"Among the Thugs" Quotes
A journalist immerses himself in the violent world of English football hooliganism.
nonfiction | 320 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I have seen the future. It is murder.
You could die in a football crowd. You could die on a train.
The truth is that to be in a crowd in which there is serious danger is to feel a kind of exhilaration, a thrill that approaches joy.
In the end, the most striking thing about the events of that day was that it was so much fun.
There was a pleasure in their violence, a sense of freedom.
The football crowd is the most spontaneous, the most genuine, the most complete moment of your life.
The crowd was in a frenzy. It was like a drug.
There is nothing like a football crowd. It is larger than life.
It was exhilarating. It was a kind of madness.
I felt like I was in a war zone.





