Bovver

Author:

By Chris Brown

Format:

Hardback

Availability:

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Price:

£15.99 £12.79 (Save 20%)

Tagged with:

Football, Football Violence, Bristol Rovers FC

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Further Details

• Published: 1st Mar 2001
• ISBN: 1903402174
• Pages: 256

From Word of Sport:

Reminiscences of a Bristol Rovers fan. Pacy account of the youth culture of the 70s, focusing primarily on the hooligan exploits of a group of Rovers' fans. Unapologetically violent, it is nonetheless wholly authentic in its depiction of the music, fashion and rucking of the decade when decline seemed terminal.

From the Publisher:

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. A true story of the most maligned decade in British history - the seventies - the music, the fashion, the violence.