Product Description: This study is an affectionate and revealing account of the life of the sporting anorak. Disclosing the experiences and methodology of the self-confessed soccer-fact fanatic, it goes a long way to discrediting the traditionally held belief that geeks lead drab daily existences...read more

Football supporters are the lifeblood of the national game. They turn out in their masses to sing their hearts out for the lads. Here, the author don's the bobble hat and scarf in pursuit of the ultimate football anthem. He also looks at the history of the songs, drinks with the fans in an attempt to unravel the mystery of spontaneous songmaking.

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Product Description: This text looks at why hooliganism continues to pose a major threat to the modern game, and reveals how football violence has evolved from the terrace conflict of the 1970s into the Internet-led designer combat of the millennium. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines how groups of young male fans come to be defined and identified as football `hooligans’ and challenges the assumption that violence is wholly central to the match-day experience for these supporters. Rather, the creation of identity is at the root of hooliganism, with all the cultural values and rituals, codes of honour and shame, and communal patterns of behaviour and consumption that accompany it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A journalist who spent eight years traveling with and gathering information on Britain's notorious soccer hooligans chronicles his extraordinary experiences with these dangerous, violent, and fiercely loyal fans (view table of contents)