March of the Hooligans - Oct 16

what games have you been to in the US, Mr. Brimson?

 

If it does pose any threat just get the police to crack there heads so the barbarians can piss off away from the game and fight amongst themselves in their pathetic machismo battles. Worked for us.

 

green street hooligans is so fake it has almost nothing to do with hooliganism
I hope USA gets good hooligans too.

 

What's in it for us?

 

which teams? thanks.

 

I think there's a whole bunch of books I could write.

a cookbook ("put hot dogs in boiling water") a gardening book ("the implement pictured is called a shovel") maybe a couple of pharmacology books. thanks.

 

Who has been asking about this book here in the US?

Can you make any money by being a Hooligan outside of writting book about it.

Because if not what's the point?

So you were a holligan can you get women because they want to be around a hooligan.

Did you deal drugs as a holligan for money, kill anybody as a holligan for money. How about takeover businesses in your area and becomming their partners whether they want a partner or not. Did they pay you protection money so they would not have any accidents?

That is what some gangs do. It sounds like Holligans is a gang to us Americans.

 

How many MLS games?

There really is no hooligan culture in the USA. If you postulate otherwise in your book, you're making stuff up.

 

Knowing this, this author would be representing that good ole London sensationalism quite well.

 

I will say this again. Can you make money from being a hooligan outside of writitng a book.

 

If you're question is to whether a hoolgian can make money besides writing a book, than the answer is a big yes. Hooligans (Barra's, Ultra's, etc ....) operate different in each country. I can tell you that the barra of River Plate of Argentina is in a ferocious internal war to see who end up controlling about $200k per month. How? They are given a set amount of tickets which they sell at profit. They control the parking concessions at the outside of the stadium and take in that money. Vendors and merchants usually have to pay them a commission or protection fee if they want to operate. It is even a hard rumor that that the barra itself was to get a percentage of the transfer fee of River Plate's goalie Carrizo to Lazio.

Mr. Brimson is right in that the "hooligan" (there are different terms depending on which country you come from which can lead to subtle differences in how people understand the term) is a gang and even a mafia.

Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, regular fans knowingly or unknowingly are affected by it ...

 

well now we need to read the book to find out.

could you email it to me?

 

No.

Not in England anyway. It's just people fighting. Hooligans don't have control over anything.

(Here) it's nothing like gang culture.

And you'd never be able to make money out of books if you stuck to the truth either.

The problem is that the perception, not helped by hooligan books etc, is a million miles from reality. If you read the books you'll believe hooligans are bordering on noble, fighting a good fight in honour of their club and town, with a kind of queensbury rules meaning they only fight their own kind. You'd also believe trouble is common.

The truth is rather more mundane and tends to just involve groups of dickheads who can't take defeat (or sometimes just someone supporting another club) kicking the crap out of someone who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.