Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan

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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.

Found this book whilst having a tidy out at home and have started to read it again - must be 7 or 8 years since I first read it. That said, even in the bad old days, the true hooligan element, especially the various 'crews', were very much in the minority, with most fans being ordinary folk just interested in supporting their team. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.As we all know at that time the ' Gorgie Aggro ' were still there or thereabouts but it wasn't until after Hibs in April 85 at Tynecastle that the violence on the terraces and on the streets took a back seat from then on in leaving the casuals to try an emulate the Aberdeen and Motherwell lads. The actor and Football Factory star paid a visit to Scotland to visit several groups of football casuals in the mid-2000s, and took a trip to meet fans in the Granite City for the series on the TV channel Bravo.

For us he said "don't really have a lot of casuals - but they don't need to because their ordinary fans, of all ages, are crazy. For example, from the late 1920s to the mid-1960s, the occurrence of soccer hooliganism in Central and South America, continental Europe (especially the Latin countries), Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland was regularly reported in the English press, together with statements to the effect that such behavior "couldn't happen in England. one game when aberdeen won the league in 1984 on a wednesday night, the gorgie lads waited for the asc to come out of the ground and attacked from all angles, forcing us back into our end.Similarly, our meeting with the blue half of Merseyside on this day, was also memorably impacted by fashion.