Foreword

 

A few years back I had a chance meeting with David Williams during which he asked me how I personally went about writing the books I have written. The answer was simple; we all have at least one good story to tell but it is having the dedication to sit down and put pen to paper or thump your fingertips upon a keyboard in order to tell it, that is the hard bit. That dedication comes from having a belief in your work, a belief that the story is worth telling and that others will enjoy reading it.

Over the past decade some of the world’s foremost publishers finally had their eyes opened to the fact that a whole new market, a whole movement if you like were not being catered for. Nowadays the boom in books relating to football fans and in particular football hooliganism culture, both factual and fiction, has grown to such an extent that all the leading bookshops have dedicated shelving space allocated to that movement; something that when looking back would have been unthinkable in the late eighties to mid-nineties when the game’s supporters were seen by society as being the scum of the earth. Oh how times and football have changed!

Thankfully David Williams had the dedication and belief to sit down and write his story and so his book Desert England is now added to those shelves. Mills and Boon it most definitely is not. I hope you enjoy it, I certainly did and I feel privileged to have been one of the first to have read it.

Keep the faith.

 

Eddy Brimson