The Undesirables - The Inside Story of the Inter City Jibbers

by Colin Blaney

THE INTER CITY JIBBERS. WHERE UNITED WENT, THEY FOLLOWED. MAYHEM WAS NEVER FAR BEHIND.

The Inter City Jibbers were the most notorious Manchester United hooligan crew of the last thirty years, and Colin ‘Beaner’ Blaney was up to his neck in it. His years as an ICJ and Wide Awake Firm (WAF) footsoldier saw him blacklisted as an ‘Undesirable’ by Interpol for smuggling Ecstasy, tearing through gangland warfare with rival crooks, and carrying out daring jewellery thefts as far afield as Taiwan and South Korea.

Spurred on by the overwhelming acclaim for his first book, Grafters, Blaney’s latest account includes stories originally deemed too risky to tell. This shocking, searingly honest new work from the core of the Inter City Jibbers tells of four attempted jailbreaks, and describes members of the ICJ’s experiences in numerous hellish overseas jails. These include the gang rape of one WAF member in a Pakistani prison, a brutal time spent in a county lock-up in Virginia and a stint in a Yakuza-filled Japanese jail, as well as run-ins with gun-wielding foreign thugs. Above all, this is a chronicle of twenty-five years of life as an Undesirable, stealing anything that wasn’t nailed down.

316 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2014

Reviews

[Jody Nicholson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not what I was expecting. I wanted to read a book about football hooliganism not about one man's gloating about being a thief. Pretty dull all in all.

[David Hull · Rating 1 out of 5]

A deplorable book, written by a moronic individual who self-admittedly has spent his entire life contributing nothing positive to society, while at the same time foisting misery, harm, pain and hardship on others by his low-class criminal and violent past. His egotistical reflections are grandiose and pathetic at the same time. Thank goodness someone loaned the book to me; I would hate to think that, in even the smallest way, I would have contributed financially to his existence by actually buying his book.