Books

	Armed for the Match: The Troubles and Trial of the Chelsea Headhunters In the aftermath of the Heysel disaster in 1985, Margaret Thatcher declared war on football hooliganism. The Chelsea Headhunters were the worst offenders and one man was deemed public enemy number one: Steve "Hickey" Hickmott. This is the story of his battle to clear his name. More/Buy...
	Barmy Army: The Changing Face of Football Violence 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. More/Buy...
	Blades Business Crew 20 year diary of the violent exploits of The Blades Business Crew. Visiting 91 of the 92 football league grounds, fighting at most of them, Cowens reveals links between different hooligan groups, how they communicate and organise. He also details confrontations with leading gangs as well as lesser known but equally active gangs at smaller clubs. More/Buy...
	Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan The memoirs of a football hooligan from the 1980s. The story of designer fasion and designer violence. More/Buy...
	Bovver It's the 1970s. The hair is shaved, the music is funky and the football is violent - very, very violent. Every Saturday, legions of football fans take to the terraces to do battle with each other. Chris Brown was in the thick of it. The regulation haircut, clip-on braces, shrunk Levis and bovver boots - he had the look that every self-respecting bovver boy tried for, and he launched himself into the culture of the decade with a passion. This is a story of those times. More/Buy...
	Bring Out Your Riot Gear: Hearts Are Here! The so-called English Disease has as long a history in Scotland, only it is not as well documented. The money men who are seeking to re-write football history will hate it, but in Bring Out Your Riot Gear - Hearts Are Here!, C.S. Ferguson tells it as it was when Hearts had one of the most feared followings north of the border. More/Buy...
	Capital Punishment: Londons Violent Football Following London is home to some of British football's most notorious hooligans. This book explains how these groups have gained and maintained their reputations, why hooligans see a trip to London as a challenge, and how the system of public transport opens up opportunities for those who wish to fight. More/Buy...
	Cass Cass Pennant is a man who lets his fists do the talking. One of the hardest men in Britain, he lives his life on the edge of the law, giving respect where respect is due and dishing out terrible retribution upon anyone who dares to cross him. Cass's life story reads like a Hollywood gangster movie. He tells the amazing stories of how he once saved the life of World Boxing Champion Frank Bruno when skinheads were attacking him with knives; and how he was shot three times in the chest in a South London nightclub but still kept of fighting. More/Buy...
	Casuals: The Story of Terrace Fashion First came the Teds, then the Mods and the Rockers, then Hippies, Skinheads and Punks. But by the late '70s there was a new youth culture, one whose followers formed violent gangs, and were known as "scallies," "trendies" and "dressers" until the name Casuals stuck. Tracing the roots of this movement with interviews from the main 'faces'. More/Buy...
	City Psychos Tracing the genesis of the Hull City football hooligan mob from the formative'60s to the present day, with personal recollections and interviews with former gang members, Shuan Torduff, a former member of the Hull City football hooligan gang, recounts the infamous Battle of Dock Street, the Rugby Wars that split the city, the era of the notorious Hull City Psychos, the trips on Mad Eddie's Battle Wagon, and the resurgence of soccer violence at the football club in the 1990s. More/Buy...
	Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF Cass Pennant was one of the best-known figures of the I.C.F. Using his unique position as a West Ham insider, he brings together first-hand accounts, both on and off the terraces. These tales from the terraces range from the inflamed East End rivalry with Millwall, to shed-end-battles with Chelsea, from aggravation at Anfield's Kop to the disaster at Heysel. Unfolding against a backdrop of sharp fashion and music, such as The Cockney Rejects and Sham 69 the hallmark of the hoolifans. More/Buy...
	Derby Days: The Games We Love to Hate A look at all the derby matches, tracing the history of the hostility and showing the story from both sides - United and City. Attention is paid not just to the famous derbies, like Liverpool versus Everton, but to less-publicized confrontations such as Exeter versus Plymouth More/Buy...
	England, My England The Trouble with the National Football Team. Football violence, known everywhere as "the English disease", is as widespread as it has ever been, argue the authors of this book. They give insight into trips abroad and explore issues and myths surrounding football violence and the most feared group of supporters in the world - the England fans. More/Buy...
	England's Number One Since 1985, Paul Dodd has gained notoriety the world over as a leading figure with England's hard-core travelling band of troublemakers and Carlisle United's infamous Border City Firm. Told in his own words, this book provides a murky insight into the dangerous and violent life of Britain's most notorious soccer thug. More/Buy...
	Eurotrashed The Rise and Rise of Europes Football Hooligans. Hooliganism may often be deemed the "English disease", yet increasingly some of the most violent supporters come not from the UK but from the continent. The banner "Welcome to Hell" that was waved at Manchester United fans when they visited Galatasaray a few yeas ago became horribly true when two Leeds supporters were murdered by Turkish fans in 2000. But this was only one example of the increasing tide of shocking behaviour that was taking place in Italy, Holland, Germany and elsewhere. More/Buy...
	Everywhere We Go: Behind the Matchday Madness This volume offers an insight into the behaviour of the football thug. It features many first-hand accounts of incidents, from both perpetrators and victims, that make chilling reading. It builds up to provide a comprehensive look behind the matchday madness and explores other related issues. More/Buy...
