Gangsters, Hooligans & Violence

Where the terraces met the underworld: hooligan firms, fighters and the violence between them.

1. The Night the ICF Met an Essex Door Team · Some time in the second half of the 1980s, a group of around thirty young West Ham lads went out in Romford and ended up at Hollywood's, a new and impressive nightclub that had been open only a few years. By the end of t
2. Luton Hooligans v a Violent Biker Club · A horde of big, burly bikers walks into a crowded Luton bar with the Hells Angels rocker worn proudly across their cuts. It is May 1990, the pub is the Blockers Arms, and they are welcoming their German chapter president