How To Use Hooligan In A Sentence

Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.
Two years ago, he admitted the police had been caught out by a spate of petty hooliganism, but this year he said police leave had been cancelled and extra officers would be on duty until Bonfire Night and beyond.
Football hooligans ran riot through the town.
Nowadays it is the footballers who behave like oafs off the field, while rugby players act like hooligans on it.

Teenage hooligans have been waging a campaign against contractors on a Waterside building site.
A football hooligan jailed for attempting to murder a man was a danger to the public, according to a police officer who helped to snare him.
They were harridans, engaged in a harangue of hermeneutics, harpooning his hyperbolic sense of hagiocracy, calling him a haggard hooligan hamming up a heedless hegemonic hullabaloo. Martin Marks: Bushenschadenfreude: Where has it all Gone?
There was nothing unusual about any of this and no doubt the hooligan gangs of both clubs were eager for more trouble after the game.
The Japanese authorities had feared an invasion of English hooligans, but there has been little trouble so far.
While police presence was a deterrent to hooliganism at the beach or Island grounds where the trade fair is being held, the same could not be said about the MTC buses with footpath travel and it was a day of endless hooting of horns.
Of course it's possible to unstick the rear wheels in corners, but you've really got to be going after hooligan thrills.
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He denied involvement in football hooliganism. Times, Sunday Times
At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
He was rolled by a group of hooligans.
So it's a bit of a shock to discover that la belle France has its own hooligan element. Times, Sunday Times
Scrutiny Hooligans is google-bombing Charles Taylor for Congress. March 2006
I thought the bad old days of football hooliganism were behind us. Times, Sunday Times
I cannot understand the mentality of football hooligans.
Although hard, the work was rewarding and enjoyable: I spent most of my time playing sports or going out on field trips with gangs of little hooligans.
The government is to get tough on hooligans who cause mayhem with fireworks.
Their names had been etched into the glass but the pane was shattered by hooligans who climbed onto scaffolding and kicked in the windows.
For fretful parents, they were a hangout for hooligans cutting class to play Pac-Man, losing hours and quarters that could be spent in the fresh air and wholesome sunshine.
Perhaps one final vignette can move us closer to a balanced view of the Hooligan's weaponry.
It is mostly our own carelessness, ignorance, gullibility and cheeseparing that allows criminals, hooligans and others to run riot. Times, Sunday Times
Leading this bunch of hooligans, a young Genoese lawyer called Giuseppe Mazzini was soon caught and offered exile or exile. American Connections
I am a football supporter and I have to often explain that I'm not one of the hooligan sort because we'll all get tarred with the same brush when there's trouble.
Hereford 0. Pitch invasion foiled ... police uncover soccer hooligans' plan.
Italy's sports minister has demanded that clubs take immediate steps to tackle hooliganism.
Over the past two Sundays, Williams's disturbing 10-month-long expose of Britain's hooligan underworld has made compulsive viewing on BBC2.
My dad stopped going in the '80s because scary away fans brought hooligans.
Such rowdy, ruffianly, and apparently motiveless violence has a much longer history than the term hooligan.
With contributions from retired detectives and reformed criminals, the film offers a grim insight into smuggling, drugs dealing and organised football hooliganism. Times, Sunday Times
They said that hooligans from the city took advantage of the chaos to wreak havoc. Times, Sunday Times
A drunken hooligan who smashed a glass into a motorist's face has been jailed for 18 months.
He said: "Obviously, the repeated vandalism of the statue is of great concern and hopefully the mindless hooligans responsible will be caught."
He said that young hooligans should do community service as atonement for their crimes.
They want rid of our hooligans. The Sun
Your average football hooligan's brain is much smaller than that of a Neanderthal man. The Sun
So it's a bit of a shock to discover that la belle France has its own hooligan element. Times, Sunday Times
Football hooligans caused over ￡30,000 of damage in bars and restaurants near the stadium.
Football hooliganism is now reaching epidemic proportions.
Football hooligans have already been captured on television rampaging through the streets of Portugal.
The menswear company has moved away from its association with pastel golfing jumpers and football hooligans and has, instead, branched out into baggy tracksuits and drainpipe trousers.
