Arguably the outstanding literary fictional account of British football hooliganism is former manager of The Farm Kevin Sampson’s first novel (Sampson, 1998a), set in the late 1970s around the activities of Tranmere Rovers football casuals.

I can also say that in Italy we don’t use a scotch fillet for cotechini… we use all the left over meat for other cuts. The meal would go on well into the early evening, and would end with us unwrapping our Christmas parcels and nibbling at fruit and nuts - which, incidentally, we also used as counters to play our annual family game of tombola. A coarse cut sausage made with fresh English pork, red wine, fresh flat leaf parsley, fresh smoked garlic and fresh sage. The pork used in all our own-label sausages comes from the same pigs that are used for our fresh pork and we are the only supermarket that knows every farm and farmer that supplies its own-brand English sausages.Gran Cotechino Precotto - this cooked Cotechino is a speciality of Modena dating back to the 16th century but now very popular throughout Italy. Our product is a traditional Italian sausage, made from premium pork, cooked and seasoned with an exciting blend of herbs and spices.

The Cotechino sausage hails from the Modena region in Italy, and is a traditional winter warming dish that is especially popular served with lentils at Christmas time.Jones, D and Rivers, T (2002) Soul Crew: the Inside Story of Britain’s Most Notorious Hooligan Gang (Bury: Milo Books). Savoury pies and breads, eggs, local meats, roasted fruits and vegetables and sweet cakes emerge from the outdoor wood-fired oven tended by Jessica – whomoved to the guesthouse fromOsteria Francescana – and her team. Once we'd grown up, we were somewhat disappointed to be told that our masterpieces had actually ended up in the feeding bowl of Roll, my grandfather's bloodhound.