In Blighty, a "C" is by no means average (Back to Scrapbook)
As England's vast number of yobs pile on the years as well as the pie & lager fed pounds, the current tendency is for them to write books about their experiences breaking heads down the pub, etc.
Everton fan Andy Nicholls is no exception to this new rule. The 40 year old Nicholls was recently banned by the Liverpool Magistrates from every sports ground in England and Wales for the next two years. Nicholls is known to the cops at home and on the road as a "category C" hooligan. (The worst kind). He cannot go in any area around Everton's Goodison Park four hours before and after games, according to icliverpool.com. Nicholls is also not allowed to go to any town or city hosting Everton, and must surrender his passport whenever England play abroad.
His book Scally - Confessions of a Class C Hooligan (The book they tried to ban) is one of two hooligan "tell all volumes" to recently hit the bookstores. In a true homage to the author's prowess with the pen, passages from his own book were read at the court hearing that resulted in his two year ban. His punishment comes under the Football Disorder Act, which does not approve of how Nicholls spent the better part of the 1970s running with notorious hooligan gang the County Road Cutters (known for their knife-wielding tendencies.)
He also survived the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985 and was featured on the front page of the Sun for publishing a popular hooligan fanzine called Get Into Them. In October of 2005, Nicholls will regain his freedom to return to the football grounds, sidestreets and pubs to ply his knuckle trade in the name of the blue Merseyside team.
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