Reviews

This savagely entertaining book…has the feel of catching shifts in style and attitudes as the shifts occur – whether the styles and attitudes are those of the Casuals, who, armed with increasingly sophisticated clothes and weapons, are now, says Redhead, taking not only “ends” but seats in the stands as well (the seats make useful missiles); or whether the attitudes are those of the managers who used to tell their hard men to go in the first 25 seconds for clever wingers, and who now tell them to go for clever blacks. Redhead has a sharp eye for the realities behind the vapid moralisings of TV pundits, sports pages hacks and Thatcher talkalikes.

Albert Hunt for New Society