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Author Woods, Andrew

Title No-one likes us, we don't care! : true stories from Millwall, Britain's most notorious football fans / Andrew Woods
Published Chicago : John Blake, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright; Author's Note; Contents; 1 WE HEARD THE CHANT; 2 FROM THE ELEPHANT TO THE DEN; 3 THE HAMMERS GET HAMMERED; 4 HOOKED; 5 SWINGING THE BLUES; 6 GUNNING FOR TROUBLE; 7 A TRIP DOWN THE WALWORTH ROAD; 8 PLOUGHING INTO THE TRACTOR BOYS; 9 CRIME DOES SOMETIMES PAY; 10 ON THE MARCH WITH F-TROOP; 11 THE PRIDE OF LONDON'S LIONS; 12 CHEWING TOFFEES; 13 OUTNUMBERED ... BUT NOT OUTCLASSED; 14 AUNTIE PAYS A VISIT; 15 THE HATTERS GO MAD; 16 HIBS SCOTCHED; 17 1985 -- THE YEAR FOOTBALL LIVED DANGEROUSLY; 18 DERBY FAILS TO SCALE THE 'WALL; 19 MAGGIE THATCHER, FOOTBALL SNATCHER
20 MANCHESTER BEATEN RED AND BLUE21 AGONY AND ECSTASY; 22 CHOPPING DOWN FOREST; 23 MARSHALLING THE TROOPS; 24 WELSH LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER; 25 THE LIONS LEAVE THE DEN; 26 NAUGHTY ... AND NOT VERY NICE; 27 KICKING OFF AT THE NEW DEN; 28 THE FIRM EARNS ITS SPURS; 29 WITHIN A STONE'S THROW -- CHARLTON AND CRYSTAL PALACE; 30 ROAD TO NOWHERE; 31 ROCK BOTTOM; 32 SHEEP IN WOLVES' CLOTHING; 33 HOOLIGANS IN YOUR LIVING ROOM; 34 BANGING THE BRUM; 35 TALKING OF MILLWALL ... ; 36 SPORTING GENIUS ... AND STUPIDITY; 37 FRIDAY NIGHT, BRISTOL'S ALL RIGHT; 38 HOOLIGANISM -- PURE GENIUS; 39 SEASONAL MADNESS
40 STRANGERS IN OUR MIDST41 SWEET FA; 42 GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT; 43 HUNGARY FOR A EUROPEAN TEAR-UP; 44 THE FIGURES DON'T LIE -- DO THEY?; 45 SO I SUPPOSE A RUCK'S OUT OF 232 THE QUESTION, THEN?; 46 BLACK, WHITE AND BLUE; 47 SINKING FEELING AFTER 'DAMAGING' HULL; 48 HOOLIE HEAVEN; 49 WE'RE FOREVER BURSTING BUBBLES; 50 HANDLING OLD BILL -- A 268 BEGINNER'S GUIDE; 51 THE LIONS' ROAR -- MILLWALL'S CHANTS
Summary Meet the UK's most notorious football hooligans. Author Andrew Woods has come face-to-face with Millwall's most famous firm and now, for the first time, the Bushwackers reveal all about their bloodiest battles and fiercest rivalries - in their own words. But among the camaraderie, the battles of wits with the police and the exhilarating toe-to-toe run-ins with the opposition, this book also examines the history of hooliganism and why measures brought in to combat violence have failed. Packed with hilarious characters. shocking tales and plenty of excitement, no stone is left unturned in this j
Notes Print version record
Subject Millwall Football Club.
SUBJECT Millwall Football Club fast
Subject Soccer hooliganism -- England -- London
Hoodlums -- England -- London
Soccer -- Social aspects -- England
Soccer fans -- England -- London
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sociology of Sports.
Hoodlums
Soccer fans
Soccer hooliganism
Soccer -- Social aspects
England
England -- London
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781843585312
1843585316