· AMONG THE THUGS. by Bill Buford ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 8, A horrific and almost unbearably up-close look at British football (soccer) fan violence; by the editor of Granta. There's very little football here as Buford follows the ``supporters'' on their Saturday jaunts from Author: Kirkus Reviews. Among the Thugs: the Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence () by American journalist Bill Buford presents and analyzes the dynamics of mobs and mob behavior at sporting events in the United Kingdom. The work helped established Buford as the father of “dirty realism.”. · That is, partially, his comparison between apple riots and orange riots. The thugs, in Buford’s book, are soccer hooligans who self-select for Fight Club style violence with (in the context of the crowd) consenting partners (the hooligans of opposing teams).Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
@bill_buford Funny story, I lent my copy of "Among the Thugs" to a friend at work in the 90s. Bill Buford Ретвитнул(а) Bradbury Kuett. Thank you for the sad news. I visited him 23 years ago and found him so compelling that I returned twice more in the next weeks—always welcoming even if a little. Among the Thugs is a documentation of Bill Buford's experiences with football Hooligans in the United Kingdom. Buford, who lived in the UK at the time, became interested in crowd hooliganism when, on his way home from Cardiff in he boarded a train that was hijacked by supporters. The book "Among the Thugs" from written by William Buford, describes Buford's own experiences with hooliganism. The text is about the British football culture and the hooligan-ism that follows. Throughout the text, we follow the American Journalist Bill Buford, who is located at a train.
Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson. That is, partially, his comparison between apple riots and orange riots. The thugs, in Buford’s book, are soccer hooligans who self-select for Fight Club style violence with (in the context of the crowd) consenting partners (the hooligans of opposing teams). A stunning work of non-fiction, Among the Thugs chronicles Buford's attempts to understand the English phenomenon of soccer hooliganism by immersing himself into its characters, events, and lifestyles. He starts as an outsider, an American living in London for many years without ever attending a soccer game.
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