Barmy Army

Based on actual events back in the days when being a football hooligan was relatively harmless fun. This story recalls the tale of a Sheffield United fan and a small group of his friends travelling the country to watch football matches in the late seventies and early eighties. Spending days and nights out in unfamiliar towns, getting into scrapes and getting up to daft tricks.Fighting? Yes there was plenty of fighting, and many of the scraps are recalled here, but there was more to it than that.In what aims to be more than just a catalogue of terrace battles, Alan Allsop gives a personal insight into the characters, the exploits and the laughs enjoyed by just one of the many small gangs that came together on match days to form ‘The Barmy Army’