There was a couple of times when Rangers had very low crowds and we were able to take the shed back. This is a great book for any football supporter, as it looks at the life of a football supporter during one of the most violent periods in British football history. What I like about Green Street Hooligans 2: Stand Your Ground, is that pretty much everyone looks like a Mexicano Gang Member, straight outta Compton. Jay closed that chapter of his life by writing a controversial book Bloody Casuals - Diary Of A Football Hooligan. Given a widespread pattern of travel to away matches, the game also regularly provides a set of ready-made opponents with whom to fight.

A bit of a laugh innit" doesn't quite cut the mustard when a supporter who just went along to see his team play spends the night in casualty or on a mortuary slab. my ex used to work in a pub that was frequented by some of the leeds service crew - he told me some very scary stories about some of them, but, thinking about it, from what he said, they did seem to separate into the very violent (and often mentally unstable), and the fearsome fighters, amongst whom seemed to be quite a few martial arts enthusiasts. Yes, indeed and I was constantly told not by my dad not to go there (and I've seen others on here over the years say the same thing). You more or less never lived in those days but choose to criticise or you did live in those days but chose to spend time sorting out your stamp collection and watching Open University.I also wanted to keep it at least somewhat realistic, and I used interstellar distances, and the cost of transporting and supporting military formations so far from Earth as an equalizer of sorts. that's what makes Green Street Hooligans 2: Stand Your Ground the go-to account of what I personally believe the casual movement was like. In that sense, whilst mob behavour is an important part of the culture of football violence, the figure of 30,000 suggests that all football fans encouraged the violence. Soccer tends to be chosen by these groups as a context in which to fight because it, too, is about masculinity, territory, and excitement. All the films that have tried to recount it seem like balls and the hardman is laughable but I was just a bairn in the 80s and that is where we got our fashion sense from.

Lots of these, I’m sure, for many of my books in general, but this series was influenced mostly by history. Having said this, it would be wrong to view soccer hooliganism as always and everywhere a function solely or mainly of class. An account of Ward's life on the terraces in the 1970s and 1980s at Arsenal, Chelsea and England matches. Religious, subnational, city-based, regional, and generation-based fault lines may draw into football hooliganism more people from higher on the social scale than tends to be the case in England.The episode covered occasions when Aberdeen's casual would make the trip to Edinburgh, with things soon turning controversial when young fan Raymond Morrell was almost killed after being separated from his group. of people who do martial arts do not have what it takes mentaly to win a fight against a real fighter.