About as realistic as Evertons European success chances

Rating: 2/10 (21 September 2005)

I sat down with a few cans of Stella to watch this film on DVD. By the end i was as bored as i could ever be. I'm a football fan of many years and have seen my fair share of 'real' violence outside and inside grounds in my time. With this experience i can honestly say the film is as unrealistic as they come. Football violence nowadays is usually restricted to stick throwing and girl slapping amongst 'men'. The film trys to paint hooligans as having a great laddish lifestyle, fast cars, fast fists and fast girls. The hooligans i've known in my time don't fit this bill, so i suggest the film is more based around drunken fools who get into scraps rather than hooligans.
The film never convinced me it was going anywhere. It reminded me of any anti-social behaviour based film, but happened to be loosely associated with football. The characters were weak and poorly acted. The storyline was as weak as the tea at Swansea City and the ending was up there with Guesthouse Paradiso fighting for the award of "rubbish ending of all time".
If you want to see football violence then go back to the years when it was really around (Nowadays it's just drunken girl slapping) so try watching ID. That's not a fantastic film but it's much better than this rubbish. (2/10)