Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan

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And the oil industry was booming then so people had money and the kids had money from the parents who worked offshore. If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. In a world of such division and intolerance, perhaps this gives us all a glimmer of hope for the future. He will never claim to be a hardman but admit to be more interested in the fashion and the combination of two groups wanting to have a go. Always deemed as cowards by some but were soon stuck for words and tails tucked between the legs if words were exchanged.

The brothers gave up hooliganism after Dougie suffered two broken ribs and Eddy's skull was fractured during a weekend of fighting.

A lot of the boys used to writing letters into the Face magazine slagging off the other teams for not being up to speed with the fashion. And in 2006, their history was revisited when TV star and actor Danny Dyer made the long trip up to the Granite City to see what Scotland's casuals were all about on Real Football Factories. I did this by having some combat veterans who’d settled on Haven after serving in Federal America’s armed forces during a previous war. For them, fighting is a central source of meaning, status or reputation, and pleasurable emotional arousal.

I also wanted to hit on some misguided characters, not so much villains as well-meaning people who get carried away or believe the wrong people. Furthermore, in most societies, members of groups that are lower on the social scale are less likely to be highly individualized and more likely to readily form intense "we-group" bonds and identifications (Elias 1978, 134-148) that involve an equally intense hostility toward "outsiders" (Elias 1994) than is the case among the more powerful, more self-steering, and usually more inhibited groups who stand above them.

The match itself I can barely remember – I’ve just read we were beaten 3-1 with Brian Irvine helping the visitors with an own goal. Jay was a convicted football hooligan, jailed for three months for his part in a failed ambush of Motherwell Casuals.

It recounted how, in the early Eighties, the Aberdeenshire farmer's son moved to the city at 16 and became a founding force in the Aberdeen Casuals.

In reply to Paul Atkinson: Leicester Uni has sociology dept with a strong interest in football, sports and violence, sports and masculinity. Wonder what this is like, seems to be a bit sci-fi, possibly based on too much Xbox time, but could be a fun read or total pish. That effect occurs because of the relative absence in such contexts of "softening" pressure from females and older men. Just moved to Ellon and wondering if anyone knows if there’s any pubs for watching the Rangers games? If they got aggressive we just took them inside and split them up - they were then invariably transformed into the meekest, sweetest lads you could hope to meet.