One Three One: A Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel - Plot & Excerpts
NOT EVERYBODY GOT BUMMED 12. NOT EVERYBODY GOT BUMMEDMidnight, Sunday June 11th, 2006 Room 6, Hotel Su Talleri, Macomér From midnight to 7am, a seemingly endless series of ‘what ifs’ clanged and resounded through my empty brain. But each time, every aspect of our incarceration that I explored pointed me not at the dubious political endgames and Anglophobia of Judge Barry Hertzog as the catalyst for our Kidnapping, but instead to the collective guilt of Mick, Brent and Dean, whose shared need to prove their hooligan credentials at Italia ’90 had followed hot on the heels of their spectacular, ahem, non-attendance at Hillsborough. Call yourselves Liverpool fans? But then, even I was somewhat responsible for their predicament. What if I hadn’t been a lifelong Nottingham Forest fan with connections? What if I hadn’t bowed to pressure from Mick’s sister Sharon for Forest tickets to keep her 13-year-old twins nice-and-safe up my end, far from poor Liverpool’s Leppings Laners? What if Mick’s social worker persona had not kicked in and forced the twins to hold their tongues as jeering Forest fans at first mistook the flailing behaviour of the dying Liverpool fans for Hooliganism?
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