ABSTRACT
This chapter presents unedited interview transcripts from the 'hit and tell' research project, which interviewed myriad authors and publishers of the football hooligan memoirs and archived the entire 108 book collection published in various forms over a quarter of a century. In a research archive collected over a number of years for the 'hit and tell' project, there are now 108 memoirs stored. International academic research in sub-disciplines such as physical cultural studies, critical criminology and subcultural studies can learn a good deal from these varied texts, but they come with a large health warning about accuracy, truth and memory. The book's subtitle is 'Manchester united in the 1970s' and there is no distinction made between the team and those fans, in and out of the hardcore, who ran with 'red army'. It is, however, frequently about what goes on in the lower leagues rather than the English premier league, the main focus of global television rights.