I am a football supporter and I have to often explain that I'm not one of the hooligan sort because we'll all get tarred with the same brush when there's trouble.
This distinction provides a useful basis for a review and evaluation of specific theoretical approaches to football hooliganism.
This outfit is for those days when the wind is doing its best to be a hooligan or I am chucking very big flies or poppers, or sometimes a combination of both.
‘But there is a link - however tenuous - between the clubs and the hooligans, whether the clubs like it or not,’ he said.
Hooligans are not reformed by Mozart, so much as driven away by a noise that is as alien and hostile to their world as whale song to a camel herd.
It was a return to the bad old days of football hooliganism. The Sun
It's a nonsense verse used by everyone from boy scouts to football hooligans.
Groups of drunken hooligans smashed shop windows and threw stones.
The roughnecks and hooligans have gone and instead families on a Saturday night dine alfresco on the broad shrub-lined pavements as though they were in Paris.
There's no place for this mindless hooliganism in football. The Sun
The problem of hooliganism should be kept in proportion. Only a small number of young people act in this way.
Deep tracks and skid marks were left on greens after the hooligans damaged them.
Now such a public display of journalistic hooliganism is shameful.
Officials said they had identified and arrested 211 people responsible for the trouble and some had convictions for football hooliganism. The Sun
We will not be returning to the days when a hooligan minority shamed the name of football. The Sun
The committee agreed on the need to get rid of the hooligan element amongst football supporters.
TV shows a wide range of programmes about drunk Britain, hooligan Britain, out-of-control Britain, all of which rely largely on CCTV foot age of crimes, bust-ups, fully fledged fights and drunken collapses.
They were like football hooligans. Times, Sunday Times
Yum! is in it for the long haul, and they don't need a bunch of jibber-jabber from hooligans like you. The Consumerist: March 2009 Archives
Even back in my days as a horticultural hooligan, I only ever used peat to create a home-made compost for sowing seeds, never for potting plantlets or decorating borders.
A lot of blame for the whole situation must be laid at the door of the parents of these young hooligans.
We would soon see a tougher line being taken on young hooligans. The Sun
Fifteen Cardiff supporters appeared in court this week to answer charges of hooliganism.
The storyline involves a spy who is on the run with his long-lost brother, a former football hooligan. Times, Sunday Times
Seventy people, if you can call a screaming mob of hooligans human in any meaningful sense of the word, have been arrested for their role in the destruction of 18,000 books and 30,000 manuscripts.
For the most part, his subjects have progressed from social misfits and football hooligans to far-right activists. Times, Sunday Times
Hordes of wrinkly Europeans, mostly without SS helmets or any other headgear come to that, driving motor scooters like hooligans which would get them locked up in the old country.
Mr. Hampton and the cast cycled through dozens of English phrases for the French word "caractériel," someone who relishes in behaving badly, including "self-centered brute," "hooligan," "delinquent. Turning Paris Into Brooklyn
So we can all rejoice, apart from the raven who lost his dinner to a young hooligan. Times, Sunday Times
Hereford 0. Pitch invasion foiled ... police uncover soccer hooligans' plan.
The hotel was banned from serving late drinks 20 years ago after drunken hooligans made life a misery for residents.
Hooligans often take care to evade police escorts and to slip into rival territories unobserved.
When he recorded a short speech condemning hooliganism, it was broadcast simultaneously on three national TV networks like a prime ministerial address.
Amid the chaos of the postelection violence, hooligans took advantage of the situation, looting and burning houses. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing is more guaranteed to put off prospective teachers and to undermine the government's efforts to boost the profession than the annual Easter spectacle of bloody-minded, unrepresentative hooligans.
Not the people of Portland, but a private businessman from a very unethical family, and a small gang of violent hooligans who have publicly threatened all who have spoken the facts about this deal. Blazer fans will pay for soccer stadium (Jack Bog's Blog)
A hooligan was walking around, hand in pocket.
They'd only gone and told the plod that we were nothing but a bunch of juvenile hooligans intent only on wrecking the Queen's Peace and ripping apart the very fabric of their corner of Little England.
People are afraid to go to cinemas with family due to the ever-increasing presence of hooligans and goondas.
There is an insightful section on the Bolsheviks' fear of hooliganism and their tendency to link disorder and barbarism with popular culture.
