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Against Modern Football, British Chavs, british subculture, Casuals, Chavs, terrace casual - November 10, 2020

Is British Subculture Dead?

2020. And this year has got us thinking. What, with the empty football stands, no live music, festivals and cancelled scooter rallies, what an awfully shit year it's been really. It has also got us pondering the state Youth Subculture is in. Even the mainstream hasn't been so uncool ever in history. Young lads these days seemed more self obsessed than ever. The order of the day is teeth from Turkey, ripped skinny jeans and six pack abs over 6am wake-ups, clobber, booze and aggro. Where are all the men's men at? I would take the chavs and scallies of the early...

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April 30, 2020

Tom Aspinall - UFC Heavyweight - Hard Graft Podcast Episode 1

Finally, we actually got around to launching this long promised podcast! And what a time to do so, order out of chaos and all that. We can only apologise for the fact that it took a global pandemic and a government lockdown for us to actually get down to it, but here we are. With this we hope to help stem the boredom and keep you sane and occupied amidst and throughout this odd time in human history, with a plan to continue onward once we can all return to some kind of normality. Hard Graft Podcast Episode 1: UFC Heavyweight Tom Aspinall. ...

Football Awaydays : Plastic pints, overpriced pies and priceless memories.

Awaydays are the best days. In fact to me they usually dwarf pretty much any home game no matter how big or important that may happen be. More often than not, a good away trip to some baron decaying wasteland can turn into a better day out than a big local, potentially mobhanded rival at home. In fact when I think of the days that I was going to the match on a regular basis, there aren't many home games that instantly spring to mind, not at least from my time watching football as an adult. It even got to...

Football Casual : It started in the North?

Northern football casuals, the originals? The age old debate rages on. What region of England does the terrace casual movement owe its beginnings to? It'll probably never be proven and definitely never agreed on. And whilst our Southern counterparts were perhaps the first to be noticed and marked with the medias Casuals moniker, fellow Northerners who were there from the get go claim it all started back in '79.... up North of course! Regardless of the scene's beginnings, one thing that was guaranteed from region to region and certainly in the the pre-internet years, was the difference in styles and trends. Casuals we'rent just...

We are the Working-class. Urban Grafters 1.

We are the working-class,With a dirty but glorious past.Skins and mods and ox-blood docs,Button-down shirts and fresh terrace togs,Behind the walls of crumbling factories and mills,wide-eyed ravers pop pills.Inspiration comes straight from the streets,From our music and style to the kicks on our feet,White Talcum powder on polished wood floors,Northern Soul nighters behind these closed doors.Zoot suits on scoots and braces and boots,Weekends for the football,He dribbles! He shoots!For we are the working-class,The rich, they might think we've come last.But they can thank us for music and popular culture,That they've leached and cashed in on like vultures,we've clung to our...