Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan

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I did this by having some combat veterans who’d settled on Haven after serving in Federal America’s armed forces during a previous war.

Some of these people are intelligent and articulate and would argue that they are particpating in an extreme sport with other willing participants and should be left alone to do so without causing any problems for the rest of society. I was watching a documentary on Martin McGuiness on BBC4 the other night and he was coming out with the same "we don't kill civilians" nonsense. It recounted how, in the early Eighties, the Aberdeenshire farmer's son moved to the city at 16 and became a founding force in the Aberdeen Casuals. Covering up his Glaswegian accent with the excuse that he worked offshore and wanted a fight, he joined ASC and watched on as they battled with fans from across the country.Sorry to disappoint you mate but he was there week in, week out with Hearts' firm right from the start. Unlike those other books, CS does in actual fact tell the tales of when the Hearts crew are on the back foot or getting a "doing". In reply to Paul Atkinson: mob dynamics aside I think it is fundamentally wrong to ascribe it all to gang mentality and courage in numbers - the physical courage and indifference to personal risk of injury is a real phenomenon and possessed only by a minority - the available outlets in our society are restricted to joining the forces or getting in to hooliganism. A journalist even found himself tangled in some battles when Andy Colvin went undercover to discover what life was like as part of Scotland's football firms.

there are a lot of blokes who've been drawn to hooliganism precisely because they're very violent and who are fearsome fighters. Throughout the autobiography, Jay, describes the life of a soccer casual, from the short journeys to the Schooner (pub) before home games, to the long distance ferry to Gothenburg for the most famous game in Aberdeen's history. All, and I mean without exception, the "hooligans" that I dealt with were a lot of noise and not a lot of action.The book is full of escapades, described in such a way, that you can image the exact scene, hiding in a pub waiting for the moment that the Motherwell casuals are just passed the entrance waiting to be ambushed by the Aberdeen soccer casuals. In the city "that dared to stand up to the Old Firm", Dyer met several former members of ASC having taken a stroll along the beach before admitting "I think it's the furthest north I've ever been in my life.

But I was aiming for something grittier, and definitely more based on history and actual revolutions than Star Wars. Heading to Glasgow for the Old Firm, Edinburgh to meet Hibs' Capital City Service firm, and Dundee to be left staggered by how close the city's two grounds are, the TV series on Bravo swiftly became a hit.By "real" I mean violence that has an intent as opposed to violence that is merely an extraneous expression with no intended outcome. Facts are facts, this is what happened if you want to compile a book of your own living days then do so, look forward to it. The Evertonian very obviously had ripped his trousers – hence the ten minutes of complaining about it, so to ask him if he had was simply hilarious (who says it’s only Scousers with a great sense of humour! They make it sound so similar to the buzz of leading at your limit with gear below your feet rather than an exercise in extreme inhumanity but having seen too many damaged human bodies through my work I find that line hard to swallow. If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu.

I’m a history buff and always have been, so I was, of course, interested in various rebellions and the like. 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. I was dragged up in one of the not so salubrious parts (by no means the worst) and Heart of Midlothian, in fitbaw terms, for what it may be worth, is a lovely fitbaw club. of people who do martial arts do not have what it takes mentaly to win a fight against a real fighter. Most climbers don't need 30,000 of their mates at their back egging them on before they have the guts to climb.So, in that spirit, here’s one of mine which, with the current coming together of disparate cultures at the World Cup seems rather apt.