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They Think It's All Over? The Slight Return Of Football Hooligan Subcultures

Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, 2007

ONCE AGAIN the book shelves are heaving, a few weeks before a new season, with football hooligan memoirs. One of the best of these 'histories' is Ian Hough's recollections (Hough, 2007) of his time with the (Fred) Perry boys of Manchester and Salford's casual gangs in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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