Originally posted by jd930:
Sounds like an interesting read. Recommend it?
I read it every other year. I started reading it as a soccer book - the author, Bill Buford, who's most recent book Heat is a NYT best seller, follows soocer hooligans around and mingles with them as if he is one of them - but after a while, I discovered that it's a sociology book wrapped in soccer paper.
From his experiences, he writes first and second hand accounts as to the nature and experience of crowd violence. I found it brilliant and would highly recommend it to a thinker.