Getting a Nasty Shock: The Bradford Ointment Story

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There was a poor lad on Leeds Road who hadn't been to the game and was attacked by about 40 of them "typical Sadford" and he was left on the pavement unconcious. The main questions refer to the numbers of female supporters and their patterns of football consumption. In its heyday the club’s membership read like a who’s who of bigwigs in the city, driven by the wealth of the wool barons and industrialists that during the middle of the 19th century helped make Bradford one of the most prosperous cities in Europe.

I started watching Bradford in 1973 with my brother in law and his pal who was a big city fan, my old fella was a big Leeds fan and never missed a match, the first game I went to was Arsenal away game in the fa cup, City lost 2 nil, but it was a great day out. At yesterday’s hearing, Leach was sentenced to 21 months for his part in the violence, with Clifford and Butterick receiving two-year sentences. But Judge Durham Hall told Wright he was “a committed football hooligan’’ adding: “You clearly couldn’t care less. Along with colleagues, he tried to shut the men out but – after smashing windows and a door – they barged through.The purposes of this study is identifying linguistics form of the Hooligan Firm's name in football club of Barclays Premiere League and i s analyzing how the socio-cultural contexts relates to the Hooligan Firm's name in football club of Barclays Premiere League. You revel in your notoriety even finding some satisfaction in being part of a group childishly named the Ointment – a choice which indicates the intellectual level of this activity. Famous past members include everyone from Sir Titus Salt and the Delius family right through to the late Ken Morrison. There used to be a Leeds Club, a Halifax Club and a Huddersfield Club and they’ve all gone, but we’re still here and we want it to keep going for as long as we can because it’s a very enjoyable meeting place.

can also remember a certain town fan threatening the town fans on leeds road after the game when the city fans were approaching that if they ran he'd give them a 'strict talking to' later on. The perspectives of non-violent football fans have consistently been overlooked in this context, and yet such supporters share many of the same experiences and identifications as hooligans. This will be framed within an examination of the meaning of rivalry, underpinned by a review of key literature on social deconstruction, the meanings gauged from football fan experiences, and how these have been portrayed in the media.

The coverage of these events, which can be traced across a number of different newspapers, was often described in ways that reflected concerns about the organisation and professionalisation of crime. By investigating the cycle’s relationship with genre, exploitation, class, taste, nationality and reception, its prescribed representation of violence, and its distinctive funding model, this paper seeks to demonstrate that, in an era of hybridity and transnationalism, the English Hooligan film exhibits a number of cultural and narrative characteristics that are stubbornly, identifiably, and distinctively British.

Mrs Doherty showed judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC footage taken by the bar’s CCTV of the men running into the bar and smashing chairs. The book reveals how the Ointment emerged from a razor blade wielding gang known as the Town Boys in the 1970 s to become one of the country s most notorious hooligan firms. Prosecutor Patrizia Doherty said they had been among a gang of between 20 and 30 men heading towards the bar, some chanting threats to “kill” the doorman, Samuel MacGregor. Not sure what had happened but they all ended up on our bus to birstall with him telling them 'told you they'd run'.In this computerised age so much is done online so you don’t need to see people in the way you once did. It started out life as the Bradford Union Billiard Club in 1855 when the Crimean War was raging, Lord Palmerston was Prime Minister and the explorer David Livingstone had just discovered Victoria Falls in Africa.