Good Film ruined by not being set in the early 80's

Rating: 4/10 (12 January 2012)

I am from East Ham. I have live there since the 70's. West Ham is a real place. So is Green Street. The film is a very moving awakening film with great acting direction and cinematography, and would have have got 9 or 10 stars if it was not for it's glaring inaccuracies. Organised football hooliganism, from white East-end gangs was a real issue back in the late 70's and early 80's. Green street and the rest of the East-end back then was mainly Pubs and working man Clubs. Since the early 90's this is no longer the case. Green Street is probably the most popular Asian (That's Indian sub continent) Market in Britain. Though there are plenty of West Ham fans. This type of hooliganism is largely unheard of in London. Even if the script needs it still to be there, why are there no Asian people in Newham (that's the borough Green Street is in). If they had just set the film in the early 80's. I would have really enjoyed it and not had the unpalatable taste of them White washing my home town.