Blades Business Crew

Author:

By Steve Cowens

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Paperback

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Football, Football Violence, Sheffield United FC

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Further Details

• Published: 30th Apr 2001
• ISBN: 0953084787
• Pages: 250

From Word of Sport:

With a foreword from former Blade face Paul Heaton of The Beautiful South, this is a gritty account of following Sheffield Utd from the 1970s onwards. The usual stuff proliferates in the usual fastidious detail; clashing with otherf irms, twatting people, mayhem in pubs and clubs and all the fun of the chase.

From the Publisher:

For two decades, Steve Cowens was a core member of one of the country's most active firms: the Blades Business Crew. He followed Sheffield United to almost every League ground in England and fought at most of them. And he kept a remarkable diary of his exploits, including clashes with top hooligan firms from London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Cardiff.

He also tells how Sheffield became a city at war as the BBC fought it out with the rival Owls Crime Squad and how pubs and clubs were left wrecked by the 'bouncer wars' involving CS gas and baseball attacks.

This is the most detailed account ever of the life of a 'top boy' and the unquenchable thirst for confrontation of the football gangs.