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Perry Boys

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This is the definitive book on how the so-called "casual" football hooligan culture evolved in Manchester and Liverpool in the late-70s and early 80s. Perry Boys they were called, and they epitomized verve and snappiness, with wedge haircuts and cashmere ski sweaters. No punches pulled, pure slang, street memories, top continental fashions (plus the Fred Perry polo shirt, hence the "Perry Boys" moniker) and styles, plus the descriptions of the Manchester lads going out and smashing the town up, all delivered in top-class prose. The way the Perry Boys brought Adidas sneakers ("trainers") back from their trips abroad, and wore them as they steamed into their enemies, tells a thousand stories.
A very vivid account of the vigorous way in which these Perry Boy hooligans, wearing the stolen, expensive sportswear, stormed clubland, and brought the acid house and rave phase into being. The drugs, the clubs, the thieving and the craziness, all wrapped up in one volume. This is a poetic and in-depth account of the emergence of an entire way of life, told by someone who knew the score and names the pivotal contributors that made Perry Boys the most feared mob in English soccer. Brilliant. Simply brilliant.