Red Army General

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'BRITÁIN'S WORST SOCCER YOB' the sun Manchester United's Red Army was the most notorious hooligan following British football has ever seen. Tens of thousands strong, this huge tribe of disaffected youths laid siege to town centres and soccer grounds and became a byword for terrace infamy. Tony O'Neill was there from the beginning, and became its most prominent face. : f v • . . i He was barely in his teens when he set out in his Doc Martens from the largest council estate in Europe to follow the Red Devils. By the age of sixteen, his ferocity in street combat and his force of personality had made him leader, a rposition he would maintain for the next thirty years. Organising riotous trips in his infamous War Wagon, he became so renowned that he was invited to a sit-down meeting with the Government to discuss the rampant hooligan problem. After a jail term, O'Neill emerged to face the new 'casual' mobs of the 1980s. He reasserted his control and led his followers against an even... Tovább

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'BRITÁIN'S WORST SOCCER YOB' the sun Manchester United's Red Army was the most notorious hooligan following British football has ever seen. Tens of thousands strong, this huge tribe of disaffected youths laid siege to town centres and soccer grounds and became a byword for terrace infamy. Tony O'Neill was there from the beginning, and became its most prominent face. : f v • . . i He was barely in his teens when he set out in his Doc Martens from the largest council estate in Europe to follow the Red Devils. By the age of sixteen, his ferocity in street combat and his force of personality had made him leader, a rposition he would maintain for the next thirty years. Organising riotous trips in his infamous War Wagon, he became so renowned that he was invited to a sit-down meeting with the Government to discuss the rampant hooligan problem. After a jail term, O'Neill emerged to face the new 'casual' mobs of the 1980s. He reasserted his control and led his followers against an even tougher generation of opponents: the West Ham ICF, the Ghelsea Headhunters, the Leeds Service Crew and the scally armies of Merseyside. Police intelligence files labelled him the 'prime mover' of United's firm and he became the main target of a huge undercover investigation. Red Army General is the most authoritative account ever written of the wild years when hooliganism reached its peak. Vissza