Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan

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There was definitely lots of younger lads (14/20) left the Shed to join the casuals in the 85/86 season. We used to get casuals and hooligans of various kinds trying to get in to the pub at the weekend after games. Available for the first time in eBook format, this edition includes a short 2015 Foreword by Jay and details of the long awaited sequel.

I was trying to make a distinction before between the kind of silly scrapping that you often see outside pubs on a friday night (which usually ends with two bloke rolling around on the floor cuddling each other) and serious fighting, and I think it holds true that "violent" or "thug" types tend to fall into the first kind of fighting whereas "dangerous" types tend to go for the second - "thug" types just want to hurt someone whereas someone who's a genuine danger to you will want to seriously injure or kill you. I've heard stories of him being a nut job and stabbing folk but he continues to churn out the line 'Aberdeen Casual'. I’m pretty sure anyone who enjoyed either of these series would have a good chance of liking the other. me and 20 others are chasing 30 mods and skinheads up some side road - might as well waste them too. But when it came to figuring out how the rebellion, and the rebels in it, would behave in Flames Of Rebellion, and thus Rebellion’s Fury, were you more inspired by real-life rebellions or fictional ones?

Feel a bit guilty though as someone left it behind the bar in my local for me to read, it went round the bar before I eventually got it, and I still have it to this day.

Bloody casuals was so good because it didn't stretch the truth like so many books in this genre, I was present at almost all the events in the book (outwith the prison chapter ) and can vouch for Jay, legend of his time, from the casuals through to his raves, everything was always done with a touch of class. Yes, indeed and I was constantly told not by my dad not to go there (and I've seen others on here over the years say the same thing).

In that sense, whilst mob behavour is an important part of the culture of football violence, the figure of 30,000 suggests that all football fans encouraged the violence. It's alarming to know that quite a lot of the Hibs faces were in actual fact Hearts fans or previous members of the CSF, this was they're safety in numbers clause. They make it sound so similar to the buzz of leading at your limit with gear below your feet rather than an exercise in extreme inhumanity but having seen too many damaged human bodies through my work I find that line hard to swallow.