Product Description

What does a football hooligan firm do outside football? In the case of Mark Chester and the infamous Stoke City Naughty Forty, the answer was: live off their wits and burn the candle at both ends.

Chester left his native Stoke in the mid-Eighties in search of something more than the buzz of terrace violence. He lived in North Africa with a pickpocket gang called The Hawks and dealt hash and coke in the Spanish coastal resorts, fighting off rival Moroccan dealers. After returning to London as a down-and-out - "to strip myself bare" - he took off again for Benidorm and the start of the rave scene scene.

Soon the Stoke boys had teamed up with the 6.57 Crew from Portsmouth to run Ecstasy rackets, driving pills in from Holland hidden in the tanks of motorbikes and clashing with international organised crime bosses.

The Nineties saw Chester in California, enjoying riotous road trips with prostitutes and taking jaunts to watch the England football team abroad, and the inevitable carnage that ensued.

Sex, Drugs and Football Thugs is part travelogue, part confessional, and by turns harrowing and hilarious.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60438 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
'Brilliant stories and crazy adventures. Highly entertaining.' (The Lads Mag) --THE LADS MAG

Review
'Pills, thrills and a good kicking or two.' (Knave Magazine)

Customer Reviews

sex, drugs and a future great novelist
Imagine Raymond Chandler, Charles Bukowski and Laurie Lee collaborating on a book. Well, fantasize no longer.
Mark Chester's often sleazy adventures are written with poignancy and in beutiful, painterly detail. Alligned to this is an impeccable deployment of humour.
The author of 'Naughty' has consolidated his unassailed position as the master of the 'hoolie-lit' genre. But like so many greats it seems he's retiring at the top: 'And that's it.'He writes,'Two books and you've had your lot.' I hope this is only in respect of his autobiographical offerings.
It would be interesting to see Chester take on the challenge of novel writing and, endeavour to marry his proven descriptive talent with a classical plot. Otherwise we will all be deprived of a formiddable potential. Maybe Milo books could diversify and facilitate this route for Mr Chester?
Sex Drugs and Football Thugs is so mesmerizing that I read all 328 pages in one nine-hour sitting.

Spot on!
Memories and similar tales i encounted whilst reading this book. I thought though sometimes bloody funny, and the next paragraph damn scary to the point where you found yourself in ''jaspers'' shoes almost reliving the experiences to the point where it stopped you in your tracks and made you think about life, its ups and downs and a reality kick back of ''was it worth it or ''whats life all about''!
If i had to find fault, then my only gripe would be the book doesnt have any photos (which we all like as you know)
Overall i find the book a quality read for any one who is interested in exactly what it says on the cover....SEX, DRUGS AND FOOTBALL THUGS!
Dont borrow it, buy it ya cheapskates....enjoy!

does what it says on the tin
a great insight into the exciting life on the edge that this bloke has read. i have read quite a lot of similar books and found them unconvincing or boring but this one is Spot on. well done mark if you are reading this. his naughty fourty is decent also.