This is the extraordinary account of one man’s relationship with his football club. Annis Abraham Jnr. first saw Cardiff City play at their Ninian Park ground in 1973; since then he has visited almost every ground in the Football League to witness his beloved team’s triumphs and tragedies.
This personal memoir of the beautiful game is also a chronicle of its times, the passion of Cardiff’s huge active following often spilling over into punches and kicks. The author gives a full and honest account of his own life as one of the boys, both with the Cardiff fraternity and their notorious ‘firm’, the Soul Crew, who mixed it with every other rival firm back in the days when hooliganism was rife.
Abraham also chronicles how some of the hardcore fans have risen up through the hierarchies – whether muscling their way into big-time crime or the boardroom. Most controversially, the Welsh football fan reveals how he was thrust into the media spotlight by damaging allegations of hooliganism in a Panorama special, in an autobiography that will amuse, amaze and entertain anyone with even a passing interest in Britain’s football culture.
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