Don't miss this movie for fear of violence

Rating: 9/10 (3 August 2006)

I am an American girl who knows nothing of English football or the firms that live and breathe the game. I absolutely loved this film. I stumbled onto it by mistake and I don't regret it. There is violence and it has an appropriate "R" rating, but it is so much more than violence. You get to see the more human alter egos of the G.S.E. and their lives outside of the firm. I was surprised at the positions these men hold when, at first impression, they seem like dead beats and drunks. In a short time you start to care about these "Hooligans". These characters care for one another like family, even in the face of tremendous betrayal. Missing this movie because you fear the violence would be a shame!!