Known affectionately by the Macc Lads as ‘Liguid Goblin’, Lance Manley toured with the foul-mouthed punk band for four debauched years.

With the release of his new controversial book, featuring a chapter devoted to the band, he has finally spoken out about his wild time with the boys.

Lance, now 39, spent the early 90s touring with the band, the self-proclaimed ‘rudest, crudest, lewdest, drunkest band in Christendom’ – famed for their political incorrectness and boozy, sexist lyrics about beer, football and fighting.

Lance tells of hair-raising behaviour which included abandoning crew members all over the country, the posting of dog poo packages, glueing the crew to seats, pinning each other down for beatings and bottles of various nasty concoctions being thrown at gigs.

But Lance, who ran fansite The Bear’s Head, named after the band’s old Macclesfield pub, says there was more to the band than met the disapproving eye, and what was seen as senseless vulgarity was in fact an intelligent send-up of British blokishness.

The lineup was lead singer Muttley McLad (Tristan O’Neill), The Beater on guitar (Geoffrey Conning) and Stez Styx on drums (Steve Hatton), with other members coming and going over the years.

They lived at ‘Hectic House’ on Sunderland Street and played big venues all over the country.

But they were banned from playing in Macclesfield as trouble broke out among over-excited fans – playing a final private gig in 1997 for Muttley’s Macclesfield football team Mary Dendy.

Lance became interested in the band after hearing their song "Sweaty Betty" – got to know one of the roadies, and started getting into gigs for free and touring with them twice a year from 1991 to 1994.

He interviewed the band for the website at their final get-together in 1999 in the Ivy House pub, on Park Lane.

Lance said: "I had never heard anything like it in my life and touring with the band was pretty wild.  One of their favourite tricks was leaving crew members behind after gigs. And I once received dog poo through my letter box.  One guy was left in Scotland when he was in the shower and ran down the road in his towel and once I was sent to the bar, got back and the dressing room was empty so I had to hitch-hike home.

"They glued a guy to the seat in McDonalds, there were ‘Grease Stops’ when we would stop at service stations and see who could eat the most cholesterol and ‘The Flounder’ was a challenge where the bigger guys would pin someone down, pile on top of them and pummel them.

"On tour there was a lot of sitting around and we would amuse ourselves with stupid jokes. The Macc Lads were the real McCoy and it was a glorious time."

From rebellious band to law-keeper, Lance joined the police in 2004 but left after becoming ‘disgusted’ with the force and his book the ‘Stab Proof Scarecrows’ is about his experience.

Chapter ‘The Macc Lads vs. The Bronx Warriors’ tells the story of his bosses finding his photo on the Macc Lads site - promptly asking him to remove it. Lance, who now teaches English in Rome, said: "I can understand why my inspector asked me to remove my name, the band were offensive and joked about things you could never get away with today, like Chubby Brown but with rock music.  They appeared sexist and inappropriate and a lot of people didn’t get the joke. But I think it was intelligent, a wonderfully glorious combination of things we are forced to keep quiet about today. It was an affectionate, tongue-in-cheek tribute to what people do on a Friday night."

The ‘Stab Proof Scarecrows’ is dedicated to murdered Rossendale goth Sophie Lancaster and was put to an Ebay auction last week in aid of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation.