Football hooligans jailed after violence in Lincoln
Football hooligans who were part of a violent clash before a Lincoln City home game have been sentenced at Lincoln Magistrates Court.
The 11 men were sentenced on December 13 for violent disorder charges at The Ritz Wetherspoons on High Street before a Lincoln v Luton football match in October 2012.
The violence escalated and spilled out onto High Street and Firth Road. Furniture and glasses were thrown around.
In the clash, two women were injured and treated in hospital for minor injuries.
In total, 12 pleaded guilty to violent disorder offences at earlier hearings. All 12 were given 10-year football banning orders. The 12 men all charged with violence disorder before a football match last October. Photos: Lincolnshire PoliceThe men charged are:
Nathan Luke Ashmore (33), of St Catherine’s Grove, Lincoln — three years prison
Tomas Samways (20), of Jenson Road, Bracebridge Heath — two years four months young offenders institute
Lee Anthony Oliver Swain (26), of Walnut Place, Lincoln — three years prison
Daniel Oliver White (20), of St Johns Road, Bracebridge Heath — two years four months young offenders institute
Marcus Johnathan Greatorex (22), of Geneva Avenue, Lincoln — two years eight months prison
Phillip Neil Adams (36), of Prior Street, Lincoln — three years prison
Callum Busby (19), of De Wint Avenue, Lincoln — two years eight months prison
Ashley Evans (22), of Picton Street, Lincoln — three years prison
Andrew John Deans (27), Clipstone Village, Mansfield — three years prison
Jake Sinclair (26), of Vernon Street, Lincoln — two years eight months prison
Liam Wiggins (18), of Chester Road, Birkenhead — two years one month young offenders institute
Josh Atter (18), of Matlock Drive, North Hykeham 18 month detention and training order
DI Suzanne Davies said: “This was a protracted police investigation that went to great lengths to track down every single offender involved in the violence on that day. Its success was largely down to the tenacity and professionalism of PC Andy Pearson.
“All of these offenders are thugs who masquerade as football fans. They give decent, law abiding home and visiting fans a bad name and they have rightfully been brought to justice.
“We hope our investigation and the subsequent convictions and sentences send out a very clear message to offenders in Lincoln and those visiting to cause trouble. We will arrest you and put you before the courts.”
Segment 2: Author Mark Barry joins Phil to discuss his sequel to Ultra Violence named Violent Disorder that deals with Soccer Hooligans
from an insiders point of view.
Further to my recent interview with Mark Barry, as part of my Author Spotlight section (if you haven’t yet read it, you can do so by clicking here), I’ve gleaned some extra information about his newly released book ‘Violent Disorder’ and Mark’s thoughts behind it.
What genre do you consider your latest book – Violent Disorder?
Violent Disorder – Mark Barry
Sport fiction, crime and its own genre, colloquially known as Hooliporn. How did you come up with the title?
It’s the sequel to the first book, Ultra Violence, and it is one of the most common offences in football hooliganism. It is also extremely catchy. I am surprised no one has thought of it. What are your expectations for the book?
Well, I sold an awful lot of copies of the first book and I would like to repeat that. I would also like sales on both titles – and my other mainstream titles – to continue to rise.
Is there a message in ‘Violent Disorder’ that you want readers to grasp?
No. I’m not much of a message writer. My books are madness.
Which of your characters is your favourite and why?
I like the narrator in the book. He’s the complete liberal writer, ironic, laid back, with no experience of the fighting. He is slowly drawn into the violence going on around him through his friendship between two nutty brothers who are supposed to be going straight. He’s a nice man. Vulnerable, clever, a decent writer and you get the sense that he doesn’t know why he’s writing these books, but also that he cannot quite stop himself. Order into chaos…
Which of your characters is most unlike you?
Any of the characters in the book who work for the Police or the Judiciary.
Are experiences based on someone you know, or events in your own life?
It’s a complete work of fiction. I made it all up. None of the characters exist in real life and none of the stuff ever happened, guv.
Can you share a little of your current work with us?
