"hooligan firm" meaning in English

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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, James Bannon, Running with the Firm, Random House, →ISBN, page 233:",
          "text": "And are you part of a hooligan firm or do you try and stay out of trouble?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Cyprian Piskurek, Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures: Slum Sport, Slum People?, Springer, →ISBN, page 177:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2021, Katherine Dashper, Sport, Gender and Mega-Events, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 83:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "group that participates in football hooliganism or other sports-related hooliganism"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "football firm"
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  "word": "hooligan firm"
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2013, James Bannon, Running with the Firm, Random House, →ISBN, page 233:",
          "text": "And are you part of a hooligan firm or do you try and stay out of trouble?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Cyprian Piskurek, Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures: Slum Sport, Slum People?, Springer, →ISBN, page 177:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2021, Katherine Dashper, Sport, Gender and Mega-Events, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 83:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "group that participates in football hooliganism or other sports-related hooliganism"
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