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"This new, re-written edition combines Ronnie's previously self-published books Sharpe as a Blade (the 50s and 60s) and Sharpe as a Blade, a 70s Trip into one volume with lots more stories and photos. Prepare to laugh out loud, be shocked, disgusted, and perhaps outraged. Ronnie doesn't hold back or sanitise his language in this honest, first-hand warts-and-all memoir of a working class journey from the backstreet terraces of the 50s to the football terraces of the 60s and 70s. It's all here: the swinging sixties, the birth of the British beat boom that conquered the world, the heady days of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, through to the 70s where rock stars sparkled, new wave garage bands preached anarchy and football violence escalated out of control. Relive the music, the fashion, the football gangs, mods and rockers, hippies, hell's angels, skinheads, glam-rockers and punks that shaped these amazing decades. Don't read this book if you aren't prepared to remove your rose-tinted glasses, or if you look back at the last century as the ""good old days"" when none of today's problems existed. Ronnie Sharpe does not do sugar-coating!"

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Sharpe As A Blade is a brilliant book that paints some wonderful images. I found it really fascinating and humorous, some of the stories made me laugh out loud. I urge people who grew up in that era and those too young to remember, who want to get an insight into what it was like back in the 1960s to buy the book. Gareth Evans, Radio Sheffield. Ronnie Sharpe, lifelong Sheffield United fan, Dronfield scrapman and semi-retired football hooligan has just written the X-rated first volume of his life story, Sharpe as a Blade. Nick Hornby has nothing on him; Ronnie's book is footballs answer to the Fred Pass phenomenon with added sex and violence. Martin Dawes, The Sheffield Star.

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