Adjacent to the courthouse opposite, a wagonload of yellow-jacketed Police watched the situation develop on canalside. Twenty years ago, it would already have gone off down here, Coventry on one side, Notts on the other. A blaze of colour, a flurry of fists and boots. A berserker cry (c’mon then, c’mon then), back and forward, back and forward, twenty-on-twenty, fists connecting with shallow sockets, thumbs in eyes, teeth parting from gums, yelps, cries, boots upside your head, trainers stamping, conscious, unconscious, running about, always running about. Not today. Not down here, in 2013, the regenerated canalside, full of upmarket brasseries selling champagne at a hundred quid a bottle. Chain wine bars, chain eateries, chain charcuteries, chain hairdressers where grown men spend thirty seven pounds on a Danny Craig haircut; student chain comedy clubs full of tedious student comics taking the piss out of people in wheelchairs and making prehistoric observations about the Battle Of The Sexes. One hundred and thirty five quid a month gyms with mixed saunas. Running through the opulence is the reanimated canal, once biologically dead; stinking of death and shit, and the lethal chemicals that fuelled the British industrial revolution, won us the Second World War and left behind a toxic disaster area replete with piles of unguent, softened, semi-dissolved hybrid fish. Once a waterway bursting with the rusting detritus, and the vile leftovers of the narcissistic sixties generation (our parents and grandparents, who took all the money for their houses and pensions, and thus, looted our futures, swapped our future well-being for idleness and a non-stop retirement holiday abroad), now, in 2013, scrubbed, scoured, eviscerated, defenestrated, strained and drained, pristine blue, full of frolicking fish. The occasional brightly painted barge passing by. A cyclist wearing an ill-fitting rose-pink helmet rode past on a mountain bike costing four thousand seven hundred quid. Young, self-assured, self-aware, politically neutral, trans-metropolitan, fit, with communication skills honed at a redbrick university, empathetic, health conscious, green, gender sensitive, racially relaxed and already a three star cook in his own fitted kitchen (with metallic oven and granite worktops), he was heading toward Trent Bridge on the tow path running all the way past the heat station and the old caves. Past Meadow Lane. The canal is his. The world is his.
Where to Buy Mark Barry’s Latest Novel – ‘Violent Disorder’
Mark’s latest novel, entitled ‘Violent Disorder’ is available now on Amazon – just click on the links below! Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk My thanks to Mark Barry for agreeing to be interviewed. If you’d like to find out more information on Mark, you can check out his website at: http://www.greenwizardcarla.blogspot.co.uk
It’s Wednesday, so that means it’s Author Spotlight time again and I’d like to introduce you to – Mark Barry!
What inspired you to write your first book?
Violent Disorder – Mark Barry
I was challenged to write a substantive work of fiction by two friends, in different places, but at the same time. That became Hollywood Shakedown. I’m about to release my seventh novel, so that was an inspiring challenge! Do you have a specific writing style, Mark?
No. I write all sorts. Third person, first person. I have also written a football hooligan novel called Ultra Violence in second person omniscient. That is my best seller so far, so maybe I ought to do that again. It was tough to write like that– and not universally popular. It was a real experimental method. Chuck Palahniuk wrote Diary in this style.
Describe a typical writing session or your typical writing area
I live in a flat and I write on an old wooden writing desk. I write volume on an old PC tower and keyboard that I cannot bear to throw out, and I edit on my Toshiba laptop with all the modcons, all the good stuff. I wear an Inuit writing cap for inspiration (the 230 words for snow!), and I often write after a run, a pastime, which inspires me. I listen to music all the time, non-stop, except for when the Horses and Greyhounds are on the TV. I never watch general TV. My writing sessions are usually Goliath-sized and I can sometimes, be sitting here for eighteen hours.
So Mark, what are your current projects?
I have just completed the sequel to Ultra Violence. It is called Violent Disorder and it is about over-aged football hooligans at Notts County Football Club. I am about to write a novel about the recession and the changing face of Nottingham – it’s called Keith the Philosopher. I am also compiling another anthology and have plans for a 300,000 word Indie epic called The Castle, which I shall write next year.
