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KHAN: Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual - ISBN:9780957098640

Born in Leicester late 1965 into a Pakistani/Afghani household, the oldest of 5 siblings. My parents 1st generation immigrants and working- class. We did not look like the typical Asians as my brothers had blonde hair and light eyes when they were young, I had green eyes.. We got a lot of abuse from our white colleagues at school (being supporters of the National Front), there was a tide of racism sweeping the country and they made us feel ashamed of being Asian. My younger brother and I had to take up martial arts (Shotokan karate) to defend ourselves. I was torn between two cultures I did not know what to do, however this all changed when in 1983 we started to attend Filbert Street football ground in Leicester and created a little firm called the YTS (Young Trendy Squad) and we were part of the Baby Squad. My first casual outfit was a Patrick cagoule worn with a Lyle & Scott polo neck, plain Slazenger V-neck jumper, bleached jeans slit at the bottom and Puma G.Villas. In a true story of our times, Riaz Khan gives his colourful account of growing up a multicultural individual in Britain. he found his own identity in the early 1980s, when he adopted football's 'casual' culture.