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Hoolifan

Author : Martin Knight
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780573901
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Hoolifan written by Martin Knight and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoolifan is the story of one man, Martin King, and his experiences spanning three decades with the country's foremost soccer gang. Chelsea have always been at the cutting edge of football violence, and King himself was at the heart of the evolving Chelsea mob for some 30 years. From his first visit to a football ground in the early 1960s, he charts his development from a rattle-waving child through to a fully fledged member of the notorious Chelsea Shed in the 1970s and finally to his exploits as a key player in the most feared football gang of the 1980s and 1990s - the so-called Chelsea Headhunters. King describes the leading characters of the various eras, not just from Chelsea but from across the country. He also records every clash, ambush and act of revenge in vivid detail, as well as the camaraderie and style of this most infamous soccer gang. This is not just another book on the well-trodden subject of football hooliganism, as, unlike so many authors, Martin King makes no attempt to distance himself from the violence and leaves readers to draw their own conclusions. At times provocative, often humorous and always honest, Hoolifan places the phenomenon of football hooliganism in its true social context.

Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch

Author : John M. Sloop
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817361022
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch written by John M. Sloop and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American sports agnostics might raise an eyebrow at the idea that soccer represents a staging ground for progressive cultural, social, and political possibility within the United States. It is just another game, after all, in a society where mass-audience spectator sport largely avoids any political stance in other than a generic, corporate-friendly patriotism. But John Sloop picks up on the work of Laurent Dubois and others to see in American soccer-a sport that has achieved immense participation and popularity even as it struggles to establish major league status-a game that permits surprisingly diverse modes of thinking about national identity because of its marginality. As a rhetorician who engages with both critical theory and culture, John Sloop seeks to read soccer as the game intersects with gender, race, sexuality, class, and the logic of neoliberal values. The result of this engagement is a sense of both enormous possibility, and real constraint. If American soccer offers more possibility because of its marginality, looking at how these cultural, social, and political possibilities are closed off or constrained can provide valuable insights into American culture and values. In Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch, Sloop analyzes a host of soccer-adjacent case studies: the equal pay dispute between the US women's national team and the US Soccer Federation, the significance of hooligan literature, the introduction of English soccer to American TV audiences, the strange invisibility of the Mexican soccer league despite its consistent high TV ratings, and the reading of US national teams as "underdogs" despite the nation's quasi-imperial dominance of the Western hemisphere. While there is a growing bookshelf of titles on soccer and a growing number on American soccer, Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch is the first and only book-length analysis of soccer through a rhetorical lens. This book is a model for critical cultural work with sports, with appeal to not only sports studies, but cultural studies, communication, and even gender studies classrooms. It is, independent of its bona fides, an engaging and enjoyable read for the soccer fan and the soccer-curious"--

The Naughty Nineties

Author : Martin King
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 178057388X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Naughty Nineties written by Martin King and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football has reinvented itself. As television money has poured into the game, the traditional working-class fans have poured out - not by choice, but by economic necessity. According to those in charge of the game the football hooligan has at last been eliminated from the landscape. But how true is this much-vaunted claim? Martin King, author of Hoolifan, brings his story up to date in The Naughty Nineties. Ironically, he finds that football hooligans now really are in the minority but they are far more dangerous and committed than ever before.

Guvnors

Author : Mickey Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953084715
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Guvnors written by Mickey Francis and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-hand account of how Michael Francis and his brothers ran the Guvnors, a Manchester City based hooligan gang that wreaked havoc on the streets and terraces of Britain. Hard hitting and atmospheric, the story recounts Francis' childhood in the notorious Moss Side area of Manchester, his initiation into soccer thuggery, his rise through the ranks of the hooligan hierarchy, and the bitter clashes with other football gangs.

Scally

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

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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.

