Dougie Brimson: 10 books

Why hooliganism and racism are killing footballThe media and police claim the battle against football hooligans has been all but won. Those who study the culture of football know only too well that behind the squeaky clean corporate image being fed to the public lie some dark and unpalatable truths.Compiled...

Faultless - Football365As EURO 2000 approached, attention once again focused on the potential threat posed by the activities of football hooligans. Not just those from England, but also from Holland, Belgium, Germany,Italy, France and even Turkey.Yet as this last year has proven, whilst the hooligans...

It is the most natural of bodily functions. In some countries it is considered a social faux pas whilst in others it is regarded as a sign of gratitude. For most men, the very act brings a sense of self-worth whilst as a comedy tool it is virtually unrivalled. Yet the majority of women regard it with...

Football Hooliganism, so long regarded as the English Disease, is rife throughout the European game. Yet, while the English scene has been well documented, no one has ever exposed the extent to which the hooligan problem has come to infect the game on the Continent. Until now.

APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEPTIVE - as Paul Jarvis of the National Football Intelligence Unit is only too well aware. He knows that Billy Evans is no ordinary East End lad made good. He's also a thug, a villain and a cop killer. Jarvis just hasn't been able to prove it- Yet.So when Jarvis discovers that Evans...

Hooligan gang leader Billy Evans is above the law. He knows it, and they know it. And when you regard the law as an irrelevance, all kinds of opportunities can open up for you. Especially when you begin to exert your increasingly powerful influence over the back street pubs and clubs of East London....

Rob Cooper, self-confessed football fanatic and editor of the United FC fanzine, Wings Of A Sparrow, returns from watching his team succumb to yet another defeat to discover that not only has he inherited an estate worth in excess of six million pounds, but that it has been left to him by an uncle he...

Football isn't all about players tactics or even satellite telly. It's about a culture. A culture born out of the obsession fanaticism and humour that is football fandom. The ultimate product of that culture is the Geezer. The sexist elitist and abusive yob who clad in his designer clothes...

Bridget Jones's Diary... for lads! For Billy Ellis life is one series of disasters after another. His haemorrhoids have just cost him promotion his new boss is threatening to move in next door and on the very occasions he need a condom he cant even buy a packet without almost getting arrested. As...

One of the great joys of football fandom is that it provides the perfect opportunity to complain and make a point. For example, the referee was biased, the overpaid strikers hopeless, attendance poor, the tea weak and the pies inedible. That, for many fans, is a part of the attraction which football...