	Guvnors For fifteen years, Michael Francis and his brothers headed the Guvnors - one of the toughest and most notorious gangs of football hooligans to soil the streets and football terraces of Britain. Now out of prison and willing to break his silence, Francis comes clean and reveals the inside story of his life. More/Buy...
	Hoolifan: 30 Years of Hurt The story of Martin King and his 30 years of involvement with football hooliganism, particularly as a member of the notorious Chelsea Headhunters. He describes the leading characters, famous fights, planned ambushes and sets hooliganism in its social context. More/Buy...
	Hooligan (Mainstream Sport) Steven Morris and his group of football thugs are the most feared football firm in the country. Up till now his network of "scouts" have always kept the firm one step ahead of the opposition, but is there someone trying to set them up? This is the fiction debut of the author of "Everywhere We Go". More/Buy...
	Hooligan Wars: Causes and Effects of Football Violence The good, the bad, the beautiful game: a mix that few can explain and yet whenever football hooliganism breaks out, the government, the football authorities, the police and journalists are all too ready to offer quick-fix solutions that rarely consider the underlying causes of the violence. This title looks behind the easy answers by comparing England's fan culture to football supporters' experience in France, Germany and Holland. More/Buy...
	Invasion and Deportation: a Diary of Euro 2000 Two England fans followed England throughout their Euro 2000 campaign, from the first qualifying game in Sweden to the finals themselves in Belgium and Holland. Forget the tabloid headlines and the TV sound bites. This is the reality of following England home and away. More/Buy...
	No One Likes Us, We Dont Care The myth and reality of Millwall freedom. Garry Robson does his subject proud and in coining the term 'Millwallism' has surely achieved a sociological first. More/Buy...
	Rolling with the 657 Crew Portsmouth's 657 Crew: the most talked-about casual football firm of the eighties and nineties. Never out of the headlines, this notorious gang took their name from the time of the train they caught to away games, following their team fanatically around the country with the kind of dedication only a football fan knows. More/Buy...
	Scum Airways: Inside Footballs Underground Economy Football is big business, and it doesn't come much bigger than Manchester United - commercial giants and the richest club in the world. But in the shadow of Old Trafford, a black economy is growing to rival the commercial power of the official sales channels. "Scum Airways" is an inside investigation of the Manchester grafters, touts, black marketeers and shady dealers who have come up with a remarkably successful money-making venture. More/Buy...
	Soul Crew The Inside Story of Britain's Most Violent Hooligan Gang; The Cardiff Soul Crew are recognised by police intelligence officers as the most violent football hooligan gang currently active in Britain. Their 400-plus members have been involved in mass disorder at matches for more than twenty-five years. Yet they have largely escaped the notoriety of their English counterparts - until now. More/Buy...
	Steaming In: Journal of a Football Fan An account of life on the terraces in the 1970s and 80s, this book is an inside story of a football fan. Colin Ward's experiences at Arsenal, Chelsea and England matches, at home and abroad and his experiences of camaraderie and confrontations, chavinism, hatred and colourful terrace characters are charted. He is outspoken on drunkenness, racism and unprovoked viciousness and has harsh words to say about the attitude of politicians and the media to football hooliganism. More/Buy...
	Tear Gas and Ticket Touts: With the England Fans at the World Cup Predictions of trouble and ticket touts having a field day are shown to be true in Brimson's diary as he witnessed the violence, saw some of the organisers at work, how the media covered it and why they got it wrong. This is an eyewitness account of World Cup 1998 experienced by many who went to France. More/Buy...
	Terrace Legends Meet the men who, for decades, have ruled the football terraces. The faces behind the biggest firms; behind the rucks, the rules and the respect. They have caused chaos for the public and the press and struck fear into rival fans. In this book, the men behind the mobs have joined forces to reveal their experiences as key figures in the most notorious terrace fights. From the bovver boys of the sixties and seventies to the football casuals of the eighties - the names that were to become the stuff that terrace legends were made of. More/Buy...
	The Boys from the Mersey The Story of Liverpools Annie Road End Crew, Footballs First Clobbered Up Mob. The young scally crew who dressed different, spoke different and met at the Anfield Road End. Their travels would become legends, a bunch of blaggers and fighters to whom every 'No Entry' sign was a challenge and every price tag a joke. More/Buy...
	The Crew Billy Evans is the suspected kingpin of one of the most notorious hooligan gangs in the country and is putting together a 'super-crew' for England's match in Italy. The police are onto him but will they work out what's going on and be able to stop it? More/Buy...
	The Naughty Nineties: Footballs Coming Home? As television money has poured into the game, the traditional working class fans have poured out. Not by choice but by economic necessity. Their places on the terraces have been replaced by posh seats and those in charge of the game are proud that, according to them, the football hooligan has at last been eliminated. But how true is this? Ironically, he finds that although football hooligans are now a minority, their maturity, experience and dedication are higher than ever. The firms are smaller but far more dangerous. More/Buy...
	Top Dog Follow up book to 'The Crew'. Billy Evans regards the law as irrelevant, exerting influence over the back street pubs and clubs of East London. When Billy gets the chance to make some serious money very quickly by helping a football club with an insurance scam he discovers he pushed his luck too far. More/Buy...
	Who Wants It? Chris Henderson formed the Chelsea Headhunters as well as the band Combat 84. Violence surrounding Chelsea fans was around long before Chris came on the scene. Told in Chris Henderson's words, this is the dramatic story of the era of music and football. More/Buy...