Ultra : the underworld of Italian football / Tobias Jones.
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TextPublication details: London : Head of Zeus, 2020.Description: xxvii, 401 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN: - 9781786697370 (pbk.) :
- 796.3340945 23
- GV943.9.S64
- The Telegraph Sports Awards 2020 Football Book of the Year
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| Non Fiction | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | General | 796.334 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 30499100000030 |
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| 796.33 KEA The second half / | 796.33 MCK Rugby explained / / | 796.33 RYA The little book of rugby facts / | 796.334 Ultra : the underworld of Italian football / | 796.334 Incredible football / | 796.334 Go On, The Girls In Green!: The Rise and Rise of Ireland's Women's National Soccer Team | 796.334 GIF The Kingfisher football encyclopedia |
Originally published: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Italy's ultras are the most organised and violent fans in European football. Many groups have evolved into criminal gangs, involved in ticket-touting, drug-dealing and murder. A cross between the Hells Angels and hooligans, they're often the foot-soldiers of the Mafia and have been instrumental in the rise of the far-right. But the purist ultras say that they are are insurgents fighting against a police state and modern football. Only amongst the ultras, they say, can you find belonging, community and a sacred concept of sport. They champion not just their teams, they say, but their forgotten suburbs and the dispossessed. Through the prism of the ultras Jones crafts a compelling investigation into Italian society and its favourite sport.
The Telegraph Sports Awards 2020 Football Book of the Year
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