Check out this Esquire interview with Awaydays author Kevin Sampson. Although Sampson says he hates the term “casuals,” the book has been noted as the most accurate book about the movement.

Awaydays was my first novel. I was 17 in 1979, a bit of a golden age in that I grew up watching football and following the greatest team in the world at that point. And from a fan point of view we were doing something different, something nobody else in the country was doing at that time. I always wanted to reflect that sort of thing, that chapter in popular culture and social history. 

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