Boot Boys  They called them smoothies, bovver boys, hard mods or simply: bootboys. Working class kids growing up in Britain's socially stratified milieu during the late 60s/early 70s with a disdain for anything reeking of the upper or middle classes. They had an affinity for close cropped or mod-length hair, steel-toe boots (huge asset in street fights), straight Levi jeans or Sta-Prest trousers, suspenders (braces) and buttoned-up shirts alongside a penchant for short, simple and loud guitar based tunes with anthem-like choruses, strongly prevalent in the glam rock hits of the day. It is those shouted choruses, like chants on the stadium terraces, cheering on the footy team, that resonate as a primal call to arms. The aristocracy had organised and codified football, but it was the lower classes that played it. Bootboys became synonymous with violent encounters between rival football club supporters, with many participants being sent to hardened juvenile detention facilities called Borstal "schools."