What books have most influenced your life most?
Martin Amis’ Money and London Fields. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart and Paul Auster Music of Chance.
Simply put, Sarah, these books push the boundaries of writing and what is possible. Some of the construction of sentences in these books makes me want to cry. Every book I write – and Violent Disorder is my most experimental book – is influenced by the four books above. The former is possibly one of the top ten books of all time, in my humble opinion. Amis WAS a genius as a young man. Not so much now, though. Age and the condition known as expatriatism. Ruined him. He needs to come back to London Fields, but he won’t.
If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?
Amis as a thirty-five-year-old. No question.
Who is your favourite author and what is it that really strikes you about their work, Mark?
Martin Amis. Simply because he took fiction to another level. He made everyone around him – Rushdie, Barnes, Byatt – at the time, look pedestrian and hackneyed, as if they were an irrelevance. Some of the paragraphs in Money are different class.
What book are you reading now?
I’m currently reading comics and graphic novels– Shade The Changing Man, Watchmen, Sandman, Swamp Thing – all the classics from the mid eighties, particularly Peter Milligan’s underrated Shade.
Mark, are there any new authors that have grasped your interest?
Obscura Burning by Suzanne Van Rooyen is a sumptuously written book. Sanguinary by Emma Edwards is great fun and The Briton and the Dane: Concordia, by Mary Ann Bernal, my editor, takes historical fiction to some new places. Maria Savva’s Haunted was good, too, though I thought she rushed the ending, a common problem in Indie. All four deserve to rock and roll. I have to say indie writers don’t generally work for me – the sector is so dominated by writers I cannot relate to. I am increasingly looking at published work to satisfy my lust for reading. Sad really, though I’m sure it will change. Things are cyclical.
If you had to do it all over again, would you change anything in your latest book?
No, not my latest book. I would change the middle section of The Ritual and de-eroticise my banned book, The Illustrated Woman, so more people can read it without blushing.
Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?
All of it. Writing is hard. The people who say writing is easy aren’t writers and are doing it wrong. I don’t like editing either, and I hate going over stuff.
What was the hardest part of writing your book, Mark?
Editing out stuff I like and should be included.
Do you have any general advice for other writers?
Ignore the gurus with their novel writing 101 advice. Ignore the Creative Writing lecturers, too. If you need to go on courses like this, pack it in before you start. You are not a writer. You do not have a strong enough voice. There is no such thing as an introductory level novel. Is your work good enough to publish? If it isn’t, then don’t – you effect every single one of us if your novel is a load of badly written cobblers. Go away and wait for your voice to speak and practice into the cold, dark night.
Do you write an outline before every book you write?
No, I’m the ultimate pantser. Never written notes in my life, even for my degree.
Do you have anything specific that you want to say to your readers?
I think I’ve said enough, don’t you! ”:)”
Mark and His Latest Novel – ‘Violent Disorder’
My thanks to Mark Barry for agreeing to be interviewed. If you’d like to find out more information on Mark, you can check out his website at: http://www.greenwizardcarla.blogspot.co.uk/
Mark’s latest novel, entitled ‘Violent Disorder’ is available now on Amazon – just click on the links below! You can also read more information on ‘Violent Disorder’ and his thoughts behind it, by checking out my Share Saturday post here. Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk
Seahawks: Undercover Cops Hired To Wear Opposing Team’s Uniform
September 11, 2013 7:19 PM
RENTON, Wash. (CBS Seattle/AP) — The Seattle Seahawks announced that the organization has hired undercover cops to wear San Francisco 49ers gear and patrol Sunday’s game in order to curb unruly behavior.
“We have great fans,” said Seahawks president Peter McLoughlin. “Our goal is to ensure a safe environment for all in attendance, including visiting team fans.”
The Seahawks announced Wednesday they will have the undercover police officers wearing opposing team apparel beginning with Sunday night’s highly anticipated matchup, saying the goal is to ensure a safe environment for all fans, including those supporting the visiting team.
Author Mark Barry's novels sheds light on violence in sports in his novels, available on Amazon
