This chapter seeks to challenge some of the traditional views about football crowds and their behaviour and the best ways to manage them. By investigating the cycle’s relationship with genre, exploitation, class, taste, nationality and reception, its prescribed representation of violence, and its distinctive funding model, this paper seeks to demonstrate that, in an era of hybridity and transnationalism, the English Hooligan film exhibits a number of cultural and narrative characteristics that are stubbornly, identifiably, and distinctively British.

With potential of pulling numbers of 300, it was often cup games against top division opponents where the Ointment found its true level. So that's why Lockwood left a minute after kick-off, he wanted Bove to have his day against his fellow county-men. There used to be a Leeds Club, a Halifax Club and a Huddersfield Club and they’ve all gone, but we’re still here and we want it to keep going for as long as we can because it’s a very enjoyable meeting place. The Ointment, the notorious gang that associated itself with Bradford City, are the latest to release their story. We’ve had eight or nine people join in the last couple of months which is an unusually large number, but we’ve also lost six people who’ve died this year.Know the "mad axeman" really well, went school with the lad that got done for killing the Bradford lad. The first part of the article looks at the extended coverage of what became known as the ‘racecourse wars’, concentrating on three key themes which permeate the accounts of racecourse crime between 1920 and 1925: the organisation of crime, the use of firearms and the mobility of criminals.

The phenomenon continues to occur in modern society, and has produced consequences of varying degrees of severity. But this city has been scarred and its judges will not hesitate, in the face of mob violence, to move swiftly and robustly to punish you and deter others. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. Partridge, of School Lane, Wibsey, and Leach, of Cooper Lane, Bradford, answered “no comment” in interview. The judge said he intended to send out a message to others that the courts would not tolerate such offending.

Other women reacted on men’s domination in the football stadium by founding a women only fan group which allows them to find their own way to be women and fans.