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Mind your language

Impenitent

22 April 2023

9:00 AM

22 April 2023

9:00 AM

‘Hang on,’ said my husband. ‘That’s not right. I’ve read that book.’

He had too, the book being The Hooligan Nights. It purported to be an account of a young hooligan from Lambeth called Alf, and was published in 1899, a year after the feared and anathematised youths came to prominence in the press.

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