Hooligan Wars [DVD]

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Chatterton P and Hollands R (2003) Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power (London: Routledge). She would come to United games in Dortmund, at Feyenoord and in Milan," he tells ESPN FC. "She used to meet these mates of mine. She was an intelligent girl and said that I needed to write about my colleagues and friends, all these crazy characters." Wilson B (2006) Fight, Flight or Chill: Subcultures, Youth and Rave into the Twenty-First Century (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press).

Significantly, then, work on football hooligan subcultures has not featured in this rethinking of subculture in post-subcultural studies, though related studies of contemporary rave culture have figured strongly (Muggleton and Weinzierl, 2003: 101-117; Bennett and Kahn-Harris, 2004: 65-78; Wilson, 2006). Perhaps the reason for this omission is that little sustained sociological and anthropological theorising and rigorous academic ethnography of football hooligan subcultures has been conducted over the last twenty-five years. Honourable exceptions to this rule are rare (Armstrong, 1998; Robson, 2000; Sugden, 2002, Sugden, 2007; Slaughter, 2004). In many other cases it is clear that fans winding up gullible authors with hooligan stories has become almost a national pastime (see, for instance, Buford, 2001). Another reason is that the specific intertwining of football hooligan subcultures and rave culture was generally a UK phenomenon rather than an international one (Redhead, 1990, 1991, 1993a). A further reason is that football hooliganism has become something of, in Jean Baudrillard’s terms (Pawlett, 2007; Merrin, 2005), a simulacrum through media simulation. The extreme form of football hooligan subculture has manifested itself in the strange ‘ pulp fiction’ of the once underground ‘football thug’ writing scene. I want to suggest that one way into a realm of better informed ethnographies of contemporary football hooligan subcultures is through this simulacrum. Here comes this German woman who makes this movie people a lot of Brits think are dirt," says Alexander. "But it's not only a British thing, it's everywhere but America, and at least hooligans don't run around with guns. There is a resistance to it, that was personal, it was about who did it, and how. That put a cloud over how hugely successful it is. Blaney suggests these books appeal to an audience who would not otherwise choose to read. "People's sons come up at Old Trafford and tell me that they've read my book, and they're only about 12 and say they've never read another book in their life," he says. "The wife of Brian Kidd [United legend and current City coach] told me that Brian never reads books, but that he couldn't put mine down.

Inevitably their limited resources of this level of football club are insufficient to hire enough police or stewards to be able to cope with serious trouble when it occurs. In 2006, Danny Dyer, to follow his starring role in "The Football Factory," accepted a commission from production company ZigZag to present "The Real Football Factories," in which Dyer travelled Britain and, for a second series, South America and Europe, to meet real-life hooligans. Redhead S (1995) Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press). Fist S and Baddiel I (2005) Bottle: the Completely True Story of an Ex-Football Hooligan. (Edinburgh: Mainstream).

Robinson T (2007) MIG Crew: The Story of Luton’s MIG Crew As Told From The Sharp End of Football’s Frontline (Hove: Pennant).If our generation had been in the army, we'd be talking about that, but we all missed out on the [Second World] war and became an army on the terraces. Like the oldies used to talk about Singapore or dropping into Cairo or something, we talk about going to France to fight St Etienne or things like that." WHEN UNITED AND City get to have their organised fights, it only happens once every two years," Colin Blaney says. "It's usually up in Oldham in a car park. It never really happens at the football, and I'm glad."

The Yorkshire actress has also appeared in Waterloo Road before appearing on London's Burning, and following the show starred in The Chase (the drama series), and Lip Service. Pennant C and Silvester R (2003) Rolling with the 6.57 Crew: the True Story of Pompey’s Legendary Football Fans (London: John Blake). Once a blight on English football, hooliganism has been all but eradicated at football grounds in the Premier League era. Yet a pop culture fascination with football violence endures. Photofusion/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesWHEN FOOTBALL VIOLENCE takes place these days, the kind that Hotshot recognises, it is almost exclusively away from stadia.

Redhead S (2004c) ‘ Hit and Tell: A Review Essay on the Soccer Hooligan Memoir’ Soccer and Society Vol 5 No 3. McRae L (2006) ‘ The Redhead Review: Popular Cultural Studies and Accelerated Modernity’ History of Intellectual Culture Vol 6 No 1. It's an aspirational thing," says Daniel Sandison, a Liverpool-supporting terrace fashion expert and journalist with Halcyon Magazine, as well as the co-creator of Stand Against Modern Football. "That's happened through each gang of lads since the '60s when people were skint but bought an Italian suit. Living beyond your means has always been that thing of getting by and then spending all your money to look the best you can. That goes beyond football. Redhead S (1990) The End-of-the-Century Party: Youth and Pop Towards 2000. (Manchester: Manchester University Press).Millwall" is viewable on Youtube, as are many such documentaries, with 2000's " Macintyre Uncovered" a particular hit. Investigative journalist Donal Macintyre infiltrated Chelsea's Headhunters, and his findings resulted in hefty sentences for those he caught boasting of their antics. One convicted hooligan boasted, while being filmed by a hidden camera, of slashing an off-duty police officer and their setting up "meets" with rival supporters via mobile phones. All we're going for is a good game of football, a good punch-up and a good piss-up," is the view of Harry The Dog, a now deceased Millwall fan who became a cult figure for his unreconstructed approach to terrace life. When we went down there the next year, we were unstoppable. We went over and got plotted up, and took it from there. There was nothing arranged or anything like that. We'd do our thing, they'd do their thing, and then we'd take it on, like we did we everyone, like we always had to." Pennant C and Nicholls A (2006) Thirty years of Hurt: The History of England’s Hooligan Army (Hove: Pennant).