This is our sandbox, not yours

Rating: 7/10 (28 September 2004)

Tommy Johnson is a Londoner in his late twenties, whose only attribute is that he likes fighting. Well, OK, he also likes alcohol and sex, but then who doesn't? The Football Factory follows Tommy's adventures with a hooligan firm that supports the Chelsea football club. Most of the time Tommy and his friends (or, as the vaguely sexual term used by these people goes, "mates") are high and drunk or either high, drunk and getting their @sses kicked by the fans of rival football teams.
I watched this film and "Withnail & I" within a few days of each other. The conclusion: it sucks to be a man in England. Your choices are to be alcoholic and violent, or alcoholic and homosexual. Pity them, but fear them also.