ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the development of post-subculture as a concept for understanding recent changes in the nature of football fandom. It contains some insights for the disciplines of cultural studies on the one hand and criminology on the other, and, within these disciplines, the respective sub-disciplines of post-subcultural studies and critical criminology. The presence of writers for the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight in the historical surveys of football hooligan gangs featured in the hooligan genre is significant. As a small, hand-to-mouth operation, Milo gained from moral panic about hooliganism on the one hand and the mixing of popular music and football fan culture on the other. Milo books, along with Pennant, John Blake and Headhunter books, rapidly became part of a 'cult' publishing category - the football hooligan memoir. The excellent work of specific writers, Gary Armstrong and GeoffPearson, for instance, are part of a relatively rare ethnographic tradition on fandom in social science and cultural studies.
