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Sex, Drugs and Football Thugs: On the Road with the Naughty Forty - Mark Chester

Synopsis
What does a football firm do outside football? In the case of Mark Chester and his infamous Naughty Forty, the answer was: live off their wits and their mettle. Chester left his native Stoke in the mid-Eighties in search of something more than the buzz of terrace violence. He lived in North Africa with a pickpocket gang called The Hawks and dealt hash and coke in the Spanish coastal resorts, fighting off rival Moroccan gangs. After returning to London as a down-and-out - "to strip myself bare" - he took off again for Benidorm and the start of the rave scene. Soon the Stoke boys had teamed up with the 6.57 crew from Portsmouth to run Ecstasy rackets, driving pills in from Holland hidden in the tanks of motorbikes and clashing with international organised crime bosses. The Nineties saw then in California, interspersing riotous road trips with prostitutes with jaunts to watch the England football team abroad, and the inevitable carnage that ensued. From robberies in Germany to jail terms in Peru, deadly fights in Belize to smoking spliffs with Rastas in Barbados, "Naughty On Tour" is part road trip, part confessional, and by turns harrowing and hilarious.