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Journalist Bill Buford Discusses Soccer "Hooligans."

Journalist Bill Buford. He traveled for eight years with "soccer thugs" -- England's hardcore soccer fans known for their violent outbreaks surrounding England's soccer games. Buford witnessed "lads" urinating on fellow spectators, commuter trains being demolished, a pub being robbed, and saw stabbings. He wanted to understand the violence that has caused many deaths (including the death of 66 fans asphyxiated in a crush of people trying to get out of a stadium in Glasgow in 1971). His new book is "Among the Thugs: The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence." (published by W.W. Norton & Co.) John Gregory Dunne calls the book "A grotesque, horrifying, repellant and gorgeous book."

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Other segments from the episode on May 27, 1992

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 27, 1992: Interview with Bill Buford; Interview with Angelina Réaux; Commentary on the words force and violence.

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