Red Army General: Leading Britain's Biggest Hooligan Firm [FIRST EDITION

O'Neill, Tony

Published by Milo Books Ltd., Preston, UK, 2004

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Fine unread condition red boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Prologue. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "Manchester United's Red Army was the biggest, most notoroiuos hooligan following British football has evern seen. Tens of thousands strong, this huge tribe of disaffected youths from all over the country laid siege to town centres and soccer grounds and became a byword for terrace infamy. Tony O'Neill was there from the beginning, and became one of its most prominent and active faces. He was barely in his teens when, in the bootboy and Ben Sherman era, he set out from the largest council estate in Europe to follow the Red Devils -- and left mayhem and banner headlines in his wake. By the age of sixteen, his ferocity in street combat and force of personality had made him a leader -- a position he would maintain, uniquely, for the next thrity years. Leading riotous trips in his infamous War Wagon -- a converted bus -- he became so renowned that he was invited to a sit-down meeting with then-Sports Minister Denis Howell to discuss ways to combat the rampant hooligan problem. After serving a jail term at the end of the Seventies, O'Neill emerged to face the new 'casual' mobs. He quickly reasserted his control over United's firm and led them against an even tougher deneration of opponents: the West Ham I.C.F, the Chelsea Headhunters, the Leeds Service Drew and the scally armies of Liverpool and Everton. He was so successful that police intelligence files labelled him the 'prime mover' of United's firm and he became the main target of a huge undercover investigation. Red Army General is the most detailed, most authoritative account ever written of the wild years when hooliganism reached its peak." -- from the inner front jacket flap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Army General: Leading Britain's Biggest Hooligan Firm [FIRST EDITION
• Publisher: Milo Books Ltd., Preston, UK
• Publication Date: 2004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine