Hes there at the training ground, in the dressing room before and after the match, and even ended up sitting on the bench alongside bill nick on occasion. World football i was a football hooligan for 30 years, and i loved every second of it. Racism and thuggery was far more common back in the 1980s. In the united kingdom, hooliganism hit its height in the 70s, when firms such as the red army manchester united, suicide squad burnley, villa hardcore aston villa, and the herd arsenal started to organise in mass. Despite the history of terrace trouble on london derby day, this was the firstand lasttime that the ultimate cost of hooliganism became apparent at highbury. Ive mentioned chris lightbowns article on london football gangs a couple of times before, but the piece itself hasnt been available since it was first published in time out in 1972. For many years the russian military ruled football stadiums and was widely regarded as worse than hooligans for the vicious beatings they handed out. This page will provide you with sneak insights and endless updates on my soon to be released tottenham hooligan book toe 2 toe. Rioting tottenham hotspur fans tear down a section of iron railings in a bid to reach the chelsea supporters before a division one game at londons stamford bridge ground. Football hooliganism in my day was a scary pastime. Pdf hooligan writing and the study of football fan culture. A second book from trevor tanner, one of the leading members of the tottenham massive group of football hooligans who follow tottenham hotspur. The average england football hooligan is aged 25 to 44, has an above average income, is likely to be single and prefers to travel to away games. But just the travelling the camederie of our coach, this book brings these faces to life for me and maybe some of my mates.
Football factories has an english set, as well as episodes in italy, argentina, turkey, brazil, croatia, serbia, poland, and the netherlands iirc. Some real insight into the english culture of football hooliganism, and also a little into the culture of tottenham hotspur. Lifestyle es magazine come and have a go if you think youre cool enough you might think that the infamous football hooliganism of the 1980s was all mindless violence, but out of the fray. Several of the tottenham hotspur thugs were already subject to football banning orders. Trevor tanner is the man at the head of the tottenham massive.
He was the detective who led an undercover police team which smashed one of the countrys most feared football hooligan gangs birminghams zulu. And for the last fifteen years, the tottenham massive have been nurtured and guided by one individual. Best football hooligan books 2020 popular titles male. England soccer hooligans profiled uk news the guardian. Soldiers join hooligans to attack turks in cup clash uk. Essex boy carlton leach tells all about the icf and the rise of the foot soldier duration. They even had an improvised weapon named in their honor the millwall brick, made of a. After the match, an arsenal fan was stabbed to death in arsenal tube station. Hooligans of fc berlin with masked faces in match between fc carl zeiss jena and fc berlin in 1990. Football hooliganism in the united kingdom wikipedia. It might not be everybodys cup of tea, but this book is a trip up memory lane, and away days were never the same as these days. Tor the story of german football by ulrich hesselichtenberger.
In this book, tanner recounts further experiences including the story of his yearlong trial which resulted in an acquittal, but not before he had spent a month on the run from the authorities. The aforementioned the glory game by hunter davies is a football book of a type that we are unlikely to ever see again. There has been a big increase in disorder and trouble will grow if premier league clubs do not pay more towards the cost of policing. See more of toe 2 toe by dante hawkins on facebook. And football violence will always be the biggest buzz you will ever get.
The selfimposed title is derived from previous behaviour at away games where the singleminded involvement in violence against overwhelming odds could be described as suicidal. Russia has a fearsome reputation for football violence. I think its pretty well accepted that spurs are the guvnors now. Basically, tanner claims that the tottenham hotspur spurs football hooligan gang has fought against similar gangs at chelsea, millwall, west ham, arsenal, liverpool, manchester, wolves, leeds, portsmouth etc. Mauricio pochettino fears dutch hooligans targeting. Police and british football hooligans 1970 to 1980. A mounted policeman watches the situation closely as colleagues deal with crowd trouble at the brisbane road ground. This is a list of notable hooligan firms or football firms, which are groups that have been verified as participating in football hooliganism or other sportsrelated hooliganism. This is a list of notable hooligan firms or football firms, which are groups that have been verified. Tottenham hotspur yid army, tottenham massive, spurs n17. How spurs fans shaped the identity of one of the worlds most famous clubs cowritten with alan fisher.
And for the last fifteen years, the tottenham massive have been nurtured and guided by one individual trevor tanner. From the author of the bestselling tottenham massive comes this incendiary followup the most searingly honest and brutal book ever written about football. Looking for best documentaries on soccer hooligans. Having watched site like the football factory and green street that paint this quite ridiculas picture of west ham and chelsea coming to white hart lane and kicking fck out of anybody in sight on a regular basis been going for nearly a decade and i have never. In european countries such as england and poland, firms are clearly defined, but in latin america the situation is less clear cut. Hotshot the story of a little red devil my life as a football hooligan leader softback sale price save. A whos who of hooligans while association football fans will always be somewhat louder, more passionate, and a little rowdier than their american counterparts, much of the football violence of the 70s is a distant memory to most.
