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An Englishman Abroad: One Football Fan's Story (Paperback)

by Martin Kerr (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Terrace Banter (23 April 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0953592065
  • ISBN-13: 978-0953592067
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,296,552 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An England football fan's harrowing account of being falsely arrested and jailed during the France 1998 World Cup


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The French authorities told you they had arrested a Category C Hooligan.

His face appeared on your TV screen and in your newspapers.

The armchair politicians told you he was a disgrace to his country.

Tony Blair wanted him sacked when he got home.

But Martin Kerr was an innocent man who was Beaten severely in the street by French police officers

Arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time

Charged with trumped up offences he did not commit

Remanded by a kangaroo court that denied him legal representation

Abandoned by his own Government

Convicted without the right to mount a defence

Jailed for 46 days in a prison hellhole that doubled as a Third World ghetto

Denied basic human rights including edible food and clean water

Used as a scapegoat by the French authorities

Vilified by the world's media

Sacked by his employers on his return to England

Pompey fan, Martin Kerr, travelled to see England play in the World Cup at France '98 with his partner and her six year old son. What should have been two weeks of sun, sea and football turned into a living hell when Martin was attacked and arrested by a French police snatch squad before England's opening game. His only "crime" was that he was an England fan. And what happened to Martin could happen to you the next time you follow England overseas. All it takes is for you to be An Englishman Abroad

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5.0 out of 5 stars What can happen if you a English fan aboard, 10 Dec 2008
By Daniel Storey "Book_Worm_Daniel" (Rochester, England) - See all my reviews
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I first read this book a couple of years ago and I still find myself as shocked and angry now as I did when I first read Martin's story.
Martin was a law abiding England fan who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in a foreign country.
Martin Kerr had travelled to France with his family for a two week holiday of sea, sun and most importantly football.
During the trouble in Marseille Martin found helped surrounded by rampaging locals when all of sudden he was hit and beaten from behind by plain clothes policeman.
Martin was then arrested, charged with three offensives he never committed and then locked up for over 7 weeks in a French jail.
On his return home he was classed as a category C Hooligan, sacked from his job and had to fight to regain his reputation.
This book tells of his time in prison with 15 other English fans who had also been locked up for offensives they never committed.
Martin's story will shock and anger you most of time but in other parts it will make you laugh and smile as he tells you about the camaraderie he and the other 15 lads shared together.
The over riding memory this book will leave you with is that the British and French governments have a lot to answer for and should hang their head in shame with the way Martin and the other lads were treated on the streets of Marseille 10 years ago.
A great read worth reading no matter who you support.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for Football fans!, 24 Aug 2001
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I'm not a huge football fan by any means, but the publishers information on this book caught my eye, and I wanted to read a differant viewpoint other then what I have seen in the press and on the news.Martin Kerr's horrific false arrest and imprisionment in France during the 1998 World Cup certainly makes for some eye-opening reading. His riveting account of his actual arrest, trial and the time spent in the grim French prison had me reading late through the night in a sort of spellbound horror. That a man just there to enjoy a game of football with his family could end up convicted of just being" An Englishman Abroad"just beggars belief really.A well written, gripping true story-well worth reading, even if you know nothing about football!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A shocking expose how ordinary England fans are treated, 17 May 2001
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I know what it is like to follow club and country abroad, and expect to be treated poorly, but this honest, harrowing and truly shocking book about an ordinary England fan will make me think twice about going abroad again myself to follow football. Good luck to the author and the book - it should be compulsory reading from those at the FA, the Football Supporters Association and MPs.
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