be given to you by any amount of drink or drugs.

   2011, Andrew Woods, No One Likes Us, We Don't Care: True Stories from Millwall, Britain's Most Notorious Football Holigans, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN, page 7

   The only variation comes in the form of which hooligan firm the author belonged to, which will be presented as the toughest and most loyal gang in the country.

   2018, Cyprian Piskurek, Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures: Slum Sport, Slum People?, Springer, →ISBN, page 177

   During the build-up to the UEFA European Championship tournament in 2016, as part of a more prolonged online campaign to disseminate gendered ideological values and nationalist propaganda, one prominent Russian hooligan firm – the 'Gladiators' of Spartak Moscow – published a short video clip on YouTube.

   2021, Katherine Dashper, Sport, Gender and Mega-Events, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 83

   Synonyms: football firm