Cockney Reds: The Story of Manchester United's Southern Army

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I detest hooliganism purely and simply because it invariably results in injury, property damage, fear and even death for people who are either innocent bystanders or sheep caught up in the heat of the moment that these guys incite, usually at some distance by mobile. Whereas footballers they have employers, they have the FA, they have a lot of things where they might feel restricted in terms of being the truest versions of themselves. My idea of success for it is just more brands coming on, different corners of the industry, different partners of the industry and just adding to the starting eleven that we got. for what its worth would you still be saying this "bucket head" is a good lad if you were a city fan and you happened to bump into this guy and ask him for a ticket.

The Cockney Reds emerged from London and the home counties to follow the biggest football club in Britain and left chaos in their wake. how can someone be a good person if they pick and choose whos worthy of being treated with respect over something as stupid as wearing the wrong colour football top. I grew out of it though and it's rather sad to see these ageing football hooligans who continue to drag the sport through the mud and are even paid ludicrous sums for their glorified memoirs, their actions both past and present have done a great disservice to English football and the mindless imitators they have spawned both at home and throughout Europe continue it. I'd seen United in London several times (usually beaten) before my first visit to Old Trafford for a 3-0 win over West Ham.

No one really deserves to be shot, but their are more people in the world suffering that deserve my pity rather than clowns like this fella. To be honest, you're just embarassing yourself here - I mean, while we may have different views on this thread, people like SR and GS are at least genuine, local fans, who have a feeling for what they're talking about because it's their real lives.

I just think it’s abit pointless if you’re from the other side of the country to travel all the way. They imagine themselves in some kind of hard core of "real" fans becausee they have bought a ticket from, or a pint for someone who scrapped his way though a season. I said before two of my brothers were cockney reds, well one year early eighties Spurs were away to Man Utd, we arrange to stay with some man Utd lads and head up Friday night.Raised in South London, he rode with a violent biker gang before the soccer terraces took over his life. Tony O'Neill, 46, who wrote a book boasting about his 30 years as a football hooligan, was shot in the stomach in the Sedge Lynn pub in Chorlton, on Saturday night. Yes, cockney rhyming slang is a foreign language to most people, so I thought I'd let you in on the secret and help non-cockneys translate some of our favourite London sayings.

Stormzy: I just hope to inspire change, which sometimes sounds like such a worldwide, such a massive ambition and sometimes it sounds unrealistic.

Following Best, Law and Charlton felt like following football itself, a glorious game of excitement, glamour and unpredictability, where being present for the drama seemed just as important as the result. Even my nephew supports Man City, growing up I just saw Man Utd winning all the time and I said I want a piece of that. Opposing violence at football is some namby-pamby TV inspired bollocks for plastic fans, it's for people who actually go to the match, and want to do so without fear of injury. Goons, Chavs, Dippers, Everton, Yanited, Citeh, Spam, Derby might have made for even better reading. Having been reminded that real Mancunians hate our guts and with us playing Arsenal I felt it was only right that I saluted the cockney reds who have played a part in our club’s history.