Soul Crew: The Inside Story of a Soccer Hooligan Gang

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The story of a young boy growing up on Barry Island, near Cardiff which was once home to the Butlins holiday camp. In response to the proposed film, the Cardiff City Supporters Club issued a statement in January 2008 that said: "Hooliganism is being glorified by the media yet again and we're not pleased. There is no organised trouble at Cardiff - nothing goes on."

The book explains how Cardiff fans tried to work with the Authorities,with some being helpful, while others continued to treat Cardiff fans like Scum,so it failed after 5 years of trying. I will also show how the hatred has never gone away in local Derbies.but at the same time how times have dramatically changed. However, speak to researchers from HOPE not hate - an anti-fascist group - and they will give you a different answer.Eight members were jailed in September 2002 for their part in violence which erupted outside Ninian Park after a crucial play-off defeat against Stoke City. Written with humour and an unflinching honesty, this book is a must for anyone interested in hooliganism and its causes and motives. In the end, Patriotic Alternative’s presence in the town was significantly smaller than perhaps they – or the ‘anti-fascist’ campaigners who called a counter-demonstration – expected, although an estimated 2,000 people of all stripes attended the main march. Why, someone from Oxford might ask, was a ‘white nationalist’ from south Wales in Oxford to protest against traffic calming measures? One English football hooligan gang has made the headlines more than any other over the past decade: the Cardiff Soul Crew. Formed in the early Eighties, it took its name from its followers love of soul music and brought together disparate mobs from the Welsh capital city and from the surrounding valleys and industrial towns. And it has left mayhem in its wake.

THE Soul Crew was the name first adopted by the travelling Cardiff City hooligan firm in the 1980s. a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568Marsh claimed of the supposed plan: “Zone one, zone two, zone three. And you’re not allowed to drive from one zone to another and they call it Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.” The only person to spend any great length of time in a police cell following Saturday’s protests was a 25-year-old woman who was part of the anti-fascist demonstration. This book is not just your normal Lads/Hooligan book, its a book which has given the likes of Leeds,Man Utd, Plymouth, Barnsley,WBA,Bristol City,Millwall,Birmingham, Chelsea and others a chance to write about their experieces against The Soul Crew and Cardiff’s Lads, its their accounts whether Cardiff like it or not. Also their are 4 major stories from an ex News of The World reporter,to the head of the Valley Rams,to a very well known lad who really got caught up in the fighting, wether he liked it or not and an ex Director of Cardiff who was on the fringes of the fighting.