| Nowadays it is the footballers who behave like oafs off the field, while rugby players act like hooligans on it. |
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| Officers have been given the go-ahead to impose curfews and exclusion zones on young hooligans. |
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| At age 15, he was travelling Italy with Lazio's infamous Irriducibili hooligans, skirmishing with police and opposing supporters. |
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| With Muck Up Day looming, there are images splattered across the news of hooligans trashing the streets. |
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| A lot of blame for the whole situation must be laid at the door of the parents of these young hooligans. |
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| Deep tracks and skid marks were left on greens after the hooligans damaged them. |
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| Teenage hooligans have been waging a campaign against contractors on a Waterside building site. |
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| Residents are being driven out of their homes by young yobs and hooligans who are making their lives a misery. |
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| Their names had been etched into the glass but the pane was shattered by hooligans who climbed onto scaffolding and kicked in the windows. |
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| It's a nonsense verse used by everyone from boy scouts to football hooligans, including, presumably the Swansea massive. |
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| In Portugal handcuffed and hung over hooligans whinge about heavy-handed police tactics and plead their innocence. |
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| Then they withdrew and left us to the mercy of tens of hooligans who locked us inside. |
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| But there's not much you can do about yahoos or rhetorical hooligans but keep your own head on straight and let them chatter. |
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| Doesn't this simply reflect that the soccer hooligans and other yahoos have turned it into a symbol of bigotry? |
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| Football hooligans have already been captured on television rampaging through the streets of Portugal. |
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| The hooligans always came off best because they could damage you more than you could damage them. |
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| A gang of teenage hooligans has turned a quiet Carroll Gardens park in into a war zone. |
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| Extra security has been set up to ensure that no louts or hooligans will spoil the match for spectators. |
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| The hotel was banned from serving late drinks 20 years ago after drunken hooligans made life a misery for residents. |
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| Young hooligans face being barred from Otley as part of a crackdown on crime in the town centre. |
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| Brother John warns him that the boys are dirty, degenerate and filthy little hooligans, not to be mistaken for intelligent human beings. |
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| The government is to get tough on hooligans who cause mayhem with fireworks. |
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| The Japanese authorities had feared an invasion of English hooligans, but there has been little trouble so far. |
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| My dad stopped going in the '80s because scary away fans brought hooligans. |
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| Their peace of mind has been shattered by young hooligans who use the derelict estate as their playground. |
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| Who came up with the fatuous idea of getting drunken hooligans to form orderly queues at cash points across Britain? |
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| Last month, police issued pictures of 26 hooligans they wanted to trace in connection with two pitch invasions during the match. |
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| People are afraid to go to cinemas with family due to the ever-increasing presence of hooligans and goondas. |
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| A local football derby exploded into violence when hooligans from Hull took over the bar of a Lincoln hotel and began a pitched battle with police. |
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| He was worshipped by cartoon creeps and hot-rod hooligans alike. |
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| 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. |
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| It's like all English people being branded yobs and hooligans because some football fans go on the rampage abroad. |
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| And violence too: there are the young hooligans who get a kick out of annoying everyone who gets on. |
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| It is vital that we fight with determination against the hooligans of the sea who use the oceans as a rubbish dump! |
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| It is a question, at the end of the day, of saving the financial hooligans who make light of the efforts of market regulators. |
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| Keeping undesirables and hooligans out of the toilets also helps to improve the standard of both cleanliness and security for customers. |
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| Without the introduction of such penalties, the hooligans of the sea will go unpunished and will continue to pollute the sea without scruple. |
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| The German police anti-hooligan task force has said that it is pretty confident there will be hooligans there. |
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| Take for example the Belgian hooligans, rivals of each other on the home scene, whose national side did not qualify for the World Cup. |
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| 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. |
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| Teachers managing 20-odd high-energy hooligans don't have the time to change poopy pants. |
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| The main risk, then, is that hooligans and neo-Nazis fight among themselves. |
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| Despite the ideas put about by the press, hooligans do appreciate the sporting aspect of football. |
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| Drunken hooligans often put their aggression down to their drinking, but an alcoholic intoxication is no excuse for criminal behaviour. |
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| What did this minister and the government do to punish and deter 16 and 17-year old hooligans with no regard for others? |
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| Furthermore, the exchange of data concerning potential terrorist perpetrators and hooligans is regulated. |
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| These hooligans are holding up our government, threatening our civil rights. |
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| An important contribution to the prevention of hooliganism is by excluding known hooligans from attending matches. |
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| He acknowledged that members of minorities were victims of violence by hooligans, but that had nothing to do with their ethnic origins. |
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| The media and the government referred to this group as militant land owners, rascals, criminals, Rambos, thugs, hooligans, trouble makers and rebels. |
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| 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. |
