Soul Crew: The Inside Story of a Soccer Hooligan Gang

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APA style: How Soul Crew became notorious; CARDIFF CITY FC.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Nov 28 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568

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. The story of a young boy growing up on Barry Island, near Cardiff which was once home to the Butlins holiday camp. Written with humour and an unflinching honesty, this book is a must for anyone interested in hooliganism and its causes and motives. Soul Crew” also reveals for the first time the network of alliances and communications between the leading hooligans around the country: the so-called “Category C” thugs who organise much of the violence. And it tells of their cat-and-mouse relationship with the police spotters who now follow them everywhere From the publishers of the best-selling Guvnors and Blades Business Crew, “Soul Crew” is the best evocation yet of life running with a soccer mob. 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.

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a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568 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. THE Soul Crew was the name first adopted by the travelling Cardiff City hooligan firm in the 1980s.

When I asked him about his response to the shouts of ‘racist’ coming from the ‘anti-fascist’ demonstrators, who had marched down Queen Street to confront a group around a stall set up by the right-wing Heritage Party, he volunteered that ‘we’re a white nationalist group’.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. 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." MLA style: "How Soul Crew became notorious; CARDIFF CITY FC.." The Free Library. 2008 MGN Ltd. 28 Nov. 2023 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568 Marsh 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.” 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.