hooligan firm

English

Noun

hooligan firm (plural hooligan firms)

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

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

Synonyms

• football firm