I did not want to have an arranged marriage or go to weddings or religious ceremonies.
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New special 2nd Edition with improved extra chapters and pictures In a true story of our times, Riaz Khan gives his colourful account of growing up a multicultural individual in a multi-ethnic Britain. The product is already in the wishlist! Reviews There are no reviews yet. This website uses cookies to improve your experience.
Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual review at Leicester Curve – ‘energetic, if uneven’
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So they dress the same and share similar tastes in music often associated with the fashions. These are questions this reviewer asks himself prior to the performance and, for the moment, who better to answer them but Riaz Khan himself in his fine book, Khan, Memoirs of An Asian Football Casual. In came the leather box jackets, ski jumpers and tight jeans. During this period Suf and I were struggling with our identities and there was that tide of racism to contend with.
Who were the lead singers of these records? How ironic is that? But we were invited by the government to work here?? You would think this poison would drive me closer to my ethnicity but that was not the case because I really wanted to fit in. I could not be a Skinhead because of the racist ideology and they would never accept Asians though maybe blacks.
I could not be a Mod because most held the same views and I was never going to be a Grebo Heavy Metal freak as they were smelly, scruffy and also racist! I liked the New Romantic look but it seemed a little effeminate to me even though the music was good, e.
It was not so much the content of the article but the photos that had me intrigued. This one picture had three young men sitting on a train sporting these flick haircuts and wearing clothes that I had never seen before except at Wimbledon or the US Open. There was a picture of a group of thirty odd young white lads sporting flicks and designer gear. The Curve studio audience face each other across the playing space or is it the terraces?
Khan, Memoirs of an Asian Casual
So we went to have a look through these beautiful Georgian windows. And I saw this glass hit an elegant, beautiful woman in the face, and her face opened up. Khan went on to do a degree in arts and humanities and a masters, and now teaches English as a second language. I ask why he wrote Memoirs of An Asian Casual. They were recruiting on the terraces.
The play has been skilfully adapted. In the book, Khan interviews numerous characters about the old days, but the play is a two-hander. The main characters are Riaz and Yusuf, but the actors playing them seamlessly morph into police officers, National Front members, rival gang members, prison officers and family members. For all that Khan condemns football violence today, you sense he still looks back with affection.
Does he miss it? He thinks long and hard. It was like being on a catwalk. Smelling good, looking the best, having a laugh, and kicking off with other fans. Do they worry that Memoirs glamorises the life of a football hooligan? But Khan is not so sure.
Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual: hooliganism gave me a way to fit in | Stage | The Guardian
He tells me he made his oldest son promise that he would not read the book till he was 18, but he still read it when he was He wanted to be like his dad. He started hanging round with his little gang. It was the last thing I wanted him to get into. As for Khan himself, not only has he turned his back on violence, he has even become a genuine football fan — a season ticket holder at Leicester City.
And a couple of years ago he witnessed the most unlikely event in English football history when his team won the Premier League.