Whoever thinks about this as an authentic movie, hasn't a clue about football

Rating: 3/10 (19 July 2009)

It's a while gone seeing this movie for the first and absolutely only time, but the story was predictable (that the brother in law is old boss of the firm, is pretty clear after 10 or 20min)and the characters really are ridiculous, especially Elijah Wood whom i not believing a second that his character has a fascination of football violence. I don't really understand people here comparing this movie with football factory and actually say, this is the more realistic movie.One has said, A Hooligan can't be a Florist (Billy Bright/Tommy Johnnson), of course he can be, that is one of the Problems, if you think about hooligans as a "crisis" of society, there is no frame what a hooligan does on the weekdays, you having all kind of different people. I'm from Germany, so I don't know about English football from experience, but seeing the Guys from Football Factory brings back some memories. Seeing the Guys from Hooligans really brings me laughter, because you can see that the actors don't even have a clue about footballculture. And a moral point really is the shocking statement at the end of Football Factory saying, Was it worth it? of course it was worth it, not some American outsider gets back to his original purpose. Everyone who is going to football games and supports their teams with all heart and support football in ways they ever prefer, know that this movie is the less ambitious work ever done in the context of footballculture.