The hooligan firm of infamous english football club millwall, the bushwackers take their misspelled name from the american civil war ambushers, and no one would want to be attacked by these nasty brits. Tottenham s yid army are from north london and have been involved in organsied violence spanning 3 decades. Hotshot the story of a little red devil my life as a football hooligan leader. How undercover cops smashed birminghams feared zulu warriors. Tottenham hooligans tottenham s yid army are from north london and have been involved in organsied violence spanning 3 decades.
Interviews with the writers of these football hooligan memoirs illuminate a. Football hooligan, 31, attended match despite being banned. Mauricio pochettino fears dutch hooligans targeting tottenham fans as police warn of violence for champions league clash at psv eindhoven. The history books record the score and its there in black and white to brag about later on. Theres also apiece on liverpool away when we lost 70, it says nothing about the game, just pictures of the trouble afterwards. This book looks at how spurs fans played an important part in creating an identity of our worldrenowned club.
I couldnt help reflecting on the chelsea football club i used to frequent as a youth. By the middle of the decade, every football club in great britain had a firm attached to it. I am sure one was called ronnie but cant remember the other ones name. If the 1960s sowed the seeds for football hooliganism, the 1970s saw the firms make it into the bigtime, with barely a weekend passing without graphic images of terrace fighting. Its by a bloke called trevor tanner who is the so called head of the spurs firm.
Ed hawkins speaks to three ringleaders from the heyday of football hooliganism and asks. The story of trevor tanner, one of the leading members of the tottenham massive group of football hooligans who follow tottenham hotspur. Police believe it was either a prearranged fight organised over mobile phones and the internet or tottenham hooligans had ambushed chelsea fans in their own. The main hooligan firms belong to cska moscow, spartak moscow and zenit st petersburg. Try if you can get hold of a book called tottenham boys we are here which was a complete photographic diary of the 78 season im in it. However, since the 1980s and well into the 1990s the uk government has led a widescale crackdown on football related violence. Millwall, west ham united, arsenal or tottenham hotspur if you were playing chelsea. The leader, in what has become the norm for other firms that have followed years later. His latest book is called, a peoples history of tottenham hotspur football club.
Football hooligan, 31, made infamous by bbc documentary football fight club is caught in vip section of tottenham s new stadium despite being banned from every ground in the country. I was a football hooligan for 30 years, and i loved every. They can be found online or from any good high street bookstore. The first ever football hooligan book that went to print in the history of the english football hooligan books. Nicholls in his book scally, that tottenham brought the first cockney teams up in the. Beginning in at least the 1960s, the united kingdom gained a reputation worldwide for football hooliganism. Some had been involved in major hooliganism cases, involving chelsea, charlton, arsenal and west ham fans. And in that sentence, you have pretty much outlined this book. Soldiers join hooligans to attack turks in cup clash. Undercover police who were hiding in a bus opposite the spurs mobs pub secretley filming capture footage of chelsea firing a bottle at the pub and the spurs firm running out of the pub and chasing. The section on west ham was reprinted in the excellent 2008 anthology london calling, but the full article has been confined to libraries and private. From the 1970s, many organised hooligan firms were created across the uk, with most football league clubs having at least one known organised hooligan element.
Supporters of teams including arsenal, chelsea, leeds united, millwall, middlesbrough, tottenham hotspur, portsmouth, west ham united, leicester city, bristol city and cardiff city were among those most frequently linked to hooliganism. A peoples history of tottenham hotspur football club. Inside look into the spurs yid army arsenal and spurs fans clash at station tottenham fans kicking off in rotterdam vs feyenoord compilation video of spurs yid army hooligans in action. Yesterday judge rennie gave each of the defendants a sixyear football banning order, except lauderhawkins. The following books are recommended reading on the subject of football hooliganism in the uk.
To my horror i see to my right my pal holding his hand, slumped against a wall and pouring with blood. Davies is given full access behind the scenes at tottenham. If you thought english football hooliganism died in the 80s think again. Author hunter davies was given complete access to the inner. The suicide squad was a football hooligan firm linked to the english team burnley f. The name became synonymous with the group during the early 1980s and many of the original members, now in their fifties, are well. Football violence reached a new pitch at highbury that day. But the book isnt about football hooliganism, he assures me when i call him on the eve of his exhibition at dalstons pocko gallery. There have been many books written about footballs most uncompromising firms, but for years little has been revealed about one of the most secretive and ruthless of them all spurs. I have seen one of them mentioned somewhere but cant remember where now but it was a book about football hooligans and one of the parishes was mentioned as being well up in the firm and a right handful it wasnt ronnie though.