Ultra av Tobias Jones

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<b>Winner of the <i>Daily Telegraph</i> Football Book of the Year </b>Ultras are often compared to punks, Hell''s Angels, hooligans or the South American Barras Bravas. But in truth, they are a thoroughly Italian phenomenon... From the author of <i>The Dark Heart of Italy</i>, <i>Blood on the Altar</i> and <i>A Place of Refuge</i>. Italy''s ultras are the most organised and violent fans in European football. Many groups have evolved into criminal gangs, involved in ticket-touting, drug-dealing and murder. A cross between the Hell''s Angels and hooligans, they''re often the foot-soldiers of the Mafia and have been instrumental in the rise of the far-right. But the purist ultras say that they are are insurgents fighting against a police state and modern football. Only amongst the ultras, they say, can you find belonging, community and a sacred concept of sport. They champion not just their teams, they say, but their forgotten suburbs and the dispossessed. Through the prism of the ultras,