Anarchy and Away Days

From the smoke-choked terraces of Belgrade to the concrete battlegrounds of Rotterdam, Anarchy and Away Days drags you deep into the brutal underbelly of European football. This is not the sanitised game of today—it’s the 1980s, when every away day could turn into a war zone and loyalty was paid for in blood. Through eyewitness accounts, police archives, and firsthand reportage, the book charts the rise of the hooligan mobs that terrorized Europe—Serbia’s Delije, Italy’s Curva Sud, Holland’s F-Side, Poland’s Sharks, Germany’s Borussenfront, and more. These were the men who lived by firm codes, whose clashes echoed the politics, poverty, and nationalism of a continent on edge. Banned, hunted, mythologised—the hooligans became both villains and folk heroes, their stories told in the tabloids, on celluloid, and now, finally, in full. Part history, part confession, part cultural autopsy—Anarchy and Away Days captures a generation’s rage, its rebellion, and the stadium steps where Europe’s working-class anger found its voice.