> Some of the Madchester bands (Stone Roses, Happy Mondays) and their fans
>
> - sort of football fans with designer clothes - is sometimes refered to
> as casuals by some in the UK.
>
> Richard
> www.uppers.net
In England, casuals were an early to mid 1980s thing. Basically the
term used to describe football hooligans that liked designer gear,
originally often sports wear but it pretty soon moved on from that.
Some football hooligans in England tend to be quite organised and some
have their own name for their little group - for example in Derby they
were (are) called the DLF or Derby Lunatic Fringe, in Leicester the Baby
Squad etc.
I wouldn't have said they have anything to do with Madchester. The
exact fashions they were into would depend on where they were from (what
team they followed) and the year you are talking about. The term isn't
used so much now but the organised football hooligans - or at least an
element of them - still follow a similar line in clothes.
Whether that has anything to do with what these people in the boiler
(whatever that is) were talking about I don't know.
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