Football and Accelerated Culture

Author : Steve Redhead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317411544
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Football and Accelerated Culture written by Steve Redhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class football cultures and the rapid media globalisation of ‘the people’s game’. Drawing on international empirical research and a unique and ground-breaking study of football hooligan memoirs, the book delves into a wide array of disciplines, examining fascinating topics such as the relationship between music and football; hooligans and ultras; the rise of social media and anti-modern football movements; and ultra-realist criminology. Football and Accelerated Culture offers a new way of thinking about sporting cultures that expands the boundaries of physical cultural studies. As such, it is important reading for anybody with an interest in the culture of sport and leisure, social theory, communication studies, criminology or socio-legal studies.

Blades Business Crew

Author : Steve Cowens
Publisher : Milo Books
ISBN 13 : 9780953084784
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Blades Business Crew written by Steve Cowens and published by Milo Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publisher of the best-selling 'Guvnors' (over 40,000 sold to date) comes this new graphic exposure of the activities of one of Britain's most dangerous and notorious football hooligan gangs - by the man who led it. For over 20 years, Steve cowens kept a diary of the violent exploits of one of the country's most active gang: the Blades Business Crew. As leader of the 'BBC' - followers of Sheffield United - he visited 91 of the 92 Football League grounds and fought at most of them. Illustrated with 8 pages of B & W photos. Introduction by Paul Heaton of the Beautiful South

Repetitive Beat Generation

Author : Steve Redhead
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Repetitive Beat Generation written by Steve Redhead and published by Skyhorse Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with some of the most popular and influential writers to emerge in the 1990's, revealing the deep influence that music has had on many of these writers.

Terrace Legends - The Most Terrifying And Frightening Book Ever Written About Soccer Violence

Author : Cass Pennant
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782192352
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Terrace Legends - The Most Terrifying And Frightening Book Ever Written About Soccer Violence written by Cass Pennant and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the men who, for decades, have ruled the football terraces. They are the faces behind the biggest firms in football history; behind the rucks, the rules and the respect. They have caused chaos for the public and the press and struck fear into rival fans that have crossed their path. In this book, the men behind the mobs have joined forces to reveal their experiences as key figures in the most notorious terrace fights. From the bovver boys of the sixties and seventies to the football casuals of the eighties, the names central to the biggest firms - the names that were to become the stuff that terrace legends were made of - have all been tracked down and interviewed. They tell their stories in this book.

On The Cobbles

Author : Jimmy Stockin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780573898
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book On The Cobbles written by Jimmy Stockin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is familiar with the gypsy race but few outside their close-knit and ancient community really know what being a gypsy is about -how they live and how they think. This is the story of a gypsy man, Jimmy Stockin, born into a world where fighting is first nature. Whilst football maybe the chosen sport for most British males, bare-knuckle fighting is a passion among gypsies both as participants and spectators. Jimmy was born into fighting family. His father and grand-father before him 'trod the cobbles' and young Jimmy was being put up against other boys on gypsy camps from the age of five. He took on bare knuckle challenges from wherever they came. Before long Jimmy was widely recognised as the champion of the bare-knuckle fighters. On the Cobbles is a rare insight into a community under threat - a community that treasures tradition - and a man who had little choice in becoming a fighter but was nevertheless determined to be the best. Shocking and sad, humourous and brutal, this story opens the door to a different world. The world of a gypsy warrior.

No Retreat

Author : Dave Hann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903854228
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book No Retreat written by Dave Hann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost twenty years a secret war was fought on the streets of Britain's town and cities. On one side were the thugs and skinheads of the National Front and the British National Party. On the other was the Squad, made up of a hardcore elite of tough, working class socialists who marked a radical departure for the anti-racist movement. Its members took the fight to their opponents not with placards and protests but with knuckledusters, bottles and boots. Dave Hann and Steve Tilzey, once key members of the Squad, tell their extraordinary story for the first time.

The Feminization of Sports Fandom

Author : Stacey Pope
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317425391
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Feminization of Sports Fandom written by Stacey Pope and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women fans have entered the traditionally male domain of the sports stadium in growing numbers in recent years. Watching professional sport is important for women for so many reasons, but their expectations and experiences have been largely ignored by academics. This book tackles these shortcomings in the literature and sheds new light on the many ways in which women become sports fans. This groundbreaking study is the first to focus on the phenomenon of the feminization of sports fandom. Including original research on football and rugby union in the UK, it looks at the increasing opportunities for women to become sports fans in contemporary society and critically examines the way this form of leisure is valued by women. Drawing upon feminist thinking and intersectionality, it shows how women from different social classes and age groups consume the spectacle of sport. This book is fascinating reading for any student or scholar interested in sport and leisure studies, sociology and gender or women’s studies.

