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Memoirs of an asian football casual Show at Curve

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RGFox

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Just back from watching this. Really enjoyable evening about Riaz Khan the former babysquad member recollecting his life and travails eith LCFC during the 80s.

 

I paid a tenner. Well worth watching.

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Dr The Singh

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3 minutes ago, RGFox said:

Just back from watching this. Really enjoyable evening about Riaz Khan the former babysquad member recollecting his life and travails eith LCFC during the 80s.

 

I paid a tenner. Well worth watching.

Thanks for the review Riaz

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fuchsntf

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A friend gave me the book to read....

some very interesting reading...passed it on

to an BvB  ex-dortmund hooli. Frontline,northside,ran also with The Dresden gangs.

 

He thought it a great read,he himself...and after having kids,he stopped the contact to violence

Also Did the  "against violence "rounds..he wrote a couple of articles,but no books..

He took seriously ill,so no idea of circumstance...or situation.

Funny enough knew him for 12 years,never knew his proper name!!

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purpleronnie

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4 hours ago, yorkie1999 said:

Shirt, jeans, trainers. Still the same today, apart from the hair.

 I think if someone rolled up in shorts with full length socks and a baseball cap I might have to move.

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Drew Peacock

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3 hours ago, purpleronnie said:

 I think if someone rolled up in shorts with full length socks and a baseball cap I might have to move.

Surely the hard lads of the day didn’t have the equivalent of a full kit willy puller in their group did they?

He looks like he’s ready to play against Bjorn Borg later in the day, but in a pair of football socks.

Great auto edit of a word in my post as well. This forum is clever, or every word closely monitored. lol

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9 hours ago, Drew Peacock said:

Surely the hard lads of the day didn’t have the equivalent of a full kit willy puller in their group did they?

He looks like he’s ready to play against Bjorn Borg later in the day, but in a pair of football socks.

Great auto edit of a word in my post as well. This forum is clever, or every word closely monitored. lol

That picture not really a fair example of the clothes worn but does highlight the mixed ethnicity of the people in the b/s.

desertfox2

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In 2 minds but will almost certainly buy the book. One part doesn't wanna support the idea of hooligans. Other part thinks it's a story of redemption and must have been tough being an Asian lad getting into football at that time and he turned his life around big time so fair play. Will read the book. 

los dedos

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5 minutes ago, desertfox2 said:

In 2 minds but will almost certainly buy the book. One part doesn't wanna support the idea of hooligans. Other part thinks it's a story of redemption and must have been tough being an Asian lad getting into football at that time and he turned his life around big time so fair play. Will read the book. 

Buying a book about a certain subject doesn't mean you support it .

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desertfox2

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12 minutes ago, los dedos said:

Buying a book about a certain subject doesn't mean you support it .

Good point. I've read up on Nazi Germany and abhor everything they did.  If nobody reads about it though then no lessons learned that can be passed on thru the generations so that hopefully it never happens again.

 

There's a faithless song that says inaction is a weapon of mass distruction. So true. 

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20 minutes ago, los dedos said:

Buying a book about a certain subject doesn't mean you support it .

Yeah but if he goes and twats a Geordie with it today though...

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The Doctor

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3 hours ago, los dedos said:

Buying a book about a certain subject doesn't mean you support it .

It doesn't but it can indirectly support it through the money going to them - for instance I always pirated Burzums music because Vargs Vilkenes is a god awful person. In this case though the guy isn't an active hooligan, any revenue he gets isn't going to fund more hooliganism etc. so it shouldn't be a problem

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On 27/09/2018 at 23:26, RGFox said:

Just back from watching this. Really enjoyable evening about Riaz Khan the former babysquad member recollecting his life and travails eith LCFC during the 80s.

 

I paid a tenner. Well worth watching.

I was there too! Fkin brilliant. Recommend 

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Wow, I'm quite surprised he can write, after spending so long dragging his knuckles. Sorry, but I'm the same age and there were a hell of a lot of us that regarded the baby squad and other "casuals" as the total scum of the earth that they were.

 

I love his efforts at justifying his and others behaviour.  Do us all a favour and stop hiding behind some sort of sub-culture when all the time you were just pathetic thug.   He claims he wrote it as a response to the EDL's recruitment of "casuals".  Hmmm, he must have missed the NF recruitment campaign in the early 80's.  I'm a bit tired of this "football gangs welcomed all colours and races".  No they didnt, unless all colours and races were happy to join in with the nastiest and vilest of chants and behaviours.

 

Yep, rewrite history if you like, but some of us can remember just how close football came to being driven out.  Moynihan, Evans etc and their ludicrous membership cards.  Without scum like him Heysel wouldn't have happened & Hillsborough wouldn't have had the fences (just to be clear, hooliganism played NO PART in the Hillsborough disaster). 

 

You know that it's these idiots that mean that you can have a beer in your seat at the KP if you are watching the Tigers but cant if you are watching City, dont you?

 

"Look at me, I'm a reformed character".  No, you're a scumbag.  Go away and please dont speak again.

 

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4 hours ago, NotTheMarketLeader said:

What on earth is this picture supposed to represent not the early 80s I remember 

As I said above, it’s from the Guardian interview with Riaz Khan.

 

The picture is titled “I do miss it...Baby Squad members with Riaz Khan second right”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/sep/16/riaz-khan-memoirs-of-an-asian-football-casual-interview-hooliganism-leicester-curve

 

 

(Not) sorry if I’ve misrepresented anyone’s heroes.

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