The faces of a football hooligan

Nowadays it’s all prawn sandwiches and latte, but there were times when people went to football carrying meathooks… Interview with ‘Peter’, a 17 years old Park Lane boy from a “housing estate in the heart of the East End”.

From the Sunday Times, 21 September 1969.

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PDF link: 1969 sunday times park lane

Here’s another piece from the same issue of the Sunday Times, in which “a group who described themselves as the Millwall skinheads swore that they never went out looking for violence or trouble”…

1969 21 sep ST scapegoat kids.jpg

PDF link: 1969 sep 21 sunday times scapegoat kids

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