They said that hooligans from the city took advantage of the chaos to wreak havoc. Times, Sunday Times
Football hooliganism is not about football, or booze, or misplaced passion.
I am a football supporter and I have to often explain that I'm not one of the hooligan sort because we'll all get tarred with the same brush when there's trouble.
Pitch invasion foiled ... police uncover soccer hooligans' plan.
Residents are being driven out of their homes by young yobs and hooligans who are making their lives a misery.
A gang of teenage hooligans has turned a quiet Carroll Gardens park in into a war zone.
Furious residents called for tougher police measures in a desperate bid to combat hooliganism.
He rushed into the midst of the hooligans and laid about him fearlessly.
The arrest was made as part of a police operation to curb football hooliganism.
A la suite des observations qu'il formula au sujet de cette pièce lors de son retour en Russie, le mot “hooligan” entra dans le vocabulaire de la langue russe, dans lequel il est encore utilisé – de même qu'en anglais – pour désigner un vandale ou un jeune voyou. Archive 2010-05-01
You can't brand all football supporters as hooligans.
The calender is a monthly collage featuring various assorted hooligans from the 2004 convention including yours truly, wearing the famous silver shirt. Friday randomness
The storyline involves a spy who is on the run with his long-lost brother, a former football hooligan. Times, Sunday Times
Their peace of mind has been shattered by young hooligans who use the derelict estate as their playground.
The same goes for known football hooligans before, during and after matches. Times, Sunday Times
Hooligans behave like thugs smashing up anyone and everything in their paths.
The hooligan element has re-emerged at every level of football.
The lager lout/hooligan reputation has been something of a British characteristic for a while, but now the culture of incivility seems to be affecting more areas of society.
Some shopkeepers closed early to prevent the wholesale destruction of their property by the hooligans.
The government has recently introduced a law to combat hooliganism.
By any reckoning, holidays are preferable to hooliganism, and jolly good luck to all who have the physical strength to enjoy them, and the money to pay for the tickets, which seem to run well into the thousands of dollars.
The Government intends to clamp down on soccer hooliganism.
One can only speculate on the effect of long-term unemployment on vandalism, football hooliganism and the crime rate in general.
All have been granted amnesty from hooliganism claims. The Sun
They want rid of our hooligans. The Sun
Football and hooliganism were inseparable. Times, Sunday Times
He claims that they often have convictions for football hooliganism or benefit fraud. Times, Sunday Times
A hooligan claiming to be a member of an anti-Scientology group was arrested Wednesday for attempting to "desecrate" the Church of Scientology with a wacky weapon - Religion News Blog
For the most part, his subjects have progressed from social misfits and football hooligans to far-right activists. Times, Sunday Times
Incredibly will drive hooligan, have a liking for, this bringing back was a 18th erection.
The gang went berserk at the undercover ace over a TV expose of Chelsea soccer hooligans that got one they knew jailed. The Sun
There are some clueless "antifascist" groups - attached to extreme Left political groups - which believe that rioting in the streets is the best way to fight the thugs and hooligans of the BNP. Harry's Place
I have also indulged myself with words such as 'djinn' and 'houri' and 'hooligan' which Taita never employed, but which, I feel certain, he would have used if they had formed part of his vocabulary. River God
Social workers, literary figures and leaders have condemned the hooliganism of the workers and demanded stern action.
Black players have to endure endless taunts except when one scores a goal for the hooligan's team.
This title celebrates another momentous decade in the career of soccer's greatest player, Roy Race, as he competes to win the GBP 30,000 Goal Rush Challenge, teaches how to play American Football, tackles the problem of hooliganism head on and struggles to control Melchester's latest signing - the fiery, arrogant but highly talented Paco Diaz. Archive 2009-04-01
Some shopkeepers closed early to prevent the wholesale destruction of their property by the hooligans.
Brother John warns him that the boys are dirty, degenerate and filthy little hooligans, not to be mistaken for intelligent human beings.
I am a football supporter and I have to often explain that I'm not one of the hooligan sort because we'll all get tarred with the same brush when there's trouble.
Extravagant in his praise of the fans and players and scornful of the Football Association and the hooligans, he wears his Three Lions with pride.
