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The American-born editor of the British literary magazine Granta presents a horrifying, searing account of the young British men who turn soccer matches at home and abroad into battlegrounds and slaughterhouses. Buford, resident in England for the last 15 years, set out to get acquainted with these football supporters--as their fellow Britons call them in more measured moments--to learn what motivates their behavior. He discovered a group of violent, furiously nationalistic, xenophobic and racist young men, many employed in high-paying blue-collar jobs, who actively enjoy destroying property and hurting people, finding "absolute completeness" in the havoc they wreak. He also discerned strong elements of latent homosexuality in this destructive male bonding. Following his subjects from local matches to contests in Italy, Germany and Sardinia, Buford shows that they are the same wherever they go: pillaging soldiers fighting a self-created war.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.

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Buford, a native of the United States, is the editor of the London-based literary magazine Granta . In 1982 he witnessed the takeover of a train, a football special, by English soccer thugs. He reveals how fascination for this distinctly English phenomenon of "soccer hooliganism" led him to follow a group of violent supporters of the Manchester United Red Devils. Buford is accepted into the group and in time seems to develop a sixth sense about impending violence or when things, in English parlance, are "going to go off." Particularly riveting is his account of the aftermath of a match in Turin, Italy, where 200 or so Manchester supporters marched through the ancient streets leaving fire and destruction in their wake. Buford's original theories on football violence, fraught with notions about disenfranchised youth and the frustration of the working class, are forever dashed. He concludes that the English working class is dead, and what remains is a culture so vapid that " . . . it pricks itself so that it has feeling, burns its flesh so that is has smell." Public and academic libraries should have this.
- Mark Annichiarico, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Skeptical, Jui 17 2003
Bill Buford's book makes for an interesting read, no doubt. And kudos go to whoever designed the cover jacket. That picture has no doubt sold thousands of additional copies over the years.

But I will admit to reading these tales with a healthy bit of skepticism. An American-born and bred editor of a sober literary journal gaining access to the very heart of these groups? It stretches the imagination.

I have to take Buford at his word, but I read the book with a very arched eyebrow. Especially the parts where he gets carried away by the goings-on and partakes in some violence himself. I laughed at that point; surely, not the reaction the author intended.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 An entertaining, close-up view at football hooligans, Janv. 9 2002
Par Andrew Suber (Terlingua, TX United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Bill Buford slowly worked his way into a loose club of football hooligans. He witnessed, firsthand, football riots at away games and the daily lives of his subjects-- Britain's disaffected and alienated working class.

This book is remarkable document. It pulls no punches-- I felt a lot of sympathy and kinship with many of the hooligans. They are simply people who are bored by all the trivial entertainment around us and want a more visceral and demanding set of experiences from life.

Their crime? Too much passion. Too much patriotism. Too much of a desire to leave the everyday world of dead-end jobs behind.

This book is much better than something like 'Fight Club'. I recommend it to any amateur anthropologist interested in the modern human condition.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 Great work of fiction, Aoû 24 2001
I think the author here either has some major issues ne needs to deal with . The kind of people described here in the book are about 1 1,000th of how british soccer fans are .This is a very insulting to anyone born in the Uk
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Too dated and unbelievable
Although good in its day, the simple truth is that this book has been overtaken by the explosion of hooligan related books in Britain. Read more
Publié le Jui 19 2001 par Mick Cooke

4.0étoiles sur 5 True to Life
I, like Mr. Buford, lived as a priveleged American in London during the heydey of bootboys and hooligans in the early and mid 70's. Read more
Publié le Avril 5 2001 par Randy Menk

4.0étoiles sur 5 Extreme Football, and I Don't Mean XFL
To say that this work of nonfiction is about football is like saying The Godfather is about the mob. Read more
Publié le Mars 17 2001 par vanishingpoint

5.0étoiles sur 5 Entertaining/fascinating on many different levels
Bill Buford's "Among the Thugs" is one of the most engaging books I've read in a long time. Read more
Publié le Nov. 23 2000 par ragamala78

5.0étoiles sur 5 What Makes Some Peple Tick?
This book is a verbal news photo from the front. I liked it. It adequately explains and describes behaviour and people that can only be classified as perverse. Read more
Publié le Oct. 7 2000 par Alfred L. Hathcock

4.0étoiles sur 5 Oh, come on!
Among the Thugs is highly entertaining: it's Michael Herr meets Bill Bryson--a hybrid that has produced a documentary of the British hooligan phenomenon that is at once gripping,... Read more
Publié le Sep 5 2000 par Richard Singer

1.0étoiles sur 5 Gullible and sensationalistic
This book is well written, and that is the only positive thing about it. The author suggests that he immersed himself in the life of English hooligans. Read more
Publié le Sep 3 2000 par O. Adang

5.0étoiles sur 5 Compelling, deeply disturbing, thrilling, a voyuer's trip
This book will put you into the shoes and mind of the football thug. The American author of this non-fiction book enters into the fold of British football hooligans, in an attempt... Read more
Publié le Aoû 27 2000 par Paris1929

4.0étoiles sur 5 This story is as ugly as the lad on the cover.
Buford spent several years closely involved with various English football (soccer) hooligans. This is really the story of how his initial interest in crowd behavior developed... Read more
Publié le Aoû 13 2000 par W. Doyle

5.0étoiles sur 5 An honest account
Buford's experiences with football (soccer) hooligans, most of them supporters of Manchester United, is an honest and brutal account of what is out there. Read more
Publié le Juil 14 2000 par Stosh D. Walsh

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