"The definitive guide to hooligan culture" * joe.co.uk *
"Superbly written ... darkly exhilarating ... a sort of rollercoaster chamber of horrors" * Guardian *
"Compelling, intelligent and fully engaged" -- Martin Amis
"[Buford] gatecrashes a social world that most of us have spent some portion of our lives avoiding and brings it to life on the page with a ferocious relish that only someone who was a foreigner to soccer could manage, or stomach" -- Jonathan Raban
"Buford's reportage is vivid and racy, dropping you in the thick of the madness with a Wolfe-like immediacy" * Daily Telegraph *
"The excellence of his writing takes the reader to the centre of the mob... His words have the fragmented accuracy of a hand-held television camera in a war zone" -- John Stalker * Sunday Times *
"Possesses something of the quality of A Clockwork Orange" * The Times *
"This is an absorbing read, and another winner from Buford, who writes so very, very well" * Buzzfeed *
"Among the Thugs is, by some distance, the best book ever written about football violence. Intelligent, succinct, and always in the thick of it, it reads as a blood-fuelled ode to English football, and as a primer for what will be when Russia hosts the World Cup. It grabs the readers attention like a headbutt to the cakehole." * Tony Parsons *
"Sizzling writing to rival the best of white-heat gonzo journalism" * New Statesman *
"An extraordinary and powerful cautionary cry." * Kirkus *
"Brilliant. . . one of the most unnerving books you will ever read" * Newsweek *
"Buford creates with the majesty of a Tom Wolfe the ultimate price paid by so many for this footballing fever - the Hillsborough disaster, recalled with electrifying eloquence and power" * Time Out *
"A grotesque, horrifying, repellent and gorgeous book; A Clockwork Orange come to life." * John Gregory Dunne *
"A very readable, often funny, book." * The Economist *
"His prose is tough and vivid" * ID *
"Buford pushes the possibilities of participatory journalism to a disturbing degree . . . Among the Thugs does severe damage to the conventional wisdom that England and Europe are bastions of civilization." * New York Times *
"Buford's book is important in that it offers a far more compelling explanation for the football violence than any offered by the pundits of Left and Right . . . Had Buford's account been written by a tabloid reporter or an academic sociologist it might be more easily dismissed. That is comes from a highly intelligent observer, and a neutral outsider with no axe to grind, makes his book all the more powerful and yet troubling." -- Michael Crick * Independent *
"Buford's accounts of the thugs he moved with are by turns amazing, repugnant, stunning, horrid and exhilarating." * Howler *
"The defining book on England's hooliganism" -- Simon Parkin * Guardian *