Tag: Fan culture

• Among the Thugs – Bill Buford

  History & Culture

  Tags: 1980s, Fan culture, Hooliganism

  An American writer embeds with English hooligans in the 1980s; a stark portrait of the era’s darker fan culture that contains graphic violence.

• Two Tribes – Tony Evans

  History & Culture

  Tags: 1980s, Liverpool, Everton, Fan culture, Merseyside, Football history

  Tony Evans on 1980s Merseyside, when Liverpool and Everton dominated English football while the city faced economic decline.

• We Never Win at Home, We Never Win Away: The Inside Story of Manchester City’s Legendary Fans – Don Price

  Clubs & Teams

  Tags: Fan culture, Manchester City

  First-person accounts from City supporters who followed the club home and away from the 1950s on.

• Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby

  Clubs & Teams, History & Culture

  Tags: 1980s, Arsenal, Fan culture

  Nick Hornby’s memoir of a life organised around Arsenal fixtures, the book that showed football writing could be funny, honest and literary.