Sully - The Football Thug Who Didn't Give a Fuck...: The Inside Story of Manchester City's Notorious Mayne Line Service Crew by Tony Sullivan

Author:Tony Sullivan [Sullivan, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Empire Publications
Published: 2008-11-30T23:00:00+00:00

I’ve always had a soft spot for scousers. Maybe it’s because I went to live in Liverpool with my auntie when I was a kid. Manchester and Liverpool have always been great rivals. The scousers never forgave Manchester for building the ship canal – bypassing the port of Liverpool and causing them to lay people off work. Today’s rivalry isn’t so much political but on the football field and in the music scene. It is well documented that Liverpool fans were the first abroad to go robbing as firms – mainly as they were always in Europe in the late 70’s/early 80’s where as City & United were not.

However, I knew Mancs who also went to Europe on the rob at the same time, going as individuals - they just didn’t go around bragging about it. A few mates lived in North Manchester, blues and Reds, who used to travel to watch Liverpool in Europe – they never went to the games, nor were they hooligans, they were grafters and used the cover of Liverpool’s support to rob as much as they could and brought back the fashionable clothes of the day. scousers like to believe that they were the first to wear Lacoste and their European adventures are usually used as evidence. They fail to mention the Mancs who also used to bring back gear from the continent - the scousers that travelled know the script, there were more than Scouse accents on those trips.

So much crap has been written by so called hooligans and most of it is pony. Take West Ham’s ICF: they claimed to be wearing Stone Island jumpers and Burberry in 1979. Yet there are pictures of them all wearing fucking donkey jackets, V-necked jumpers and sporting long hair in pictures from that era. The cockneys were years behind the Mancs and scousers on the fashion front. This is fact.

However, one fashion item that all scousers seemed to carry – much to their shame – was the Stanley Knife. Fans today go on about Turkish fans carrying blades but the mickeys were doing it several decades ago. On their away trips legend has it that they would have a collection on the coach and whoever stabbed the most Mancs won the pot. In my eyes this is a shithouse trick. It is one thing kicking the shit out of an opposition fan but a completely different thing to scar someone for life. To me, football hooliganism meant fighting with your hands, head, fists and, if you were on the back foot, whatever there was around you to use. Purposely taking a knife was taking this to a different level and it is the option of a coward.

I’ve often been asked which firm I thought was the better of the scouse firms and I have to say Everton gets the nod. They were one mob we always looked out for as they were quite dangerous because of the reputations of their blade carrying members. They were

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