In 1982, Bill Buford boarded a train at a station rural Wales. The train was in the hands of a large group of football fans who had started their methodical destruction, the police were unable to prevent it. Before coming to London, the train was out of service. Bill Buford, an American resident in Britain, had never seen a similar behavior among football fans: he had never seen a 'hooligan' English, a "hooligan." Did anyone really realize what had happened every Saturday in every corner of the country? Why had not stopped anyone to write seriously about them?
During the eight years that followed, the years of the riots on ferries crossing the Channel, the brawls in the street, around the soccer fields of the tragedies of Heysel and Hillsborough of the violence in the 1990 World Cup -. Buford was ready to travel with the fans. He traveled with them by Britain, Italy, Turkey, Greece and Germany. Attended meetings of the National Front and witnessed the looting of a pub. Saw stabbings, scenes of extreme violence, in one case, violence could only be stopped with the arrival of an army tank. Met people with nicknames such as Pete Paraffin, Sammy The Heat, Head of Stone ... He made friends with others, many of whom are now in jail, pickpockets, snatchers, robbers, drug smugglers, dealers in counterfeit money, and even met one who bit off a policeman's eye a bite.
During the eight years that followed, the years of the riots on ferries crossing the Channel, the brawls in the street, around the soccer fields of the tragedies of Heysel and Hillsborough of the violence in the 1990 World Cup -. Buford was ready to travel with the fans. He traveled with them by Britain, Italy, Turkey, Greece and Germany. Attended meetings of the National Front and witnessed the looting of a pub. Saw stabbings, scenes of extreme violence, in one case, violence could only be stopped with the arrival of an army tank. Met people with nicknames such as Pete Paraffin, Sammy The Heat, Head of Stone ... He made friends with others, many of whom are now in jail, pickpockets, snatchers, robbers, drug smugglers, dealers in counterfeit money, and even met one who bit off a policeman's eye a bite.
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