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Before trouble broke out at the weekend, forcing the owners and their families to retreat from a furious mob, the club had managed to stop a planned protest march from Upton Park to Stratford. In meetings attended by Karren Brady, the club’s vice-chairman, they negotiated with various supporters’ groups, including one that includes members of the old Inter City Firm, West Ham’s representatives in the hooligan wars of the 1970s and 80s. I was the only girl travelling with them," she says. "I never got into any fights, but they thought it was good to have me around, because I could take pictures of all the fights, how it goes off and what happens. I always thought it was an incredibly ... maybe romantic is not the right word, but there is something missing in the rest of society; a sense of belonging. Bill Buford's "Among The Thugs" was a nonfiction forerunner, coming from the unlikely source of a New Yorker staffer, an American former editor of literary magazine Granta. Buford's book, published in 1990 but begun in 1984, saw him embedded with Manchester United hooligans, members of the far-right National Front and with England fans in Italia '90. Buford wanted to discover why so many young men freely engaged themselves in acts of violence.Alexander fears her intended message may have been lost. "I didn't want to say how nice hooliganism was," she says. "If that was the case I would not have killed the main guy in the end. I wanted to show that it can destroy everything."

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For a while it was intended that Irvine Welsh and his film company, formed with actor Robert Carlyle, would put into production the fan memoir of Cardiff City’s Soul Crew by Jones and Rivers (2002). Robinson T (2007) MIG Crew: The Story of Luton’s MIG Crew As Told From The Sharp End of Football’s Frontline (Hove: Pennant).