Just to be snide, petty and an excruciating wank; didn't the title of the book alert you in anyway as to what the content would involve? It's self-admittedly and unabashedly about football violence and why he got involved in the scene in the first place and why to a certain extent he glorifies it. It is not an ardent AFC fan's recollections and enthusings of the glory years. How you can liken what happened on the terraces and away from the grounds to a battle field and war zone where you are fighting evades me. The two are mutually exclusive, and never the twain shall meet. If you had been less churlish and persevered with the book then you'd have discovered the 80scasuals website and forum. There you can vent your spleen. I do not in anyway condone the voilence the casuals meted out. Back in the day I thought they were wanks, especially the under 5's. Some of the main members and heid honchos were OK but there was always a sense that they were spoiling for a stairheid rammy just for the sheer hell of it and always with the odds stacked in their favour - about 3 to 1. Sometimes more. Nowadays I'm a bit of a clothes horse and gazing through the retrospectoscope I, hand on heart, thought that the clobber they wore was indeed stylish (with the exception of Burberry). Now you have mitigation to call me a twat:up: