They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin’ Sammy. They like lager (in huge amounts), the Queen, soccer clubs (specifically Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike includes all of those other known universe, and England’s soccer thugs exhibit it with techniques that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Costs Buford, editor from the renowned journal Granta, enters this alternative society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure using the public imagination of the George Orwell as well as the uncooked personal engagement of the Hunter Thompson.