Watching Chesterfield FC is and never has been easy – even when they do well. But watching them in the 70’s and 80’s was, at times, an absolute nightmare. So much so that occasionally the safest place to be was Hiding With The Hooligans.
This first-hand account transports the reader back to a time where pre-match entertainment was a pint, a pie and a punch up – and if you were lucky a brass band!
There is a historical reality in this book that not even the most skilled sociologist could ever capture, the pleasure is in the detail, and also in the insane. The silliness of bad boy behaviour is perfectly captured (where usually it’s never spotted), as is the swaying of its pendulum between pointlessness and deep meaning.
Hiding With The Hooligans takes the reader on an exhilarating and often hilarious journey of a dedicated fan addicted to the bittersweet experience of watching football during the dark years of football violence. Entertaining and edgy, it is a fascinating and often hilarious tale that will give you a real taste of what it was like to follow a lower league football club. These vivid literary snapshots capture a slice of social history that hasn’t yet been forgotten because no-one bothered to preserve it in the first place.
This first-hand account transports the reader back to a time where pre-match entertainment was a pint, a pie and a punch up – and if you were lucky a brass band!
There is a historical reality in this book that not even the most skilled sociologist could ever capture, the pleasure is in the detail, and also in the insane. The silliness of bad boy behaviour is perfectly captured (where usually it’s never spotted), as is the swaying of its pendulum between pointlessness and deep meaning.
Hiding With The Hooligans takes the reader on an exhilarating and often hilarious journey of a dedicated fan addicted to the bittersweet experience of watching football during the dark years of football violence. Entertaining and edgy, it is a fascinating and often hilarious tale that will give you a real taste of what it was like to follow a lower league football club. These vivid literary snapshots capture a slice of social history that hasn’t yet been forgotten because no-one bothered to preserve it in the first place.
