abstract:Among the Thugs: The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence is a 1990 work of journalism by American writer Bill Buford documenting football hooliganism in the United Kingdom.
Thankfully brief at 55 minutes, the play is like a protracted death scene among a group of wild animals, with the strong ones a pair of smartly-dressed, smirking thugs mercilessly circling and taunting the weak until it's time to deliver the inevitable fatal blows.