[2] Showing no empathy, Nicholls has said he "would change nothing" about his time as a football hooligan, including "pillaging and dismantling European cities, leaving horrified locals to rebuild in time for our next visit" and having "seen visiting fans at Goodison Park pleading not to be carved open after straying too far from the safety of their numbers;" however, he is wary of violence coming to his own doorstep since he has had children.

Nicholls who lived in Rhosesmor in North East Wales, at the time had attended the match as part of a Holywell Town club trip.

As part of his banning order he also had to sign in at a police station on match days, and hand in his passport every time a British team played abroad.

"[2] The same month Nicholls had also appeared on the BBC documentary programme Panorama during an undercover investigation into previously unreported violence at the 2006 World Cup.

"[8][9] Nicholls' first book, Scally: Confessions of a Category C Football Hooligan dealt with the victim knife attacks perpetrated by the County Road Cutters firm, who are associated with Everton.

He also confronts the alleged problems of racism at Goodison Park and he describes rivalries with the gangs of Aberdeen, Chelsea, Millwall, Middlesbrough and other clubs.