I turned on the light in the bathroom and stared at myself in the mirror. After one scrape – and there are many here – he says: “My heart was beating fast and I felt something approaching elation after my escape. Getting caught was almost as big a rush as getting away.” Researching and writing the book was a way to recapture that teenage buzz. He hints that he was something of a scallywag in his youth: “As a teenager I must have been arrested a dozen times. ‘If you fall, you’re dead.’”.Jeremy concluded his video by cheekily adding: “I haven’t even got the internet here.It’s an immersive account, partly because it is clearly a world Montague enjoys. It’s frequently pretty dangerous: “I had been warned that if we ever got into trouble that I should not, under any circumstances, fall over. He smokes weed with a fascist mobster in Rome.

In Indonesia the author is chased by rival ultras armed with machetes. In Albania, a nationalist called Ismail drives with his knees as he loads, cocks and fires a gun. Travelling to 25 countries to compare ultra movements around the world, he takes the reader to warehouses, forests, terraces and underpasses. Montague is a brilliant and daring guide. JEREMYCLARKSON).used by its members from Hadjuk Split: “a term of defiance that roughly means to oppose something no matter the consequences ….Dišpet.He continued: “And do you want to have James May’s death on your conscience? No you don’t.means to be anti-everything.”.“What’s terrible about it is that it’s made us all equal in many ways, and what’s wonderful about is, is that it’s made us all equal in many ways.”.It is typified by the word.dišpet.(Image: INSTAGRAM There’s a bloody-minded contrariness to the ultras. It’s that which unites the movement: there is, Montague writes, a “mistrust in any type of authority”. The “1312” of the title refers to the alphabet code for ACAB, an ubiquitous acronym which stands for “all cops are bastards”. GETTY).Harry Styles.while sitting in a milky bathtub filled with rose petals.It’s that which unites the movement: there is, Montague writes, a “mistrust in any type of authority”.Īmong the Thugs.(Image: INSTAGRAM The hardest edge of football’s soft power – a daring insider’s guide to the violent but complex world of ultra fans ).

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