Zulus : The Story of the Zulu Warriors Football Firm

by Caroline Gall

The Zulu Army of Birimigham City occupies a unique place in the annals of terrace Britain's biggest multi-racial football firm. BBC Journalist Caroline Gall was granted unprecedented access to the gang and spent a year interviewing Zulu leaders and footsoldiers. She traces how they emerged from a shadowy group called the Apex on the St Andrew's terraces to become one of the "top five" mobs in the country, uncovers their role in some of the worst football-related riots of modern times and looks in-depth at Operation Red Card, the successful police operation against them. Gall also traces the emergence of offshoot gangs such as the Junior Business Boys and chronicles some of their major confrontations, culminating in the infamous Battle Of Rocky Lane. "At last, a book that deals with football hooligan culture without tabloid sensationalism." KNAVE

307 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 26, 2011

Reviews

[Mac · Rating 3 out of 5]

Certainly not bad but also it's real hard to ever give these kind of books more than a 3*. More of the same - promises to be a different kind of hoolibook, then has all the trappings: the repetitiveness, the weird jumps in time, the bizarre formatting, the same cliches. I enjoy these as a kind of mindless read, either after something exhausting or something terrible, and this fit the bill. That being said, I'm never going to come away from one raving from the rooftops. It's fine. You like these kinds of books? It's fine.