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Synopsis
Steve Fist was the football hooligan's football hooligan and "Bottle" is his story, so it follows that he is now the ex-football hooligan turned writer's ex-football hooligan turned writer. Between the years 1975 and 1991, not one day went by when he didn't beat the absolute living crap out of at least one person for belonging to another team's firm, looking at him, thinking about looking at him, looking at his bird, thinking about looking at his bird, knocking over his pint or breathing. It's a story about the extreme end of extreme violence, but at the same time it's a tale about the worst excesses of brutality, sadism and senseless bloodshed. It's not for the faint-hearted or indeed the illiterate; in fact, it's not for anyone, really. Steve threatened the publishers with a sledgehammer and, hey presto, the book got published, but then that's how Martin Amis started, allegedly, so who knows what it might lead to? The Booker? The Pulitzer? Or maybe even the Nobel Prize for Literature?

One thing is for certain, though: it's a story that every youngster thinking about a career in violence should read or have read to them, because thinking you're hard is one thing, being hard is another, but writing a book about how hard you were - now that's hard.

About the Author
Ivor Baddiel is not hard. He never has been and he never will be. In fact he's soft as the proverbial. But he's been a Chelsea fan all his life, and in his three previous lives, so he knows what's what. He's also written some other books and stuff for TV and that, so he helped Steve out a bit with this one.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: BOTTLE, 5 Feb 2006 By A Customer Absolute pants.....!! I read alot of books about football firms, football violence, biography's of Hard-Men, gangsters etc.... This book is just turd from the start. Someone has an over-active imagination and a serious language problem. There isn't a sentence that doesn't contain a swear word. I'm not offended by it, it just seems as though a child has written it, who's just discovered naughty words. Pure crap.... It says on the back that this book is Fiction/Sports. On the front it says it's a "true story of an ex-football hooligan". Nah... If that's true then he was kicking the crap out of grown men aged 5. Travelling all over the country as one of the "top boys" at 11 years old. If it is a true story then he must be the worlds hardest living being. I'm only up to chapter 5 and I can't be bothered reading any further. What a let down this book is. I wouldn't even give it one star but that is the lowest rating on here.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Yawn, 4 Aug 2006 By  Jimmy White (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews Oh dear. Some sad Oxbridge tosser's idea of taking the piss. You'll find him in the corporate seats eating prawn sarnies and talking shite.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: fantasy island, 25 Mar 2006 By A Customer bought bottle, an haveing just done 6 long one,s for stuff he,s trying to sell to readers believe me if the readers take him serious they all better fly of to fantasy island an be appy together. right from word go you know it won,t get better, hand tattoos at 5yrs etc, total rubbish but it,ll sell.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 5 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews A triumph.. As a professor of literature and sociology, I cannot recommend this wonderful, funny book highly enough. Read more Published 24 months ago by A motorist Genius This is the funniest book I've read, ever. The reviewer who gave it one star is clearly an imbecile who has no idea that it is a parody and an excellent one at that. Read more Published on 8 Feb 2006 Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 5 customer reviews...