Among the Thugs - Hardcover

Buford, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436075261 ISBN 13: 9780436075261

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

The author of this book has spent most of his spare time "among the thugs", the hooligans whose violence scars the face of English football. He has written a work of investigative journalism and a meditation on the violence that lies just beneath the surface of English life.

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Review:

"Superbly written ... darkly exhilarating ... a sort of rollercoaster chamber of horrors" (Guardian)

"Compelling, intelligent and fully engaged" (Martin Amis)

"[Buford] gatecrashes a social world that most of us have spent some portion of our lives avoiding and brings it to life on the page with a ferocious relish that only someone who was a foreigner to soccer could manage, or stomach" (Jonathan Raban)

"Buford's reportage is vivid and racy, dropping you in the thick of the madness with a Wolfe-like immediacy" (Daily Telegraph)

"The excellence of his writing takes the reader to the centre of the mob... His words have the fragmented accuracy of a hand-held television camera in a war zone" (John Stalker Sunday Times)

"Possesses something of the quality of A Clockwork Orange" (The Times)

"This is an absorbing read, and another winner from Buford, who writes so very, very well" (Buzzfeed)

"Among the Thugs is, by some distance, the best book ever written about football violence. Intelligent, succinct, and always in the thick of it, it reads as a blood-fuelled ode to English football, and as a primer for what will be when Russia hosts the World Cup. It grabs the readers attention like a headbutt to the cakehole." (Tony Parsons)

"Sizzling writing to rival the best of white-heat gonzo journalism" (New Statesman)

"An extraordinary and powerful cautionary cry." (Kirkus)

Book Description:

Before Running with the Firm came Among the Thugs - the bestselling classic account of football violence in English football.

About this edition

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0436075261
• ISBN 13: 9780436075261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224