Product Description

Portsmouth's 6.57 crew were the most talked about casual football firm of the 1980s and 1990s. This notorious gang took their name from the time of the train they caught to games, following their team around the country with the kind of dedication - and violence - that only a true hoolifan knows. Now, for the first time ever, the amazing story of the firm is revealed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41846 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

About the Author
Cass Pennant is the author of the Sunday Times top ten book Congratulations, You Have Just Met the ICF and best-selling autobiography Cass. His position as head of the notorious West Ham Intercity Firm has led him to become a respected social commentator on football violence, appearing regularly on TV and radio whenever this perennial favourite debate is raised. Cass and collaborator Rob Silvester are the only people in the country who could write this book, respected as they are by the main faces of the 6.57 crew.

Customer Reviews

Poorly written but not without its charm
Unlike another reviewer who has based his comments on the synopsis (a career as a professional criticism surely awaits this individual), I have actually taken the trouble to read this book.
In terms of spelling, grammar, construction and factual accuracy this book is no winner. It's clear Cass Pennant is not a Pompey fan - getting the FA Cup final years wrong and referring to the North Terrace as the "North Bank" are two of the give aways.
If you take the accounts of events with a pinch of salt you have what is basically just another run of the mill hoolie book (we done this and that mob, we never ran from no-one etc) - but with a bit more interest for the average Portsmouth fan.
Some of the accounts of events in this history of PFC fans on the rampage are funny and absorbing and the chapter on the effect of the rave scene on the "firm" is quite illuminating.
I didn't expect much from "Rolling" and to be fair I wasn't disappointed - but its not without its charm and it whiled away a wet summer weekend waiting for the start of the season.

Disappointing
Really not as good as I hoped. it's hard to tell what cass pennent's role is in the book. I get the impresion only members of the 6.57 will undertsand what the hell is going on half the time.

Fantastic
That's right this is a fantastic insight into some of the biggest idiots to have ever come out of England.

I thought the George Best book was bad the way his illness (alcoholism) is compared with cancer, maybe it could have been compared to the cancer known as the 657 crew.

This book does nothing but glorify a bunch of racist idiots who probably still wet the bed.