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| Contrary to popular belief, Burberry has not discontinued its famous plaid baseball cap because of its association with football hooligans and lager louts. |
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| Underage hooligans and crummy fast-food restaurants abound, and the exit strategy once inside is impossible to navigate. |
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| 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. |
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| Officers will be dotted around the ground to spot known hooligans. |
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| Seven boxes across the city exploded after hooligans, believed to be teenagers, threw fireworks into them in the run-up to Bonfire Night last year. |
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| Earlier, hooligans pelted riot police and uniformed officers with bottles after numerous incidents on the Wearmouth Bridge approach to the stadium. |
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| Before the Russian-backed rebellion in eastern Ukraine most were regarded as little more than hooligans. |
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| The hooligans also vandalised changing rooms at a nearby school. |
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| She said the police should have done more to stop the hooligans. |
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| 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. |
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| The less discerning football hooligans held fast to the idea too. |
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| It was a great shame in fact that the Belgian police overreacted in such a way by clearing bars of decent ordinary football-loving supporters, taking them with the dross that are the football hooligans. |
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| Soon, a full-fledged street battle pitted violent hooligans against 1,300 cops, about 50 of whom ended up injured. The images, reminiscent of street fighting during the Weimar republic of the 1920s, shocked Germans. |
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| These militant hooligans often call themselves anti-fascists. |
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| We know that they have gone out now and said that there is no way we can stop these young gangbangers and hooligans, when the Youth Criminal Justice Act has all these powers. |
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| All too often hooligans overrun the terraces of sports grounds, bringing back the barbarism that peaceful confrontation in sport had once removed. |
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| A genuine activist for the preservation of the planet, Greenpeace openly denounces the hooligans of the seas and confronts them with their wrongdoings. |
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| Under normal circumstances, the PRC usually chooses not to admit a serious problem of political opposition, dismissing dissidents as criminals or hooligans. |
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| And these hooligans ripped off our present. |
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| In the 1960s, hooligans would smash up dance halls. |
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| Then, a few years ago, Great Britain, which gave the world meat served with jam, hooligans and Adam Smith, started to feed cows on cadavers and to manufacture chocolate without cocoa. |
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| Two of the powerful cannons are on loan to the RUC from the Belgian police who used them to quell the English hooligans. |
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| Measures are needed against violence and racism in sport, in order to guarantee that sportsmen and women and sports fans are protected against rampaging hordes of hooligans and racists. |
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| They had, they said, voted for the law at that time only on the presupposition that it really only applied to football hooligans, and not to people who wanted to express their political views. |
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| In Holland, several hundred hooligans clashed with anti-riot police in the town of Tilburg and 125 were arrested. |
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| The existence of a renowned critic who defended their street work counteracted the opinions of the more conservative critics who defined the show, Accions, as a performance by hooligans. |
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| He joined the Hooray Henry hooligans of the heavy-drinking Bullingdon Club. |
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| This World Cup will be an opportunity for Polish hooligans to measure themselves against the leading hooligan nations like Germany, Holland and England. |
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| In the previous episode, a friendly match between the young team from the soccer clinic versus Tambarare F. C. had to be abandoned when some hooligans stormed onto the pitch after Chedede had scored for the youngsters. |
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| His first major field study was an analysis of the behaviour of football hooligans, at a time when there was serious concern about the levels of violence on the terraces and in the streets. |
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| Of course I am not talking about a small number of violent demonstrators whom we saw in action in Gothenburg, because they are just hooligans for whom only violence counts. |
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| Although its torchlit parades, swastika-like logo and bands of black-clad hooligans alienate many Greeks, the party consistently came third in opinion polls for many months. |
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| However, I believe that if any hooligans do manage to travel to Germany, they will eventually content themselves with blending in with the mass of fans and be happy just to be present at the tournament. |
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| At 1.30am around 300 police officers, entered the club to search it based on information that 150-250 football hooligans were going to gather there. |
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| Last week the new Nationalist party was formed, combining football hooligans, ultranationalists and skinheads, while another faction announced the creation of vigilante groups. |
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| They had known one another for yonks — since they were teen-age hooligans. |
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| The main risk is to see a competition running parallel to the World Cup itself, involving hooligans in violent incidents, pages and pages of press coverage, and the arrest of violent supporters. |
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| Police in riot gear fought running battles with hooligans in the centre of Birmingham last night after England's lastminute defeat to the French in the European Championships. |
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| I frequently notice that the hooligans are a hard act to follow. |
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| The genre was extremely popular with the city's football hooligans. |
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| This final was to end in disaster as, before the match kicked off, rioting football hooligans caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing 39 Juventus supporters. |
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| And in ratings-busting EastEnders mood, Walford's warring, whingeing woofters Tony and Simon are being terrorised and out-manouevred by a quartet of teenage hooligans. |
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| Some of these wannabe hooligans ran with the Celtic Soccer Crew for a number of years without ever being arrested or suffering as much as a broken nail. |
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