'The most explosive book about soccer violence ever!' (Sunday Sport)
'Compulsive reading ... riveting stuff' (Inside Sport)
`As an insight into the mind of a hooligan, it probably won't be bettered.' (Manchester Evening News)
'A gripping read.' (BBC Radio Five Live)
For fifteen years, Mickey Francis and his brothers led a succession of violent gangs following one of Britain's biggest clubs, Manchester City. They fought scores of pitched battles with rival 'firms' until their bloody reign was brought to an end by the police Omega Squad in the most successful undercover operation of its kind.
Subsequently banned from every soccer ground in the country, Francis became the first of the hooligan 'top boys' to break silence. His story became an instant best-seller and is now a terrace classic.
Guvnors tells it like it was in the heyday of the hooligan culture.
'Compulsive reading ... riveting stuff' (Inside Sport)
`As an insight into the mind of a hooligan, it probably won't be bettered.' (Manchester Evening News)
'A gripping read.' (BBC Radio Five Live)
For fifteen years, Mickey Francis and his brothers led a succession of violent gangs following one of Britain's biggest clubs, Manchester City. They fought scores of pitched battles with rival 'firms' until their bloody reign was brought to an end by the police Omega Squad in the most successful undercover operation of its kind.
Subsequently banned from every soccer ground in the country, Francis became the first of the hooligan 'top boys' to break silence. His story became an instant best-seller and is now a terrace classic.
Guvnors tells it like it was in the heyday of the hooligan culture.
