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Double bill of British dramas about football violence and
hooliganism. 'The Football Factory' (2004) is based on the novel by
John King. Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer) is a bright but bored
30-year-old with a steady job and close-knit family who lives for
the weekend life of casual sex, lager, drugs - and violence.
Through him we meet three other males in his world: Billy Bright
(Frank Harper), a right-wing fascist full of bitterness at a
country that he perceives as having failed him; Zeberdee (Roland
Manookian), a mouthy hooligan whose life revolves around crime and
drugs; and Bill Farrell (Dudley Sutton), a 70-year-old war veteran
who tries to enjoy every day to the limit. Shot in documentary
style using a handheld camera, the film realistically captures the
lure and potency of football violence. 'Arrivederci Millwall'
(1990) follows a group of hardcore Millwall supporters as they
travel to Bilbao in Spain for England's World Cup matches in 1982.
Their rowdy behaviour soon leads them into trouble, and the
violence escalates as Billy Jarvis (Kevin O'Donohoe) steals a gun
to avenge his brother's death in the Falklands conflict.
The adjectives associated with the University of Washington's 2000
football season--mystical, magical, miraculous--changed when Ken
Armstrong and Nick Perry's four-part expose of the 2000 Huskies hit
the newspaper stands: "explosive . . . chilling" ("Sports
Illustrated"), "blistering" ("Baltimore Sun"), "shocking . . .
appalling" ("Tacoma News Tribune"), "astounding" (ESPN),
"jaw-dropping" ("Orlando Sentinel"). Now, in "Scoreboard, Baby,"
Armstrong and Perry go behind the scenes of the Huskies' Cinderella
story to reveal a timeless morality tale about the price of
obsession, the creep of fanaticism, and the ways in which a
community can lose even when its team wins. The authors unearth the
true story from firsthand interviews and thousands of pages of
documents: the forensic report on a bloody fingerprint; the notes
of a detective investigating allegations of rape; confidential
memoranda of prosecutors; and the criminal records of the
dozen-plus players arrested that year with scant mention in the
newspapers and minimal consequences in the courts. The statement of
a judge, sentencing one player to thirty days in jail, says it all:
"to be served after football season." Read additional praise.
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