What sort of man spends his Saturday afternoons with people named Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy? Bill Buford's acclaimed Among the Thugs is a book about the experience, and the attractions, of crowd violence.
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"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)
Before Running with the Firm came Among the Thugs - the bestselling classic account of football violence in English football.
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