Cockney Reds: The Story of Manchester United's Southern Army

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rolleyes: In fact, there was a survey done a couple of years ago and there was more united fans than city fans in Manchester according to that. And then someone from Sky Sports came over – I thought they were telling us to keep the noise down because we were talking a lot – and said, ‘Stormzy, do you want to go on there? I always say with anything that we do, I hope that in 20 years I see someone and they’re the something something at Manchester United or I am currently doing this at Sky Sports or I am currently doing this at LADbible and that was because of Merky FC and the initiative that we started.

Whenever I see anyone that I’ve grown up watching on tele or who have inspired me or who I respect or who I admire, I’m like, ‘Yo, let me get a selfie’. Stormzy: I’m just really proud that we have got to a stage where it is out in the world and we’ve launched it. Raised in South London, he rode with a violent biker gang before the soccer terraces took over his life. It was alright, hoolie stories dont bother me but get a bit tedious, wishing death on someone because they have the odd scuffle is hardly fair - what about the millions of people who have fights outside pubs every friday/saturday nights - should they all be culled?

It’s got like 70 pictures of me when I saw [Sergio] Aguero in Dubai – and he crushed my heart that day when he done that [ scored against QPR to win Man City the title in 2012]. Even my nephew supports Man City, growing up I just saw Man Utd winning all the time and I said I want a piece of that.

Massive credit to my team at Merky and massive credit to adidas because with an idea of this stature and this size and this ambition, people need to come together. I swear he bounced the ball on his thigh for fully fifty yards as he moved from United's half towards the West Ham penalty area. I have hated them ever since they tore up our stadium in Dublin but I must admit I enjoyed kicking them back to their boats (i know, they're not worth it really, but tattooed moronic skin headed English twats are very hard not to kick the shit out of when they are wrecking your capital city). All you whiny little pricks who secretly use their parents computers to piss on the real fans should just go to hell.

for what its worth would you still be saying this "bucket head" is a good lad if you were a city fan and you happened to bump into this guy and ask him for a ticket. per cent of senior roles in the game being taken by people who are black or mixed heritage, despite 43 per cent of footballers being black or mixed heritage. Equally, it reminded me why I was crazy for United and not my local side Crystal Palace in the Swinging Sixties. But well done for trying to sound hard on an internet forum all the same, I can just see you and Redinsyd slapping each other up, while the rest of us watch panorama. The Cockneys turned Euston Station into a warzone, infiltrated famous ‘ends’ like Arsenal’s North Bank and the Shed at Chelsea, and stormed other grounds even when the Reds were not playing.

His book Red Army General, which is an account of his life as a football thug, was published this month". The name 'Cockney Reds' stuck in the early seventies, by which time hundreds of youths from the South were following Manchester United. Stormzy: I just hope to inspire change, which sometimes sounds like such a worldwide, such a massive ambition and sometimes it sounds unrealistic. I was with all of my nephews and we had the courtesy of going to the side of the pitch with adidas, they took us down there.

Robert 'Banana Bob' Cleur emerged as their leader, working on building sites to fund his drinking and brawlers trips around the country, backed by a formidable army of fighters.