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.