Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan

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It's alarming to know that quite a lot of the Hibs faces were in actual fact Hearts fans or previous members of the CSF, this was they're safety in numbers clause. The influence can still be seen in acts such as two-time Mercury Prize nominee Mike Skinner, who records under the name The Streets. "He's probably the most visible ambassador, " says Thornton. "If you look at what he wears it's not that dissimilar to what kids were wearing in the late 1970s in Liverpool. He might be wearing Reebok instead of Adidas Samba and a Stone Island coat instead of a Peter Storm cagoule but the look's the same." Liam Gallagher of Oasis was an earlier version, though in the mid-1990s, the media had a different label for people who dressed like him: "polo geezer". The terms may change, but society's attitude remains the same. I’ve seen the style Huntly want to play this season and it will suit my game a lot. They like to keep the ball on the floor and use the wingers, get in behind, get bodies in the box and that’s what I’m good at.” Jay confessed to being drawn in by the "excitement" of the violence. He said: "There is the general excitement of any kind of violence. If you get violence in Aussie rules football even a granny will go 'Wow'.

In 1981, Liverpool won their third European Cup Final in five years, beating Real Madrid in Paris. Hooton was at the midweek game and, like thousands of other fans, travelled over on the ferry the weekend before. As well as football, he had training shoes on his mind: a rumour had spread about a shop in Paris called The Adidas Centre which sold trainers unavailable anywhere else. It was the Holy Grail as far as Hooton and hundreds of other Scouse soccer casuals were concerned. They spent all weekend scouring the city looking for it. It was, according to cultural commentator, former NME journalist and Oasis biographer Paolo Hewitt: "One of the biggest workingclass youth cults ever, " but because its home was the football terraces [which at that time were entirely the preserve of the working class] rather than universities or art schools, it went largely unexplored by the media.Fatjim hates it all yet has read all the books, I sense some jealousy. Me and my pastel jumper were there Jim, because of us you can now go to matches without the fear of trouble, no need for thanks, just buy me a beer some time.

After a few incidents at the Southside Snooker Centre, a Hearts v Aberdeen Scottish Cup tie, a few liberty takers from Leith and the reaction from "The Shed" at the emergance of this new brand of fan put the Hearts Casuals into a slight predicament.As with every youth movement before and since, it was the clothes that marked the casuals out. "It wasn't even being covered by the fashion magazines, " says Peter Hooton, the former frontman of indie group The Farm, who was editing an influential football fanzine called The End in Liverpool as the 1980s began. The mother] had her children removed almost certainly based on a sequence of events initiated by what the registrant had said. This was at an ex-parte hearing meaning that [the mother] would not have known or been in a position to have challenged the evidence given by the registrant,” the 2015 panel said.

Went to the Mod disco at night and pulled some wee bird. Top day - and we've got Morton away in the Cup midweek! It added that the social worker did not take opportunities to retract her false statement, and she demonstrated no insight into her actions.

Both the social worker and her employer referred her to the HCPC. She was suspended for 12 months on two occasions, in 2015 and 2016, before a committee took a decision to strike her off last month. Harm So when we were leaving, I went outside and we had a few words. Everything seemed alright, but obviously I didn’t know too much about the Scottish leagues and the standards. In reply to Paul Atkinson: mob dynamics aside I think it is fundamentally wrong to ascribe it all to gang mentality and courage in numbers - the physical courage and indifference to personal risk of injury is a real phenomenon and possessed only by a minority - the available outlets in our society are restricted to joining the forces or getting in to hooliganism. I suspect in a different age many of these guys could have been decorated at Arnheim or have stood solid in the front of a square as a squadron of cuirassiers thundered towards them. I don't admire the violence and, despite having grown up in a very violent town and had my fair share of bovva as a teenager (punk in town full of mods) I cannot now identify at all with the desire or even ability to inflict pain and injury on another human being. Some of these people are intelligent and articulate and would argue that they are particpating in an extreme sport with other willing participants and should be left alone to do so without causing any problems for the rest of society. I haven't sorted out the rights and wrongs of it in my own mind, hence the request for edifying books on the subject

In the 2015 hearing, the HCPC said the social worker’s actions were “deplorable” and had caused “very real harm” to the mother and her family.

He has a Holiday Song Titled, “Christmas Everyday”

Jay closed that chapter of his life by writing a controversial book Bloody Casuals - Diary Of A Football Hooligan.