The sound and the fury. The white working-class British male football fan has...
Hooligan WarsEdited by Mark Perryman <em>Mainstream Publishing, 192pp, £9.99</em>ISBN 18401842English football is in decline, and has been for nearly a decade. The crowds are now bigger...
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PunkStephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan <em>Cassell, 399pp, £35</em>ISBN 0304359874ThePunk had many forms. For the poser, it was another fashion: being a punk was to belong to an imagined...
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69 Things To Do With A Dead PrincessStewart Home <em>Canongate, 182pp, £9.99</em>ISBN 18419518Over the past ten years, Stewart Home has produced a series of sperm'n'blood classics that have...
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Waiting PeriodHubert Selby Jr <em>Marion Boyars, 198pp, £14.95</em>ISBN 0714530719While Hubert Selby Jr is celebrated as the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, a brilliant novel that damaged...
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Observations on the World CupThe first World Cup I saw was held in Mexico in 1970 - and was played late at night for a small boy, watching the classic team of Pele, Jairzinho and Revelino on TV. It was...
View ArticleThe boys are back in town. John King enjoys a powerful sequel to Trainspotting
PornoIrvine Welsh <em>Jonathan Cape, 484pp, £10 </em>ISBN 022406181XPorno is Irvine Welsh's seventh work of fiction, and the third in a series of long, richly observed novels dealing with...
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At the time of his death last month, Joe Strummer remained one of our most original musicians. JohnIt was Juvenile Jim who introduced me to The Clash. He had bought their first album because it had a...
View ArticleThe pagan god. John King reflects on "a golden age in English football when...
Ossie: king of Stamford BridgePeter Osgood, with Martin King and Martin Knight <em>Mainstream PubWhen England beat West Germany 4-2 in the 1966 World Cup final, the style of play, with its lack...
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John King: The left wing case for leaving the EU
Supporters of the EU sneer “Little Englander” at those with a different opinion, but most of the arguments against membership are left-leaning and liberal.Rain on the people’s parade: “however sweet...
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