A while back I read Among the Thugs by Bill Buford (former editor of Granta). It portrays British football "supporters" ("fans") and their alcoholic, racist, violent, mostly despicable behaviors. It is well written reporting from inside the combat zone, sort of like Hunter S. Thompson, only with two lagers and a packet of crisps and no authorial cursing and rambling and hallucinations and psychotic episodes.
Posted by Charles on July 25, 2003 09:59 PM