Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan

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Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan

Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan

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Rebellion’s Fury answers that question with a resounding “no,” as the Earth government sends a massive reprisal force to crush the rebels and bring the planet back into line. Allan, 34, tell of his fours years as a member of the notoriously violent Aberdeen Casuals football gang during the early 1980s and his three months in jail for attacking fellow hooligans. I suspect in a different age many of these guys could have been decorated at Arnheim or have stood solid in the front of a square as a squadron of cuirassiers thundered towards them. The figurational approach to football (soccer) hooliganism does not constitute a "super theory" that explains everything about the phenomenon; it is offered only as a beginning on which to build. After getting out of jail, he quit Scotland to work in Austria, then ran a club in Tenerife for five years.

I tend to be someone who appreciates freedom and feels like we’re moving rapidly in the direction of losing what we have left. But one, which I think is trying to ask how a lion and a human, with our unique frames of reference and experiences, so far removed from each other, could ever find a middle ground? Well, apart from my deeply held belief that people should do what they want and not worry so much about what others think, I understand the reason people want to wait, but from my point of view, if it’s a series I like, I’ll read it as it comes out. A bit of a laugh innit" doesn't quite cut the mustard when a supporter who just went along to see his team play spends the night in casualty or on a mortuary slab.I also remember that fights definitely, definitely looked like the lads involved were all trained martial artists, rather than some young lads swinging the odd kick or punch at each other while shouting, "Cam On! So, in that spirit, here’s one of mine which, with the current coming together of disparate cultures at the World Cup seems rather apt.

There are plenty rough areas in Edinburgh that are full of bams, Edinburgh just does a better job of hiding them than other cities. I've met a number of the original lads on Pre season tours, European tours etc, the game is over for them and has been for years but they still follow the club, could never understand why their loyalty was always questioned. All the films that have tried to recount it seem like balls and the hardman is laughable but I was just a bairn in the 80s and that is where we got our fashion sense from. There is a greater purpose behind this rather trivial-seeming post which describes, on the surface, just a very minor incident from a Dons match.Seems that he has written another book but this time nothing to do with the ASC other than there seems to be fighting involved.



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