Terrace Legends - The Most Terrifying And Frightening Book Ever Written About Soccer Violence. Cass Pennant
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Dubbed ‘the General’ by the press, he was 50 years old when he was caught up in the infamous cross-channel ferry battle between supporters of West Ham and Manchester United. He would be a prime candidate for this book, unfortunately he has passed away and will be sorely missed by Hammers fans who knew him as good old Joe Harris.
Three other prime candidates are legendary amongst football fans: Chelsea Shed legend Mick Greenaway, Sheffield United main man Lister Divers and Arsenal’s Johnny Hoy. Terrace Legends. R.I.P.
Cass
To Susan – wife of Dave Kinchett (Potters Bar Dave) – who has sadly lost her three-year battle with cancer. She was as tough and hard a fighter as any in this book and will be sadly missed, all our thoughts are with Dave and their children, Daniel and Harry. God bless you, Sue – a light has gone out in our lives. You will be missed by all.
Martin
CONTENTS
Title Page
Epigraph
Acknowledgements
Introduction
BILL GARDNER West Ham United
FRANK HARPER Millwall
STEVE, ‘HICKEY’ HICKMOTT Chelsea
ANDY NICHOLLS Everton
STEVE COWENS Sheffield United
JERREL Feyenoord
DANNY Feyenoord
DIRK Fortuna Dusseldorf
MARK ‘JASPER’ CHESTER Stoke City
RICHARD GREY Derby County
GILROY ‘GILLY’ SHAW Wolverhampton Wanderers
JOHN WESTWOOD Portsmouth
TREVOR ‘T’ TANNER Tottenham Hotspur
ANGUS NUTT Bristol City
ANDY ‘THE BEAR’ PHILLIPS Bristol Rovers
MAC Cardiff City
NEIL Wrexham
MR B Barnsley
LEE ‘OATHEAD’ OWENS Middlesbrough
DAVID ‘SKEENY’ SKEEN Nottingham Forest
GARY JOHNSON Wolverhampton Wanderers
STEVE ‘WING NUT’ LYONS Charlton Athletic
GINGER HOWARD Portsmouth
TERRY ‘TESS’ MANN Newcastle United
FRANK WHEATLEY Sunderland A.F.C.
ALAN ‘MONTY’ MONTGOMERY Newcastle United
GARY ‘SUNDERLAND A.F.C.’ LAMB Sunderland A.F.C.
PAT ‘FAT PAT’ DOLAN Chelsea
IRVINE WELSH Hibernian
Conclusion
Copyright
CASS
The production of this book is down to various people who will know who they are as they helped in the tracking down and introduction of many of the respected characters we’ve featured here. Our appreciation of help given also goes to those who for various reasons we were unable to feature. We also gratefully acknowledge the respect and hospitality shown by the one-time rival firms and their friends that we have met throughout the many interviews we conducted in various corners of the earth including Leeds, which may be another story, another chapter someday. And hey chaps that play-off weekend in Bristol involving three chapters could have been another storm but we rode that one out.
Moving closer to home it wouldn’t be right not to say a special thanks to Wendy Sanford, Julia Rowley, Mick Dandy, Shaun Colling, all at Blake Publishing and finally my family, Elaine, Marcus and Georgina plus my close friends and sponsors that support whatever I do.
MARTIN
Martin