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Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual
by Riaz Khan
(Old Dog Books, £9.99)
MANY football hooligan books are little more than bragging that’d be better done with a tattoo, though there are some excellent exceptions. This is one of them.
Leicester hooligan Riaz Khan isn’t what’s perceived to be your typical hooligan. He has a sense of humour and this account is bigger than himself. Many of his mates write chapters and the book is a portrait of the lifestyle of many working-class males in the 1980s, all the more of interest for its honesty and that the story it relates of young Asians is one neither the Football Lads Alliance nor Unite Against Fascism tells.
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