Hoolifan

Author : Martin Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783980906401
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Hoolifan written by Martin Knight and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legends of the Firm

Author : Cass Pennant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786062536
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Firm written by Cass Pennant and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the men who, for decades, have ruled the football terraces. They are the faces behind some of the biggest firms in football history. From the bovver boys of the sixties and seventies, to the football cauals of the eighties and beyond. In this book, the members of the mobs have joined forces to reveal their experiences as key figures in the most notorious terrace fights. Rarely seen before, they have all ben tracked down and interviewed and provide a fascinating glimpse to the world of football firms across the country and throughout the football league.

Villains

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

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Download or read book Villains written by Danny Brown and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2008-02-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aston Villa is one of the biggest and best-supported football clubs in Britain, the giant from England's second city with a long and distinguished history, culminating in an unforgettable European Cup victory in 1982. The story of their terrace army, however, has never been told - until now. Like all major clubs, Villa have had their hooligans and hardmen, and have been involved in some of the fiercest battles of the past four decades. VILLAINS traces their gangs from the 1960's up to the present day. Through first-person testimony, it reveals for the first time the antics of the Steamers, who achieved nationwide infamy, led by a band of colourful and fearless characters such as Pete the Greek, who famously once headbutted a police horse and took on the Millwall leader in a one-on-one brawl. Eventually they were superseded by the C Crew, a multi-racial gang who brought together youths from different areas of Birmingham during the 2-Tone era. This was the heyday of hooliganism, and the Villa Park faithful clashed with the toughest and most violent mobs around, often led into battle by co-authors Paul Brittle and "Black" Danny Brown, who was jailed in 1981 for one of the most infamous football-related attacks. They went on riotous trips to Europe, fought at service stations and in nightclubs, and conducted bitter rivalries against foes from across the Midlands and beyond. The story is brought up to date with tales of the Villa Youth and accounts of the notorious Battle of McDonalds Island against their Birmingham City rivals the Zulus.

Who Wants It?

Author : Chris Henderson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574991
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Who Wants It? written by Chris Henderson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Henderson formed the Chelsea Headhunters – who later earned a reputation as the most dangerous fans in Britain - as well as the band Combat 84 who, with their punk attitude and uncut, Orwellian lyrics, represented the antithesis of middle-class England. After the jailing of Stephen 'Hickey' Hickmott, Henderson organised a gang of Chelsea fans who travelled to matches by luxury coach with the aim of causing havoc and destruction. They were finally arrested and their subsequent trial was meant to be the crowning glory of Thatcher's campaign to vanquish hooliganism. Instead, the dramatic collapse of the case sounded the death knell for all the undercover police operations and mass indiscriminate arrests that had been ordered by the authorities to squash the activities of Henderson and others. The 'Ministry' continued to pursue Henderson and prior to the 2002 World Cup, he and Hickmott were named as the two leaders planning hooligan and criminal acts for the tournament in South Korea and Japan, which culminated in Henderson being arrested and refused entry to Japan for the England v. Argentina match. Told in Henderson's exact words, this is the dramatic story of an era of music and football, when how you looked counted as much as how you performed. With its depiction of events surrounding South Korea/Japan 2002, Who Wants It? also shows how the scourge of hooliganism continues to blight the beautiful game today.

Preacher of Death

Author : Martin King
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preacher of Death written by Martin King and published by Signet. This book was released on 1993 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter who interviewed cult leader Vernon Howell/David Koresh in 1992, and a former cult member who was second-in-command of the Branch Davidians for many years, describe and explain what led up to the horrifying end of the cult in the Waco fire of April 1993. It is the story of a deluded maniac who exerted a hypnotic influence over his followers and committed many crimes without any legal constraints being brought to bear on him or his sect.