Soul Crew

Authors:

By David Jones, Tony Rivers

Format:

Paperback

Availability:

In print, usually dispatched within 48 hours.

Price:

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Football, Football Violence, Cardiff City FC

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Further Details

• Published: 1st Mar 2002
• ISBN: 1903854083
• Pages: 216

From Word of Sport:

Two former members of Cardiff's ruck loving Soul Crew recall all manner of episodes from their years of particularly violent mayhem. Saving their most intense vitriol for the Jacks of Swansea City, they offer a blackly humorous hooli-fest with all the familiar tales of casual brutality.

From the Publisher:

One football gang has made the headlines more than any other over the past decade: the Cardiff Soul Crew. Formed in the early Eighties, it took its name from its followers' love of soul music and brought together disparate mobs from the Welsh capital city and from the surrounding valleys and industrial towns.

Authors Dave Jones and Tony Rivers give a compelling insiders' account of clashes with violent crews from London, Middlesbrough, Plymouth and Glasgow and they describe the intense rivalry with the Jacks of Swansea City. They reveal how internal tensions have prevented the gang from having a clear leadership and they tell of their obsession with the casual fashion scene and explain how they have forged friendships with fellow terrace obsessives from all over Britain.

Told with black humour and unflinching honesty, Soul Crew is an explosive account of how the hooligan culture has prevailed despite the best efforts of police, politicians and the football authorities to stamp it out.