You're Going Home in a F*****g Ambulance

Hooligan Wars - The Inside Story

Cass Pennant

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789461916
• Year: 2022

In his latest book, bestselling author Cass Pennant takes an engaging and unparalleled look at some of the most volatile and violent scenes of fans following their football clubs to have unfolded over the past five decades, and examines the lengths to which many will go to put one over their local rivals.Here is history that also examines everything from the changing face of football violence, to who gets involved - and why. It looks, too, at how the' firms' operate, both home and away, and at the effects of the football establishment's often counter-productive attempts to contain hooliganism on the psychology of supporters. Has the war on hooliganism been successfully stamped out? Can it ever be won? This remarkable and informative book gives a frank examination of football violence to show how different inter-club and inter-regional rivalries have evolved - and features many first-hand accounts of incidents that make chilling reading. It builds up to provide the most comprehensive look behind the match-day madness and the activities of some of British football's most notorious hooligans, to give answers as to why these games are so important to supporters. The history of such infamous 'firms' as the ICF, the Bushwackers, the Headhunters, and the Red Army has never been fully documented... until now. You're Going Home in a F*cking Ambulance is an eye-opening study of a problem that refuses to go away, by a writer who knows his subject inside-out.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• About the Author
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface: The Way Football has Changed
• Down South, Up North
• Man United Red Army
• Tottenham
• West Ham V Millwall
• Casuals
• It Started in the North?
• What’s This? The Baby Squad
• The Fashion, Look and Labels
• Portsmouth 6.57 Crew
• Gooners
• West Ham U5S
• The Icf on the Koningin Beatrix
• Brighton: Urban Network Firm
• The North was a Hotbed for Trouble
• NME: From The Bender Squad to the Gremlins
• ’Boro Frontline
• Blades Business Crew
• Leeds Service Crew
• Young Munichs
• Liverpool
• Midlands
• Birmingham Zulus
• Aston Villa: C Crew
• Wolves: Yam Yam Army
• Derby Lunatic Fringe
• Forest Executive Crew
• Leicester Baby Squad
• The Way Football Violence has Changed
• Cambridge United: Main Firm
• Mansfield Shady Express
• Luton: Mig Crew
• York Nomad Society
• Blue Order
• Conclusion
• Photos