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Guvnors: The Autobiography of a Football Hooligan Gang Leader (Paperback)

by Michael Francis (Author), Peter Walsh (Author)
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  • Paperback: 194 pages
  • Publisher: Milo Books; illustrated edition edition (3 Dec 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 095308471X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0953084715
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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'The most explosive book about soccer violence ... ever!' (Sunday Sport) --SUNDAY SPORT


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As far removed from Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch as it is possible to get.' (The Guardian)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad but I wouldnt go too far., 27 Oct 2007
By Gogol (England) - See all my reviews
  
I guess this book should get a but more praise because it is one of the earlier 'hooligan' books but the simple fact of the matter is if you have read one you have read them all.

Story begins with his childhood, born in rough working class area, dad used to slap him around, mum worked her guts out but both were the salt of the earth. Joined a firm, was a life long fan, police make an operation against the firm, court case goes on, gets sent down, comes out becomes a bouncer yeh you have just about read the same thing with just about every hooligan book around.

Still, this does have some things of interest. Francis is pretty honest with his many encounters with rival firms describing how he and his firm were not only turned over more than once but that on many occasions he had the living daylights kicked out of him. He is honest about his own firms use of knives and how other firms also used them recounting occasions when the City firm have slashed a few people. He is honest about the thieving that went on how they were far from the best dressed people around (in fact being honest enough to say they dressed like scruffs) Which is a damn site more honest than some of the books you will find out there with there obligatory chapter dedicated to nothing more than designer labels and myths about how they were such 'dresses' (Anyone seen the pictures in the Birmingham Zulus book? V-Neck jumpers with black suit jacket, yeh lads you were the height of fashion)

Mickey was a mixed race lad and is not daft enough to think that racism didn't exist on the terraces. He more than once tells us how his firm fought City firms who were NF and some of the racist abuse that the Cool Cats received in Liverpool (From both Liverpool and Everton) Leeds, Millwall and Chelsea and even more so the shock value a mixed race firm received in places like Newcastle and Leeds.

Not a bad read, you will probably get through it in about an hour at best.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Its Cool For Cats............, 19 Dec 2003
As far as football violence goes, and lets face it the vast majority of such epics are tedious, dubious and do little but glorify mass battles in areas where it is likely that women and children can be found, this is about as good as it gets. Make no bones about it, Mr. Francis is an extremely complex and "hard"person. He makes several key statements that sociologists who constantly review the hooligan culture, should take on board such as the fact that he didn't just fight at football, he was prone to violence wherever and whenever. It also shows how difficult it was for him to move into legitimacy because of the reputation he and his associates had acquired not only with the authorities but with others in later life. A key publication in this overflowing and glorified area.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant, 3 May 2000
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This book was excellent, and thats comin from a Manchester United fan. Mickey Francis and his brothers tell the exact story of their years in football violence. He was brought up in one of, if not, the roughest areas in the country and uses this to get his point across. It is a must read book if you are a football fan and has been brilliantly written.
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5.0 out of 5 stars good honest read
Quite simply the best book on the subject of working class lads fighting for their team I've read. And I've read most of them. Read more
Published 21 months ago by woods

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool Cats
I travelled with MCFC in the 70's and 80's and with The Cool Cats a few times. The coaches used to pick up under Piccadilly Station at Store Street and Donald would pull guys off... Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2007 by bluemoonboy

5.0 out of 5 stars the best soccer hooligan book - by the greatest soccer hooligan!
As a football team, MCFC may have been overshadowed regulary by the arguably more famous team they share this city with, but their hooligan gang, the Guvnors, always had masses of... Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2006 by M. Oldham

5.0 out of 5 stars great!
it really tells you a good and truthful story of the hooliganism of football. The bloke doesn't like football though!
Published on 27 Oct 2004 by sammyddd_411

5.0 out of 5 stars A Right F***in good read
Mick and the boys obviously tell it how it is but i must say one thing I certainly wouldn`t like to bump into Mr Francis in a dark alley Micky or his brothers,I find this a... Read more
Published on 11 Nov 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Correct to the point of too much knowledge
MF hits the nail on the head with this account of being in MCFCS "firm".... Have seen the "boys" in action a few times and he told it how it happened... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars Fiction masqeurading as fact!
Mr Francis was no doubt a naughty boy in and around the streets of Moss Side,however when City travelled away (which was very rare in the 70s and 80s) he could easily be sussed in... Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
I particularly like this book. I have only ever read 2 football violence books - this and England my England. Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2000 by neo3@currantbun.com

1.0 out of 5 stars absoulute piffle
what a dreadful book,what a dreadful author. a lot of it is so made up from the man with terribly small mind. Read more
Published on 27 May 2000 by pont@iweb.net.au

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best
This was one of the best books Ihave ever read I thought Micky told of how he and his brothers behaved and fought on the teraces was excellent. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2000

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