Among the Thugs by Bill Bufford is a late 20th century book that portrays the subculture of the soccer hooligans during the 1980’s in the cities of Britain. Bill Buford follows a group of soccer fans that are so fanatical that they are deemed hooligans. He follows them as they travel around the world to follow their team, Manchester United. He observes their crimes as well as partakes in their horrendous acts and discovers himself seduced to passionate violence and spellbound by crowd violence. However, in the end, he comes to appreciates the fact that the youths are simply members of the working class that has always existed and has been bored to death with its monotonous undertones, and that their violence is extreme only because they have
