ABSTRACT
Attention has recently been prominently directed by magisterial comments, by letters in the newspapers, and by articles in the magazines, to that growth of street ruffianism which has come to be known as “Hooliganism”; and, astonishing as it may seem at first sight, the usual Snagsby prescription – a Mansion House fund – has been suggested to deal with the lounger and loafer of the street by subsidising clubs for working boys, and kindred institutions. The utility of clubs of the Old Northey Street type, which are primarily schools, but add on a recreational side, is also undoubted; but these appeal to quite a different class of boy to those who should be attracted to the purely social club. To sum up in conclusion: Hooligans are undoubtedly to some extent an artificial creation of the State.
