Hooligan

Author : Bill Buford
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804150516
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Among the Thugs written by Bill Buford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.

Author : Ramón Spaaij
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9056294458
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Understanding Football Hooliganism written by Ramón Spaaij and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football hooliganism periodically generates widespread political and public anxiety. In spite of the efforts made and resources invested over the past decades, football hooliganism is still perceived by politicians, policymakers and media as a disturbing social problem. This highly readable book provides the first systematic and empirically grounded comparison of football hooliganism in different national and local contexts. Focused around the six Western European football clubs on which the author did his research, the book shows how different clubs experience and understand football hooliganism in different ways. The development and effects of anti-hooligan policies are also assessed. The emphasis throughout is on the importance of context, social interaction and collective identity for understanding football hooliganism. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in football culture, hooliganism and collective violence.

Author : Philipp Winkler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162872868X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hooligan written by Philipp Winkler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all got two families: the one we're born with, and the one we choose ourselves. Heiko hasn't finished high school. His father is an alcoholic. His mother left. His housemate organizes illegal dogfights. He works in his uncle's gym, one frequented by bikers and skinheads. He definitely isn't one of society's winners, but he has his chosen family, the pack of soccer hooligans he's grown up with. His uncle is the leader, and gradually Heiko has risen in the ranks, until he's recognized in the stands of his home team and beyond the stadium walls, where, after the game, he and his gang represent their city in brutal organized brawls with hooligans from other localities. Philipp Winkler's stunning, widely acclaimed novel won the prize for best debut and was a finalist for the most prestigious German book award. It offers an intimate, devastating portrait of working-class, post-industrial urban life on the fringes and a universal story about masculinity in the twenty-first century, with a protagonist whose fear of being left behind has driven him to extremes. Narrated with lyrical authenticity by Heiko himself, it captures the desperation and violence that permeate his world, along with the yearning for brotherhood.

Author : James Bannon
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448175313
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Running with the Firm written by James Bannon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k. I am a hooligan...there I've said it...I'm a hooligan. And, do you know why? Because that's my f**king job.' In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down the ‘generals’ of a football hooligan gang, achieved cult status for its sheer brutality and unsettling insight into the dark and often bloody side of the so-called beautiful game. The film was so shocking it was hard to believe the mindless events that took place could ever happen in the real world. Well, believe it now... Almost twenty years on, the man behind the film has explosively revealed that the script was largely a true story. That man, James Bannon, was the ambitious undercover cop. The football club was Millwall F.C. and the gang that he infiltrated was The Bushwackers, among the most brutal and fearless in English football. In Running with the Firm, Bannon shares his intense and dangerous journey into the underworld of football hooliganism where sickening levels of violence prevail over anything else. He introduces you to the hardest thugs from football’s most notorious gangs, tells all about the secret and almost comical police operations that were meant to bring them down, and, how once you’re on the inside, getting out from the mob proves to be the biggest mission of all. A disturbing but compelling read, this is the book that proves fact really is stranger than fiction.

Author : PATRICK. HOLOHAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780717186280
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hooligan written by PATRICK. HOLOHAN and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he was a teenager, the octagon was the only place where MMA fighter Paddy Holohan's life settled into something approaching focus. Far removed from the chaos of the outside world - all those opportunities spurned and relationships undone, the pain and alienation - every bout reduced that maze of hardship to one simple proposition: survive. In mixed martial arts, bouts are often decided by the finest margins. In Paddy's case, the knife edge was made all the keener by Factor XIII deficiency, a vanishingly rare form of haemophilia he had spent years hiding from the sport's authorities. For the duration of his career, he was never more than one misplaced strike away from death. Why enter the octagon knowing you might never leave? For Holohan, it would take a journey to the summit of his sport, and a high-profile fall from grace, to unravel the answer to that question and, with it, finally find some measure of redemption. This is his story.

Author : Andy Nicholls
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Scally written by Andy Nicholls and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Nicholls is known to every football intelligence officer in Britain. For twenty-five years, he was one of the most active hooligans in the country, a leading figure among the violent followers of Everton FC Classified as a Category C thug, the worst kind, he amassed more than twenty arrests and has been deported from Belgium, Iceland and Sweden. His terrace fanzine was closed down by the authorities and he was banned from every ground in the UK. Revealing the truth behind the vicious knife attacks of the so-called County Road Cutters and the bitter Merseyside and Manchester rivalries that left scores injured, SCALLY caused a storm of controversy on first publication. It is widely acknowledged as the most revealing, most shocking book ever written about soccer gang culture.

Author : Douglas Thayer
Publisher : Zarahemla Books
ISBN 13 : 0978797159
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hooligan written by Douglas Thayer and published by Zarahemla Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the finest writers the LDS Church has yet produced has now turned his talent to his own growing-up years. Entertaining, wise—and it's even true." —Orson Scott Card In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American West—fishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to skinny-dip in river or pond. Douglas Thayer was such a boy, and in this poignant, often humorous memoir, he depicts his Utah Valley boyhood during the Great Depression and World War II. Known in some circles as a Mormon Hemingway, Thayer has created a richly detailed work that shares cultural DNA with Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. His narrative at once prosaic and poetic, Thayer captures nostalgia for a simpler time, along with boyhood's universal yearnings, pleasures, and mysteries.

Author : David Jones
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Soul Crew written by David Jones and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cardiff Soul Crew are recognised by police intelligence officers as the most violent football hooligan gang currently active in Britain. Their 400-plus members have been involved in mass disorder at matches for more than twenty-five years. Yet they have largely escaped the notoriety of their English counterparts - until now. Two men closely involved with the gang tell its history from its origins through to the present day: their leaders, their fashions, how they organise and who they fight. Soul Crew relates how an infamous clash with Manchester United's Red Army in the mid-Seventies was the impetus for the formation of the mob. A core group of hardcases from the tough Docks area of Cardiff was joined by alienated, unemployed youths from the valleys and former pit villages of South Wales. They took their name from their love of soul music and adopted the casual fashion of designer-label clothes. In time they would fight fierce battles with rivals like the Frontline Crew, the Bushwhackers, the Gooners and the Central Element. Soul Crew also reveals for the first time the network of alliances and communications between the leading hooligans around the country: the so-called "Category C" thugs who organise much of the violence. And it tells of their cat-and-mouse relationship with the police spotters who now follow them everywhere Soul Crew is the best evocation yet of life running with a soccer mob.

Author : Geoffrey Pearson
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 0333234006
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hooligan written by Geoffrey Pearson and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 1983-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses views on crime committed by young offenders, and law and order in Great Britain, from 1603 to 1981.

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439132127
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Roxie and the Hooligans written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do not panic. Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If Roxie's ever lost in the desert, or buried in an avalanche, or caught in a dust storm, she knows just what to do. But Lord Thistlebottom has no advice to help Roxie deal with Helvetia's Hooligans, the meanest band of bullies in school. Then Roxie finds herself stranded on a deserted island with not only the Hooligans but also a pair of crooks on the lam, and her survival skills may just save the day -- and turn the Hooligans into surprising allies.