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Title: It's not big, and it's not clever.
Review: This book, shockingly aimed primarily at children, tells the horrific story of a group of Nottingham Forest supporters, known as the "Smash-Up gang" - a powerful, subversive offshoot of the "Tricky Trees". Through bloody, and often stomach churning prose, Seymour describes their rampage through the centre of local rivals Derby's city centre, and with almost child-like glee revels in the telling of wanton violence and destruction. As a concerned parent, and Derby County fan, I am appalled that this kind of material be so easily and readily available for young children to read. I had to stop reading the chapter devoted to the Smash-Up breaking into the Fat Cat Cafe Bar beer cellar and urinating into the Speckled Hen as it was too distressing to carry on. Awful. Avoid, like a yellow pint.
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