Football Hooligans

Author:

By Raymond Royce

Format:

Paperback

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In print, usually dispatched within 5-7 days.

Price:

£14.99

Tagged with:

Football, Football Violence, Fashion

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Further Details

• Published: 1st Mar 2008
• ISBN: 0859654079
• Pages: 128
• Size: 260mm x 190mm

From the Publisher:

Football hooliganism first made headlines after the 1909 Scottish Cup Final was abandoned as Celtic and Rangers supporters fought running battles on the pitch and in the street. By the late 1960s, violence at football matches had become ingrained as part of British youth culture, and quickly spread across Europe as young, working-class men sought to escape the drudgery of their daily existence and gain respect among their peers. Throughout the following decades the cult of the football hooligan developed and diversified across the world, with pitched battles fought everywhere from Birmingham to Buenos Aries. The global media reported on, and in some cases fuelled, this growing anti-social phenomenon, which reached its inevitable nadir as 39 people died on the crumbling terraces of Brussels' Heysel Stadium before the 1985 European Cup Final between Juventus (Turin) and Liverpool. Using a wealth of images that detail landmark hooligan outbreaks and the diverse and unique fashions of the combatants, Hooligans explores the development of this violent and compelling phenomenon.