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Villains: The Inside Story of Aston Villa's Hooligan Gangs - Danny Brown

Description: ISBN 1903854598 / Author: Danny Brown / Genre: Sports

Newest Review: ... Accredited to two of the most notorious instigators - Danny Brown and Paul Brittle - the book takes in plenty of other ... more

... contributions from 50 or so gang members that sweeps across a range of organized firms and their most notable accounts of the troubles. Within the encyclopedic accounts of infamous fights and conflicts are chapters and passages devoted to the service station brawl that resulted in football coaches being banned from motorway service stations, detailed reveries of the battles with the hard-nosed Millwall and West Ham gangs of those times and plenty of other first hand memories of fights with fans from Middlesborough to London....more

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Villains: The Inside Story of Aston Villa's Hooligan Gangs - Danny Brown: A History of (Football) Violence (1084 words)
by - written on 22/02/07 (Very useful, 4131 readings)
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I grew up in an era of football violence. Throughout the 70’s and 80’s I saw scenes that I would rather forget. Being abused by a Millwall fan when I was 11, seeing Sheffield United fans running at Villa fans hurling house bricks and Manchester United fans going on the rampage in Aston, targeting policemen rather than opposition fans to mete out their violence are all memories I would rather do without. Whether he knew this is debatable but when my brother gave me the book “Villains: The Inside Story of Aston Villa’s Hooligan Gangs” as a tongue-in-cheek present, he probably didn’t realise that it would rake up bad memories. I certainly recall the reputation of Danny ... Read the complete review