This modify of thermotherapy crapper be utilised to impact pain, hooligan spasms, and render contractures. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
In Holywell, Clwyd, a rotarian dressed as Santa suffered a gashed mouth after hooligans attacked his float with stones.
He wasn't the most ghastly hooligan we'd seen," one senior officer told Cockerell. Hugh Muir's diary
What was all that guff about football hooligans? Times, Sunday Times
` sandal '(cf. Latin calligula, ` soldier's boot'); German, from the Celtic gairm, a battle cry transmitted via the Latin Germanus; golf, from the Gaelic gowf ` blow with the hand '(an acceptable pronunciation for golf is "gof"); gull, from the Welsh gwylan or the Breton gwelan, ` sea bird'; havoc, from the Welsh hafog ` devastation '; hooligan, VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
Residents are being driven out of their homes by young yobs and hooligans who are making their lives a misery.
Doesn't this simply reflect that the soccer hooligans and other yahoos have turned it into a symbol of bigotry?
They said that hooligans from the city took advantage of the chaos to wreak havoc. Times, Sunday Times
Hooliganism in sports is not particular to Nigeria or Northern Nigeria ... The Decay in Our Sports...
Even back in my days as a horticultural hooligan, I only ever used peat to create a home-made compost for sowing seeds, never for potting plantlets or decorating borders.
As a three-day ruling party congress ended at Victoria Falls, hooligans from Zanu-PF chiselled brass plaques commemorating the dead of two world wars from the cathedral's sanctuary.
An enormous sound system is erected on a basketball court behind the town hall, and grandmothers, soccer hooligans, priests, and goatherds dance in the open air until early morning.
In the 1960s he set up a research team which looked into the problems of football hooliganism.
George, a brilliant if self absorbed painter, might possess the artistic vision to transform a group of hooligans into a band of angels with a single sweep of his brush.
A family of drunken louts have been sent to jail for train hooliganism and fighting police on the platform of a Railway Station.
For the most part, his subjects have progressed from social misfits and football hooligans to far-right activists. Times, Sunday Times
The hooligan said he had iced the woman.
And, believe it or not, they were actually quite successful for a few years in transforming racially tolerant white skinheads into violent and racist hooligans.
The trouble is each one of these hooligans knows they won't receive a harsh punishment because of their age. The Sun
It's a nonsense verse used by everyone from boy scouts to football hooligans, including, presumably the Swansea massive.
They want rid of our hooligans. The Sun
A family of drunken louts have been sent to jail for train hooliganism and fighting police on the platform of York Railway Station.
And in the far right hinterlands of football hooliganism, a series of appalling attacks is being readied.
The hooligans also vandalised changing rooms at a nearby school.
I think she and Phil were the nearest thing to soccer hooligans that canoeing can produce.
They said that hooligans from the city took advantage of the chaos to wreak havoc. Times, Sunday Times
This kind of mindless hooliganism serves no purpose whatever.
I cannot understand the mentality of football hooligans.
We will not be returning to the days when a hooligan minority shamed the name of football. The Sun
The former vice chancellor was honoured for his contribution in curbing the hooliganism on the campus.
Invading a speech and shutting down the speaker is not democracy, no matter how loudly the hooligans in question make the claim that it is. houting "This is what democracy looks like!" about 100 protesters stormed a hotel ballroom Tuesday where Mayor Michael Bloomberg was addressing an economic forum and accused him of ignoring the concerns of working-class New Yorkers. Rhymes With Right
But there's not much you can do about yahoos or rhetorical hooligans but keep your own head on straight and let them chatter.
They want rid of our hooligans. The Sun
Extra security has been set up to ensure that no louts or hooligans will spoil the match for spectators.
Football hooliganism has been one of our major exports. The Sun
We want to restore the good image of football. Tough action has cut down football hooliganism.
Young hooligans face being barred from Otley as part of a crackdown on crime in the town centre.
He was worshipped by cartoon creeps and hot-rod hooligans alike.
Who came up with the fatuous idea of getting drunken hooligans to form orderly queues at cash points across Britain?
Football violence has increased markedly in the city in recent years and there have been numerous outbreaks of trouble between rival hooligan gangs.
