Cockney Reds: The Story of Manchester United's Southern Army

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He eventually emerged as a leader, working as a bricklayer to fund his campaign around the country, backed by his ‘firm’ of brawlers and boozers.

I would personally wish him a speedy recovery and hope this near miss might cause him to rethink both his actions and his associates.So what you are saying is that panarama has tainted our view of football hooligans and that are all really nice guys fighting for a just cause? All you whiny little pricks who secretly use their parents computers to piss on the real fans should just go to hell.

That’s why I say massive shout out to adidas because as soon as we came forward with the idea they were full steam ahead. COCKNEY REDS is a candid account of a period of terrace history that will never be repeated, and of the camaraderie and chaos of a hooligan gang based on enemy turf. A United fan standing next to me with his eyes bulging and his veins sticking out says to me " I fucking hate cockneys, but your alright" to say it was surreal would be an understatement. I appreciate the therapeutic effects of a good ruck as much as the next bloke and misspent my youth in punk clubs battering the hell out of skinheads while pretending our mindless violence had some sort of deeper political meaning, at least there I could guarantee the people I was hitting were equally up for it, the club owner took money for these organised riots and employed bouncers to keep the fights within an area where his property damage was minimal and noone was likely to raise stakes by pulling out a knife. And then someone from Sky Sports came over – I thought they were telling us to keep the noise down because we were talking a lot – and said, ‘Stormzy, do you want to go on there?

Dude, first off all I've been to Old Trafford more often than an armchair bitch like you will ever be. He's a thug, albeit clever, who made a lot of capital from wimps who like the idea that they're part of a hard movement. Raheem Sterling, I’ve always said that the stick that he used to get from the media, we could smell that a mile off. Again, it's about population, everyone in Manchester could support them and it would still be a relatively small percentage of their overall support.