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Defuse hooliganism with grace, song, and love.—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026 Kuper suggests that, where English hooliganism represents a grotesque form of nostalgia, postwar Japanese civility is a pose predicated on collective amnesia about wartime atrocities.—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 The police also said that administrative proceedings had been initiated for public drunkenness and minor hooliganism.—Reuters, NBC news, 23 Jan. 2026 The film focused on an American who got involved in the brutal world of British football hooliganism.—Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hooliganism