It starred Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton as a repo protegee and his jaded mentor and threw in everything from aliens to embryonic mosh pits to West Coast punk rock hooligans carrying out burglaries at low-rent convenience stores, not to mention the classic movie line: “John Wayne was a fag.” Which came first? “Repo Men” or “Repo! The Genetic Opera”? » Scene-Stealers
For a while, we thought it was only us who were beginning to grow tired of the same old blunts'n' gats 'n' cristal 'n' hoochie haze of hip-hop hooliganism.
Last month, police issued pictures of 26 hooligans they wanted to trace in connection with two pitch invasions during the match.
Doolittle set a devastating tone early, revealing himself to be a 97-year-old man with a vicious trifecta of antiquation, using the words “hooligans,” “flim-flam man,” and “hobnobs” in machine gun succession. Midterm Roundup
He struck the hooligan down with his fist.
Hooligans high on drugs also kicked down the doors of external store rooms, where used hypodermic syringes were found.
A hooligan persecuted her with telephone calls.
A 10-year-old girl fighting for her life after being thrown from an unsaddled horse had just rescued the animal from a gang of hooligans and was trying to take it to safety when the accident occurred.
He thinks we're thick northerners because he wanted to write for the theatre when he was sixteen and we were football hooligans. THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
Officers have been given the go-ahead to impose curfews and exclusion zones on young hooligans.
Instead of stealing penny sweet-meats from the local mercantilist or whiling away the hours listening to recordings of voices, these idle hooligans should be home sewing samplers by candle-light or slaving in the textile mills.
Police had set a trap for hooligans at the match.
The trouble is each one of these hooligans knows they won't receive a harsh punishment because of their age. The Sun
There were reports of widespread looting as football hooligans stampeded through the city centre.
Earlier, hooligans pelted riot police and uniformed officers with bottles after numerous incidents on the Wearmouth Bridge approach to the stadium.
Along the shoreline not far off, people dip-netted for hooligan, an oily spring fish.
He's a tearaway, a lout, a hooligan, and he's got a previous conviction for affray.
I've worked and lived in the city for many years - it's disgusting that I'm being driven out because of low-life thieves and hooligans.
The 1980s and 90s were a golden age: With football suffering from an image problem, mostly because of hooliganism and stadium disasters, snooker's popularity soared, peaking wiith the 1985 world championship final between Steve Davis, the sport's dominant player, and Dennis Taylor, who'd entered the tournament as an apparent no-hoper. Snooker Faces the Grim Reaper
Of course all the constables were familiar with the techniques of football hooligans, having spent many Saturdays with their backs to the game watching the spectators in the various stadiums up and down the country, and as their argument grew heated they reached the point of wishing to demonstrate, to their opposing colleagues, exactly what they meant by "tearing apart", "bollocking", "bottling" and the like. The Satanic Verses
If you're looking for an adrenaline rush and an untamed hooligan bike, the new Bandit, fun though it is, isn't the bike for you.
Had they done so it is likely that the violence and hooliganism would have been limited. Times, Sunday Times
Juvenile delinquency, sporadic hooliganism and political extremism have been features of banlieue life for years. Times, Sunday Times
It's time to get tough with football hooligans.
At age 15, he was travelling Italy with Lazio's infamous Irriducibili hooligans, skirmishing with police and opposing supporters.
The storyline involves a spy who is on the run with his long-lost brother, a former football hooligan. Times, Sunday Times
She said the police should have done more to stop the hooligans.
The FSF has argued with that ever since, that the response to a disaster caused by a negligent approach to fans' safety became an opportunity for "crowd control": to police potential hooliganism more keenly and gentrify the grounds. Fans' terrace campaign still standing but facing an uphill battle| David Conn
Pretty soon, the hooligans, graffiti artists, drug addicts, pushers - and rats - take over.
Officers will be dotted around the ground to spot known hooligans.
She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans.
If football hooligans are banned for violence, then why not players? The Sun
There was much talk about Scottish police requiring more powers to tackle hooliganism.
As a sputtering knife-wielding hooligan, she's unfocused rage and violence.
On Monday, the Ministry of Culture issued a notice banning online games that feature Mafioso kingpins, marauding street gangs or any sort of hooliganism predisposed to organization.

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