Publisher's Synopsis
Over several decades, ever-larger numbers from Britain's working-class 'casual' culture have relocated abroad in search of adventure and opportunity. The results have been mixed: unfortunately, the so-called 'British disease' relocated with them, which included hooliganism and the 'grafting' of counterfeit designer merchandise, among other vices. Author Ian Hough experienced the casual revolution at firsthand, travelling for long periods and working with other British expats in a variety of circumstances and cultures. Perry Boys Abroad describes the long, crazy journey from British cities and towns to the exotic corners of the world, from the 1970s to the present day. Smugglers, drug dealers, bricklayers, agricultural migrants and regular travellers on the Magic Bus to Athens all followed. With Manchester's changing fashion and music scene as a backdrop to the oral memories of many included in this book, Perry Boys Abroad explains how these football hooligans and grafters pioneered many modern fashions and attitudes. Best-selling authors Colin Blaney and Cass Pennant are among those who tell their own stories of how British designer thugs colonised foreign lands and waged war on their terrace rivals abroad.
