Fig Leaves and Football Hooligans (night of 14/01/2024)

The back streets of inner city London. It feels like the 1960s.
I have joined a group of football hooligans - I am noit sure how this has happened. My fellow football hooligans are well dressed in suits, and seem of the 'Krays gangster' type. We are preparing to meet up with a rival crew for some kind of violent altercation. As part of the preparation we have to carve the shape of a fig leave into our skin. We have no choice but to do this. With reluctance, I use my compass to scrape the shape of a fig leaf onto my ankle. Blood, but no pain.
One of the other hooligans - an older man who looks terrifying - explains that fig leaf ensures that his wife and chidlren would be protected if he is sent to prison.