Sentence examples for local hooligan from inspiring English sources

The presence of England will attract local hooligan groups.

Ferdia, the novel's teenage narrator, discovers that his mother, Annie, has hooked up with the 22-year-old cousin of a local hooligan; Ferdia's dad has already run off with an airheaded pop singer who is almost as young.

Chuck Neal, a retired ecologist with the Department of the Interior, which oversees the park service, said he worried that reduced staffing at the parks could "open opportunities for local, hooligan-types to create some mischief, such as poaching and harassing wildlife".

Mr Wray thinks it would be a good idea for Mr Tyson to visit his patch to persuade local hooligans that it would be manly to give up knives and iron bars and use their fists to settle their differences.

The Newsnight London mayoral debate, as it was optimistically billed, mostly comprised front-runners Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson interrupting each other while Jenny Jones struggled to get a sentence in edgeways and ex-cop Brian Paddick made set-piece, walk-on interventions in the manner of a stage village constable threatening the local hooligans with a clip round the ear.

You can hear real affection when he sings, sighingly, about the local hooligans, in a tender two-minute ballad called "Riot Van": "These lads just wind the coppers oop/ They ask why they don't catch proper crooks/ They get their address and their names took/ But they couldn't care less".

David's family was harassed by neighbors and local hooligans.

As the firm's moniker "inter city" suggests violent activities were not confined to local derbies – the hooligans were content to cause trouble at any game, though nearby teams often bore the brunt.

"They had been searching for it for some time and finally they had this confict with local inhabitants - this hooligan act".

I thought the rioters were just football hooligans and local thugs.

Shortly after this news broke, a local crowd, backed by hooligans from Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city, stormed three of the five houses owned by Rashkov and set them ablaze with Molotov cocktails.