Smell of hooligans under mouldy old seats (6,8)
I believe the answer is:
rotten boroughs
'seats' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'smell of hooligans under mouldy old' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'smell' could be 'bo' (abbreviation for Body Odour) and 'bo' is located in the answer.
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is found within the answer.
'old' could be 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English) and 'o' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?