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Original Title:	Among the Thugs
ISBN:	0679745351 (ISBN13: 9780679745358)
Edition Language:	English

Among the Thugs Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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Title	:	Among the Thugs
Author	:	Bill Buford
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1993 by Vintage (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Sports. Soccer. Football. History. Sociology

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They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.

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This is such a great book- the fruits of years of ethnographic research. Every few years, an incident happens in English football which makes people question the culture- is it racist, violent etc. This book describes a time that was on a whole different order of magnitude. The level of tribalism, and the thirst for violence was something largely forgotten or never even known of by most of us in the modern day. One of the great pieces of sociological research in recent decades, certainly one of

I enjoyed this book because I am a fan of soccer, and learning about the culture of the English Soccer league was very interesting. This book was based in the 1980's to the 1990's, and the atmosphere during the games were very violent. Buford is an american, so he wasn't a hug football fan. This lead him to learn all he could about the players and fans. I recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of Soccer.

Wow this book blew me away. Jumps wildly between hilarious and terrifyingly dark. It was about 80s English football hooliganism but in my opinion could have easily been about current American political violence.Really it was about crowd violence and what draws people to it. Bill Buford makes it clear you'd be foolish to typecast the kind of person to get involved. I enjoyed immensely Bill Buford's abandonment of judgement in the moment. Especially when he meets the extremely violent and racist

An absolutely stunning work of reportage. Buford immerses himself in the scary, stupid, and bewildering world of soccer hooligans - a task that involves attending a National Front (ie. fascist) disco, consuming vast quantities of greasy pub food with warm lager, and rioting. The vividly drawn characters are dysfunctional and often despicable, but Buford is a fair witness, finding things to like about them as well as detest. He's a witty and sharp writer, keeps the investigation moving, and only

I wish I would have read this when I first came across it in 1994, but I am glad to have done it now. Along with the senselessness of the English lad football fan, I found a cogent analysis of the Brexit vote. Published in 1990. How little changes.

Among the Thugs stands next The Hell's Angels as an unflinching look at a violent male subculture, in this case the classic English football hooligan of the 1980s. Buford was an American living in England. What he depicts as an idle curiosity about a strange feature of English culture, much sensationalized by the press, became a multiyear sociological study.It is an undeniable fact that by all conventional measures, attending a football game in England is a terrible way to spend a Saturday

At its finer moments, Among the Thugs conveys a powerful and contagious desire for violence. Maybe this is easier to do than I realizemany Hollywood films fill me with bloodlust and Ive got enough disdain for hooligans to think they deserve one anotherbut Buford walks a fine line. Hes keenly aware that he could write a jaw-breaking work of pure sadistic voyeurism; but he largely refrains from doing so. He dips into the mayhem enough to establish his credibility and by highlighting instances with