Product Description

For twenty years, Andy Nicholls was one of the most active football hooligans in the country and a leading figure among the violent followers of Everton Football Club.

Classified as a Category C thug - the worst kind - he amassed more than twenty arrests for football related offences and is banned from every ground in the UK.

Scally deals head-on with the vicious knife attacks perpetrated by the shadowy County Road Cutters, chronicles the bitter Manchester-Merseyside battles that left scores injured and describes enduring rivalries with the gangs of Aberdeen, Chelsea, Millwall, Middlesbrough and many more.

Scally caused a storm of controversy on first publication and is widely acknowledged as the most revealing, most shocking book ever written about soccer gang culture.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17829 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
'Full of high profile tear-ups with most of the major UK firms.' (Loaded Magazine) --LOADED

Review
'Remarkably candid.' (Penthouse Magazine)

Review
'Stop this thug now!' (Liverpool Echo)

Customer Reviews

A very good read!!.
I've got to be honest and say along with Soul Crew this is an excellent read from start to finish. I maybe biased in the fact it's about a local club and although I don't actually support Everton it made the read even more interesting. Andy Nicholls has paid a heavy price for telling his frank account and incidents that have occured on his travels of following Everton, he has since been banned by Everton Football Club and Merseyside police are checking every detail within the book to see if any action can be taken as he has been too honest and maybe left himself open to further police action such is the content within the book!.
Stories I had heard locally in the past regarding Everton and supporters travels were regarded as 'fairy tales', Nicholls blows away this myth and provides a murky insight into an element of Everton's support that were intent on causing havoc around the country over two decades and as recently as August this year with a pre season riot in Belgium.
It explains in graphic detail of battles with other supporters and a rivalry with Middlesbrough that lasts to the present day. He touches on the England scene and how Scousers are disliked by most fans in the country and the divisions within the England scene. The Merseyside/Manchester hatred is covered in depth and his dislike of Liverpool FC, although his account of Heysel (Of which he was present himself) was a fair one. I found the book a good honest read, it's not the usual hoolie lies to sell books, he tells it as it was by not making himself out to be a super hero and backs up a lot of stories with photo's and press cuttings to compliment the chapters contents.
Most bookshops within Merseyside are refusing to sell the book such is the uproar over the book, I suggest you buy before it's too late!.

THE TRUTH AT LAST
After reading every hoolie book to hit the shelves at last one who's author admits he has taken a few slaps and a backward step in his time.
Not for the faint hearted, Nicholls deals with the lot from the blades to the Racists and ducks no issues.
His honesty gets him banned from Goodison Park for life, not such a bad thing and a football banning order to boot.
Covers the 70,s 80,s with honesty that is backed up with newspapers pictures etc and from then on police files on himself prove he was a main player, unlike many of the authors who have written 10th hand stories to make a few bob.
We all have our own versions about numbers etc but this lad gets it just about right. As an Arsenal fan it did not make pleasent reading at times but anyone in the know will admit that when it counted the blue half of the Mersey were up there with the best football crews in the land.
Laugh a page cut short with an act of violence that sometimes makes you shudder.
Buy it if you knew or want to know what it was like.
Leave it where it is if you are a wannabe Burberry hat hoolie!

So good they tried to ban it !!!!!
Andy Nicholls recollection of the life and times of being a
" Scally " is frank, truthful and entertaining from start to finish. Free from the self hype of other hooli books Nicks account is accurate and at times funny yet disturbing. Tales of being an urchin getting legged by Geordies with beards, getting on his bike(literally)at Oxford and accounts of the CRC, Kensington High Street and the return leg meant I couldnt put it down.

Regular battles with the Red Army, Boro, the Cockneys and more are described honestly although I'm sure some may have a slightly different version of events. Southampton at Highbury '84 brought back memories. Missed opportunties - The Naughty Forty, Zulus are also covered. Ending with running the Belgian buzzies at Anderlecht, seeking help to pack it all in after nearly twenty four years at it this is undoubtly one of the best

All in money well spent - invest in this one !!!!