Soul Crew: The Inside Story of a Soccer Hooligan Gang

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One English football hooligan gang has made the headlines more than any other over the past decade: the Cardiff Soul Crew. Formed in the early Eighties, it took its name from its followers love of soul music and brought together disparate mobs from the Welsh capital city and from the surrounding valleys and industrial towns. And it has left mayhem in its wake. The group have been heavily documented in the past. A book was written about them by Tony Rivers and David Jones, they were subject to a BBC documentary called Hooligans and Irvine Welsh is currently working on a film about them. Soul Crew” also reveals for the first time the network of alliances and communications between the leading hooligans around the country: the so-called “Category C” thugs who organise much of the violence. And it tells of their cat-and-mouse relationship with the police spotters who now follow them everywhere From the publishers of the best-selling Guvnors and Blades Business Crew, “Soul Crew” is the best evocation yet of life running with a soccer mob. The only person to spend any great length of time in a police cell following Saturday’s protests was a 25-year-old woman who was part of the anti-fascist demonstration. APA style: How Soul Crew became notorious; CARDIFF CITY FC.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Nov 28 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568

a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568 The story of a young boy growing up on Barry Island, near Cardiff which was once home to the Butlins holiday camp.This book is not just your normal Lads/Hooligan book, its a book which has given the likes of Leeds,Man Utd, Plymouth, Barnsley,WBA,Bristol City,Millwall,Birmingham, Chelsea and others a chance to write about their experieces against The Soul Crew and Cardiff’s Lads, its their accounts whether Cardiff like it or not. Also their are 4 major stories from an ex News of The World reporter,to the head of the Valley Rams,to a very well known lad who really got caught up in the fighting, wether he liked it or not and an ex Director of Cardiff who was on the fringes of the fighting.

Eight members were jailed in September 2002 for their part in violence which erupted outside Ninian Park after a crucial play-off defeat against Stoke City. Marsh claimed of the supposed plan: “Zone one, zone two, zone three. And you’re not allowed to drive from one zone to another and they call it Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.”The Soul Crew are well known as Cardiff Citys main hooligan firm and have had several books issued documenting their exploits as follows.

MLA style: "How Soul Crew became notorious; CARDIFF CITY FC.." The Free Library. 2008 MGN Ltd. 28 Nov. 2023 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568The book explains how Cardiff fans tried to work with the Authorities,with some being helpful, while others continued to treat Cardiff fans like Scum,so it failed after 5 years of trying. I will also show how the hatred has never gone away in local Derbies.but at the same time how times have dramatically changed. THE Soul Crew was the name first adopted by the travelling Cardiff City hooligan firm in the 1980s. But Vince Alm, head of the Cardiff Supporters' Club, said the group no longer posed a significant risk to matches.