Do you think that if it were no longer a bubble that both sets of fans could be trusted to not start any trouble? Those fans, around 12 in all, swept straight past the boardroom at the top of the stairs and on up to the press box. I walked out, stunned, and he said that I had hurt him the next day when he phoned. I said he had hurt me more.”

It would be absolute nonsense for Annis to write a book about his life without mentioning his self-confessed participation in football hooliganism. Then suddenly Cardiff City’s world, future and mine was about to change all because of one man “Sam Hammam” Cardiff City fans through the yearsAnnis wants standing, not seats for the hardcore and younger fans. He is fixated with a dislike of Swansea – and loathes rugby and their people who are jealous of the massive superiority of football.” So when I met Sam, I was not in the best of moods due to this apparent change of heart from Langston. According to the reverse troublemaker Abraham is the Cardiff supporters today a peaceful and diverse group, Soul Crew is history. Now, tempers peaceful outlet shapes, and directed either against the owner Tan than the other team's supporters. A YEAR and a half after the relationship between Annis Abraham and Sam Hammam broke down, the flamboyant chairman turned up on Annis’ doorstep in Castleton. In the book Annis describes how he felt, towards the end of Hammam’s tenure, the pressure on chairman was easy to see and there were meetings with fans when he would lose his temper more and more.

I know Annis and Dayo doesn't fancy it but I would see Barry Town a even better prospect because they are just one league away from European football. The cost of policing this fixture must be immense even whilst it's still a bubble - god knows how much it would be to police if there were no bubble. The truth is i was set up, of course i ve been involved in the casual scene & violence i don't deny it, but that day i was set up, they lied saying i was with people with links to neo nazis and people who had drugs! One thing i have been against all my life is drugs. Received the book out in sunny Cyprus and went straight to parts that I thought I would be more interested in (Hamamm, Riddler etc) and then read it from the start after that. I read it in three sittings altogether which I never normally do (work interrupted me unfortunately). It's a bit like watching 24 or playing football manager in that you just want one more episode or one more match. Really addictive reading. I found myself really gutted though when I got near the end and I realised I had read the chapters I had got to already. This isn't a criticism either way, just a fact of life at most Championship clubs with limited success over the years.year-old has made ​​as many football fans in Cardiff, he has now renounced violence culture , and look today at football matches as a peaceful family activity .

Annis the book you should be very proud of , it's by far your best yet and to anyone who hasn't yet bought it , you really don't know what you are missing . The other clubs cleaned up at the end of the 1980s , but Cardiff were just more and more violence , says Abraham . Westham were the best in those days (when at home) but not very good away, Cardiff always had good away support."

Sorry why would I see anything different..? Unlike you Gwyn I was also willing to put my money where my mouth was on this project together with Annis and Dayo at the time.

The buzz of going away, you cant beat it, Im still friends with the lads i went away with". "Every home game was trouble in those days and every away game was beyond trouble!" There are many tails about clashes with board members, protest marches and my favourite ditty when he went into the players changing rooms to confront Alan Durban! Come on anyone who remembers him would pay a lot of money to have done that. Notable stars such as Diana Dors, Roy Castle, The Barron Knights, Freddie and The Dreamers, Lonnie Donnegan and Solomon King are just some of the big acts that were booked to play there. As we discussed what to do for the rest of the evening, Annis, dressed in a white tuxedo and his beautiful wife in a long, slinky off-the-shoulder gown, walked towards the car. The adventure, The dream is probably what every fan from Plymouth to Newcastle hope that one day they can live their own dream with their beloved club.You will not believe how big the change has been, now there is hardly a cop on the Cardiff match. Now maybe arrested two to three in each game , while it used to be 200-300 . Changing stadium ended the hooligan culture in Cardiff , he said. It also shows Cardiff City fans following Wales over the years and how times and fashion has changed. It’s a must for any Cardiff City fans to relieve some of the best memories Abraham has been in a unique position to chart the ups and downs of the club he has fervently followed since childhood.