What is the author's style in Among the Thugs by Bill Buford?

The novel is three-hundred-eighteen pages in length. It is broken into three parts, a glossary, and an acknowledgment. The first part includes Buford's experiences in Cardiff, Manchester, Turin, and Sunderland. and shows the beginnings of his travels with the football supporters. Part two describes further events in Bury St. Edmunds, Cambridge, and Fulham and represents the turn of his beliefs, in that he begins to analyze crowd violence on a more academic level. Part three includes stories from Dusseldorf and Sardinia and represents Buford's loss of interest in the topic. The glossary provides readers with a listing of football terms, and the acknowledgment lists sources for some of the stories included in the novel.