num_pages: 262
description: A raw, powerful first novel, The Football Factory centres on Tom Johnson, a reasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. We are shown the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex - and, perhaps more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division. Graphic and disturving, occasionally very funny, and deeply affecting throughout, The Football Factory is a vertiginous rush of adrenaline - the most authentic book yet onthe so-called English Disease.
language: English
title: The Football Factory
titlecomplete: The Football Factory
genres: 20th Century, Crime, Literature, Novels, Modern, Sports, Football, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 2004
publisher: Random House UK