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A few months ago this newsletter featured this engrossing strand, which told the inside story of The Daniels and the Lyons, two notorious gangs that continue to operate in and around Glasgow. 

Now Gangster has returned with a new series, hosted by Tony Bellew, looking at football hooliganism and exploring how those who were lured into it, were a part of it and those who tried to stop it. I particularly admire how it taps into the psychology of these groups and how, perhaps unsurprisingly, many hooligans don’t see themselves as being hooligans at all.

You can listen weekly wherever you listen to your podcasts, but the full series can already be heard on BBC Sounds.

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