Grobar: Partizan Pleasure, Pain and Paranoia: Lifting the Lid on Serbia's Undertakers

By James Moor

An Arsenal fan is forced to ditch his first love and switch allegiances to a new team. Handed a Foreign Office posting to Belgrade, James Moor gives up his season ticket and looks for a new Serbian team to support. Being a veteran of the Congo and Helmand Province war zones stands him in good stead for what follows. Having chosen Partizan over Red Star, James enters a scene awash with nationalism, xenophobia, and conspiracy theories. He lifts the lid on Serbian fan culture, Partizan s internal disputes, andviolence between the club s own Grobari (Undertakers) supporters as well as with their hated local rivals. Moor attends matches among crowds of 50,000 and 2,000, and sees games interrupted by stadium fires at a club permanently at war with itself. And this is before former Chelsea boss Avram Grant takes over midway through a tumultuous season at home and in Europe."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909178705
• ISBN13: 9781909178700
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Ltd
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"