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I'd be honestly amazed if there was a single middle class Millwall fan in the late 80s, which is specifically what he was talking about. The blokes I watched games with back then were mainly manual labourers or worked on the railway. Today, though, you have to have a bit of wedge to watch...

You perhaps missed the nuance of the no real thing as football violence. In any case I'm paraphrasing from an old Danny Baker article that's never been digitised. What he was getting at is that people seek to blame football when it is violence that is the problem. That young males of a certain...

Firstly it got dragged through the dirt in 1990. Nothing (much) has happened this year. A couple of daft bints on an ambulance and some beer shower injuries but no riots. That *could* change tonight of course but we don't know for sure that it will. But for me the answer is that it isn't really...

I'm sure a few on here will know the lad who was arrested and charged with manslaughter, spent time on remand and then acquitted due to lack of evidence. Just as Brighton itself was rougher in those days with no CCTV so the police had a habit of picking up anyone who happened to be in the area...