Here you had a young Scouse lad, complaining to a middle-aged Aberdeen steward about his ripped shell-suit bottoms, holding the tear up and demanding to know what he and the club were going to do about it. So, there’s diplomacy, treachery, and friction between rebels with different sets of beliefs on how the rebellion should progress. In the more recent time period, David Drake, for weaving history into his stories and using actual historical events as the seed for new adventures, which is something I try to do myself.

Heading to Glasgow for the Old Firm, Edinburgh to meet Hibs' Capital City Service firm, and Dundee to be left staggered by how close the city's two grounds are, the TV series on Bravo swiftly became a hit. It’s hard to imagine that the American Revolution, for example, could have succeeded without an ocean between it and Britain. In reply to Paul Atkinson: Leicester Uni has sociology dept with a strong interest in football, sports and violence, sports and masculinity. I should also add that I read a lot of non-fiction, mostly history, but some science-related stuff, too.The Far Stars and Blood On The Stars books, for example, are set in the far future, with no real connection to today, but Crimson Worlds and Flames Of Rebellion are all set in the next couple hundred years, and Earth is still the center of humanity. All the films that have tried to recount it seem like balls and the hardman is laughable but I was just a bairn in the 80s and that is where we got our fashion sense from. So, I’ve got my Washington and Franklin types, but also stand ins for Jacobins and would-be Bolshevik dictators.

He still follows the Dons, but Jay, who is divorced, has a nine-year-old son who he would discourage from having anything to do with football violence.Hibs are just a mob who built up their notoriety on numbers, bullies and liberty takers who still claim to this day they are untouchable. Numerous convictions for violence- related offences, has served two prison terms and is banned from every football ground in Britain.

They make it sound so similar to the buzz of leading at your limit with gear below your feet rather than an exercise in extreme inhumanity but having seen too many damaged human bodies through my work I find that line hard to swallow. Where did you get the idea for Rebellion’s Fury and how different is the finished novel from that original concept? I also wanted to hit on some misguided characters, not so much villains as well-meaning people who get carried away or believe the wrong people.

one game when aberdeen won the league in 1984 on a wednesday night, the gorgie lads waited for the asc to come out of the ground and attacked from all angles, forcing us back into our end. By "real" I mean violence that has an intent as opposed to violence that is merely an extraneous expression with no intended outcome. The cops infiltrate all the proper 'firms' and in general prevent most of it from happening simply by standing there. I was dragged up in one of the not so salubrious parts (by no means the worst) and Heart of Midlothian, in fitbaw terms, for what it may be worth, is a lovely fitbaw club.

great book well done to authour very gripping about the life of a football hooligan easy to get to grips with thouraghly enjoyed rhe short book did not glorify the lifestyle very intristing felt as almost there with good stuff enjoyed it alot. Joe Haldeman… The Forever War has had its share of praise for many things, but to me at 14 or 15, it was probably the best example of writing that made you feel like you were there, in the story.Jay Allan describes the life of a hooligan, from the short journey to the Schooner pub before home games to the long distance ferry to Gothenburg for the most famous game in Aberdeen's history. Jay said: "It took them years to get in control of it, that's why the early years were so much fun because they didn't have a clue what we were all about. That said, do you think the Flames Of Rebellion books are similar to the Crimson Worlds ones, and that people who enjoy the latter would like the former as well? A lot of the boys used to writing letters into the Face magazine slagging off the other teams for not being up to speed with the fashion.