The Soul Crew are well known as Cardiff Citys main hooligan firm and have had several books issued documenting their exploits as follows. Written with humour and an unflinching honesty, this book is a must for anyone interested in hooliganism and its causes and motives.

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." 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.

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. 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 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. a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568 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.

However, speak to researchers from HOPE not hate - an anti-fascist group - and they will give you a different answer. Eight members were jailed in September 2002 for their part in violence which erupted outside Ninian Park after a crucial play-off defeat against Stoke City. Why, someone from Oxford might ask, was a ‘white nationalist’ from south Wales in Oxford to protest against traffic calming measures?This book is not just your normal Lads/Hooligan book, its a book which has given the likes of Leeds,Man Utd, Plymouth, Barnsley,WBA,Bristol City,Millwall,Birmingham, Chelsea and others a chance to write about their experieces against The Soul Crew and Cardiff’s Lads, its their accounts whether Cardiff like it or not. Also their are 4 major stories from an ex News of The World reporter,to the head of the Valley Rams,to a very well known lad who really got caught up in the fighting, wether he liked it or not and an ex Director of Cardiff who was on the fringes of the fighting. The story of a young boy growing up on Barry Island, near Cardiff which was once home to the Butlins holiday camp.

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. 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’. 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. MLA style: "How Soul Crew became notorious; CARDIFF CITY FC.." The Free Library. 2008 MGN Ltd. 28 Nov. 2023 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+Soul+Crew+became+notorious%3b+CARDIFF+CITY+FC.-a0179859568APA 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