The story of a young boy growing up on Barry Island, near Cardiff which was once home to the Butlins holiday camp. Chicago style: The Free Library. S.v. How Soul Crew became notorious; CARDIFF CITY FC.." Retrieved Nov 28 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568 Soul Crew” also reveals for the first time the network of alliances and communications between the leading hooligans around the country: the so-called “Category C” thugs who organise much of the violence. And it tells of their cat-and-mouse relationship with the police spotters who now follow them everywhere From the publishers of the best-selling Guvnors and Blades Business Crew, “Soul Crew” is the best evocation yet of life running with a soccer mob. The group have been heavily documented in the past. A book was written about them by Tony Rivers and David Jones, they were subject to a BBC documentary called Hooligans and Irvine Welsh is currently working on a film about them.

In response to the proposed film, the Cardiff City Supporters Club issued a statement in January 2008 that said: "Hooliganism is being glorified by the media yet again and we're not pleased. There is no organised trouble at Cardiff - nothing goes on." In the end, Patriotic Alternative’s presence in the town was significantly smaller than perhaps they – or the ‘anti-fascist’ campaigners who called a counter-demonstration – expected, although an estimated 2,000 people of all stripes attended the main march. The Soul Crew are well known as Cardiff Citys main hooligan firm and have had several books issued documenting their exploits as follows. APA style: How Soul Crew became notorious; CARDIFF CITY FC.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Nov 28 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568

Extremist and former member of footy hooligan group speaks out

The book explains how Cardiff fans tried to work with the Authorities,with some being helpful, while others continued to treat Cardiff fans like Scum,so it failed after 5 years of trying. I will also show how the hatred has never gone away in local Derbies.but at the same time how times have dramatically changed. When I asked him about his response to the shouts of ‘racist’ coming from the ‘anti-fascist’ demonstrators, who had marched down Queen Street to confront a group around a stall set up by the right-wing Heritage Party, he volunteered that ‘we’re a white nationalist group’. a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568

THE Soul Crew was the name first adopted by the travelling Cardiff City hooligan firm in the 1980s. The only person to spend any great length of time in a police cell following Saturday’s protests was a 25-year-old woman who was part of the anti-fascist demonstration. Why, someone from Oxford might ask, was a ‘white nationalist’ from south Wales in Oxford to protest against traffic calming measures? Marsh claimed of the supposed plan: “Zone one, zone two, zone three. And you’re not allowed to drive from one zone to another and they call it Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.” The Cardiff City Soul Crew have been one of the most active football firms in this country for past 4 decades. This brutally, honest and open account is told by the people who were there on the front line and the firms that fought against them.One English football hooligan gang has made the headlines more than any other over the past decade: the Cardiff Soul Crew. Formed in the early Eighties, it took its name from its followers love of soul music and brought together disparate mobs from the Welsh capital city and from the surrounding valleys and industrial towns. And it has left mayhem in its wake.