Millwall and the Making of Football's Folk Devils: Revisiting the Leicester Period

Football hooliganism is deeply rooted in British society. Pioneering work investigating this area was done at the University of Leicester during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Both the social roots of such behaviour and the perception by powerful outsiders of supporters in general, and Millwall fans in particular, were examined. This essay seeks to revisit this period and to see, to what extent, such work has stood the test of time.