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Tracking the Hooligans - The History of Football Violence on the UK Rail Network (Paperback)
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Tracking the Hooligans - The History of Football Violence on the UK Rail Network (Paperback)
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'On an average Saturday, some thirty trains carried police escorts
of between two and eight officers. Officers sometimes reached the
destination with their uniforms soiled with spittle, and other
filth, burnt with cigarette ends, or slashed.' Charting the history
of violent acts committed by football hooligans on the British rail
network and London Underground, numerous retired police officers
offer a frightening, and often humorous, insight into how they
battled 'the English disease'. Recalling incidents of random,
mindless violence, as well as organised acts carried out by some of
the country's top hooligan firms, the authors document the times
where nothing but a truncheon and the power of speech stood between
order and chaos. Exploring a period of fifty years, retired
officers Michael Layton and Alan Pacey pay particular attention to
the turbulent and dangerous times faced by the police in the 1970s
and 1980s, when hooliganism in the United Kingdom was at its peak,
as well as exploring more recent instances of disorder. Tracking
the Hooligans is an essential account of the uglier side of the
beautiful game, and a fitting tribute to those who gave their time,
and sometimes their lives, keeping the public safe.
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