Among The Thugs (Paperback)

The definitive guide to hooligan culture - joe.co.uk

Superbly written ... darkly exhilarating ... a sort of rollercoaster chamber of horrors - Guardian

Compelling, intelligent and fully engaged - Martin Amis

[Buford] gatecrashes a social world that most of us have spent some portion of our lives avoiding and brings it to life on the page with a ferocious relish that only someone who was a foreigner to soccer could manage, or stomach - Jonathan Raban

Buford's reportage is vivid and racy, dropping you in the thick of the madness with a Wolfe-like immediacy - Daily Telegraph

The excellence of his writing takes the reader to the centre of the mob... His words have the fragmented accuracy of a hand-held television camera in a war zone - John Stalker, Sunday Times

Possesses something of the quality of A Clockwork Orange - The Times

This is an absorbing read, and another winner from Buford, who writes so very, very well - Buzzfeed

Among the Thugs is, by some distance, the best book ever written about football violence. Intelligent, succinct, and always in the thick of it, it reads as a blood-fuelled ode to English football, and as a primer for what will be when Russia hosts the World Cup. It grabs the readers attention like a headbutt to the cakehole. - Tony Parsons

Sizzling writing to rival the best of white-heat gonzo journalism - New Statesman