Hooligan gang leader Billy Evans is above the law. He knows it, and they know it. And when you regard the law as an irrelevance, all kinds of opportunities can open up for you. Especially when you begin to exert your increasingly powerful influence over the back street pubs and clubs of East London.
So when Billy gets the chance to make some serious money very quickly by helping a football club with an insurance scam, he grabs it with both hands.
But he's about to discover that this time, he's finally pushed his luck too far. And this time it isn't the law he'll have to contend with. It's something far more dangerous.
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The Geezers’ Guide to Football: A lifetime of Lads and Lager
‘..a fantastic book…a bible for anyone who wants to know what all pissed up football loving geezers spend their lives doing’ Total Football
‘Like Fever Pitch with Dr Martens on…’ Four-Four-Two
‘Hilarious…. any real football fans out there must have it in their collection’ Hull Daily Mail
Football isn't all about players, tactics or even satellite telly. It's about a culture. A culture born out of the obsession, fanaticism and humour that is football fandom. The ultimate product of that culture is the Geezer. The sexist, elitist and abusive yob who, clad in his designer clothes, follows his chosen team week in, week out. Every club has them in their hundreds, but who or what are they? And just why do they do what they do?
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Billy's Log:
The hilarious diary of one man's struggle with life, lager and the female race
Bridget Jones's Diary… for lads!
‘The most humorous portrayal of the male psychosis since High Fidelity’ Blind, Stupid & Desperate magazine
‘Men Behaving Badly meets Nick Hornby in a hilarious look at male inadequacy’ pickabook.co.uk
For Billy Ellis, life is one series of disasters after another. His haemorrhoids have just cost him promotion, his new boss is threatening to move in next door, and on the very occasions he need a condom, he can't even buy a packet without almost getting arrested. As if that wasn't bad enough, he's suddenly woken up to the fact that he's almost thirty, still single and has the looks that give a new meaning to the word ‘average’. But at the end of last year, as always, Billy read his ‘Log of Life’ and vowed to make things better. And this year, he succeeded. Eventually. Billy's Log reveals the frustrations of life for a single male and the never-ending battle to understand the workings of the female mind.
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Kicking Off
Why hooliganism and racism are killing football
The media and police claim the battle against football hooligans has been all but won. Those who study the culture of football know only too well that behind the squeaky clean corporate image being fed to the public lie some dark and unpalatable truths.
Compiled by best-selling author, screenwriter and world-renowned hooliganism expert Dougie Brimson, KICKING OFF picks up the debate where BARMY ARMY left it – Euro 2000 and the horrific murders of two Leeds United fans in Turkey.
In his own uncompromising style Brimson exposes the truth and paints a disturbing picture of what lies ahead for the game if the culture of hate, racism and violence remains unchecked.
Controversial points examined include:
The issue of racism and in particular the idea that the anti-racist groups have exploited football to further their own objectives. It also examines the thorny issue of Asians within football and for the first time explores the reasons why so few Asian players have made the grade.
Policing football. This includes an explanation into how the game has been manipulated to allow the development of ever more intrusive and subversive surveillance techniques as well as to place increasingly draconian legislation onto the statue books.
The media's role in the continued existence of hooliganism and an explanation as to why the problem looks certain to increase if the game continues to do nothing.
Finally, the book lays out a unique and totally workable long-term solution to the issue of football related violence.
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Eurotrashed
The Rise and Rise of Europe's Football Hooligans
Football Hooliganism, so long regarded as the ‘English Disease’, is rife throughout the European game. Yet, while the English scene has been well documented, no one has ever exposed the extent to which the hooligan problem has come to infect the game on the Continent. Until now.
Bestselling author and world-renowned hooliganism expert Dougie Brimson has spoken to experts, journalists and even hooligans themselves to examine the truth behind the spread of football violence across Europe. In Eurotrashed he paints a disturbing picture of just how deeply entrenched in the fabric of European football the culture of hooliganism has become.
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‘Naughty: The story of a Football Hooligan Gang’ by Mark Chester
In 1985, forty hooligan followers of Stoke City FC experienced a riotous trip to Portsmouth - and the Naughty Forty was born. It became one of the most notorious soccer gangs in Britain.
Mark Chester was a founder member of the N40. Already a hardened fighter, he had been expelled from school after an unsettled childhood and joined the Staffordshire Regiment, only to be discharged for misconduct. Stoke City‘s emerging ‘casual’ mob became his family. ‘Right or wrong, I was ready to be a committed football hooligan,’ he says.
He recounts tales of raucous coach trips from the Glebe pub and the pivotal clashes with the likes of Everton, Manchester United and West Ham that defined the new firm. Formidable characters came to the forefront, men like the giant Mark Bentley, Philler the Beast and the legendary Miffer, while hair-raising clashes with the likes of Millwall, Spurs, Aston Villa and Manchester City saw the gang's reputation spread.
The N40 code was simple: whatever the odds, they would always make a stand. Many times they fought when heavily outnumbered yet often came out on top. They developed a closeness and cohesion rare among the football gangs. Loyalty was their watchword.
Soon they were joined by the Under-Fives, a younger element determined to win acceptance from the terrace legends they admired and who carved out their own niche as well as fighting side by side with the old-school heads.
Police operations, bans from the ground and the introduction of ID schemes have prevented many from attending games, but the author, long ‘retired’ from the scene, argues that in the new millennium the gangs are back - and as ferocious as ever. NAUGHTY is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the illicit but seductive lure of terrace combat, the emotional ties of a gang and the addictive buzz of Saturday afternoons.
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First published in e-book format in 2011
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Contents
Cover Page
The Crew
About the Author
Prelude
Part One
Chapter 1: Saturday, 4 September 1999, 11.15
Chapter 2: Monday, 6 September 1999, 07.05
Chapter 3: Wednesday, 8 September, 16.20
Chapter 4: Thursday, 30 September, 05.24
Chapter 5: Friday, 1 October, 14.30
Part Two
Chapter 6: Saturday, 2 October, 08.30
Chapter 7: Saturday, 2 October, 13.45
Chapter 8: Monday, 4 October, 12.00
Chapter 9: Tuesday, 5 October, 10.00
Chapter 10: Wednesday, 6 October, 11.15
Chapter 11: Thursday, 7 October, 09.15
Part Three
Chapter 12: Sunday, 24 October, 06.10
Chapter 13: Sunday, 24 October, 17.00
Chapter 14: Tuesday, 26 October, 11.20
Chapter 15: Tuesday, 26 October, 15.00
Chapter 16: Tuesday, 26 October, 18.00
Part Four
Chapter 17: Tuesday, 26 October, 19.30
Chapter 18: Tuesday, 26 October, 20.45
Chapter 19: Tuesday, 26 October, 22.00
Chapter 20: Wednesday, 27 October, 08.45
Part Five
Chapter 21: Friday, 29 October, 10.30
Chapter 22: Saturday, 30 October, 09.00
Chapter 23: Saturday, 30 October, 17.10
Chapter 24: Sunday, 31 October, 09.30
Chapter 25: Wednesday, 17 November, 11.20
Chapter 26: Tuesday, 8 February 2000, 14.45
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