Cool Cats & Red Devils - Manchester fans in the 1970s

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Stories on English football in the 1970s focus on crowd violence. But for Iain S. P. Reid football match days were a carnival. Iain believed that photography could improve lives. He died in 2000, leaving his fabulous archive of hundreds of photographs filed away in boxes unseen. We’ve featured some of them on Flashbak before. You can buy his high-quality prints in the shop, as many of you already have. Thank you.

Iain took hundreds more fabulous pictures. And we’ve launched a Kickstarter to fund a book of his sensational work. Already Cool Cats & Red Devils has been picked up by the British Press and is one of Kickstarter’ ‘Projects We Love’. We think you’ll love it, too. With your help the book should be printed and ready for Christmas.

Cool Cats & Red Devils - An Incredible Record of British Football Fans in the 1970s - Flashbak

Stories on English football in the 1970s focus on crowd violence. But for Iain S. P. Reid football match days were a carnival. Iain believed that photography could improve lives. He died in 2000, leaving his fabulous archive of hundreds of photographs filed away in boxes unseen. We’ve featured...

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[Flavour]

loads of super patched jackets, like it

 

[Sprocket.]

And some serious centre partings.

 

[editor]

loads of super patched jackets, like it

A few butchers aprons too.

 

[two sheds]

Fucking hell that brings back 45-year old memories of walking to/from football matches along bombed out (well looked like) streets lined with food and footy tat sellers.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Back when the Bay City Rollers didn't look that strange

 

[hitmouse]

thing with this one is that I've seen pictures from Orgreave too many times, so now any photo with an old-fashioned ice cream van and a copper in sight automatically feels ominous to me.