Stags Hooligans in Print

Last updated : 14 June 2006 By Editor
CHAD (Wednesday 14th June 2006)

A DISTURBING new book which charts the violent history of a group of Mansfield Town football hooligans is to be released next week.

Hooligans Volume Two - which has been written by Nick Lowles and Andy Nicholls - highlights the shocking behaviour of the notorious Mansfield Shady Express and the Psycho Express gangs, as well as thugs from other clubs ranging from Manchester United to Wolves........

Among the shokcing incidents detailed are pitched battles inside Field Mill and in Mansfield Town Centre between local hooligans and their Hull City counterparts during the 1975 season, and violent brawls involving Stoke City fans in the Four Seasons Centre in August 1977.

The book also focuses on a string of ugly scenes during and after games against bitter rivals Chesterfield and Lincoln City throughout tge 1980's as well as street battles against troublemakers from Grimsby, Birmingham City and Burnley.

Published by Milo Books and available priced £14.99, the book can be obtrained by visiting www.milobooks.com

(full article on Page 11 of this weeks CHAD)

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www.milobooks.com

By the bestselling authors of HOOLIGANS Volume 1 comes the second part of the most comprehensive reference guide ever written to a modern cultural phenomenon.

Who are the football hooligan gangs of Britain? How did they form, who are their leaders and why do they fight? These questions and many more are answered in a unique and extensively researched two-part guide to a fascinating but little-understood subject. In an easy to read alphabetical format HOOLIGANS Volume 2 covers all the major firms at every club from M to Z.

Every football team in Britain has at one time or another attracted a hooligan element, from the Guv'nors of Manchester City and the Frontline of Middlesbrough to the Subway Army of Wolverhampton Wanderers and the legendary ICF of West Ham United. Now authors Nick Lowles and Andy Nicholls have interviewed scores of former and current gang members to compile the first ever encyclopedia of all the gangs. Each club has a separate entry listing the names of its gangs, their size, how they formed, their worst fights, bitterest rivals, and how police have attempted to infiltrate and apprehend them.