was unrepentant vs. his former victims ("arguing" that most of them were militant leftists just as much out for a fight as he was)

I once knew a member of the West Ham hooligan group, the Inter City Firm, who used to use exactly the same justification for the mayhem he created. This was the most obvious bollocks that it was actually insulting to hear him say it and I took great pleasure in pointing that out. He'd just grin at me in a "why are you talking cos I'm not listening" manner

keep to the Fen Causeway