hooligan

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Mr O'Grady said Connolly "wasn't some lager-fuelled hooligan on the streets" and pointed to her being a mother of a 12-year-old daughter, who had also lost a son when he was just 19 months old.

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She's also deeply disturbed by what she calls Simion's "hooligan" behaviour.

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She believes the beluga was being trained to guard the base and fled because it was a "hooligan".

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Back in 1999, one hereditary Tory peer, the Earl of Onslow, said he would behave like a “football hooligan” in opposing New Labour’s abolition plan.

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She said "hooligans and thugs" involved in disorder across the country should "hang their heads in shame" for attempting to connect their actions to the events of 29 July.

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