Review of The Football Factory (2004) by Dan R — 27 Apr 2008

Utter toss. No wonder the country is in the state its in with shit glorifying shit like this going on. I mean, it was just a crap version of i.d. but without the grit. Yeah lets all go smashing each other in for fun, nearly get killed, watch your 'mate' get killed point blank, then have a good laugh about the whole thing.

At least in i.d., it's ending was true to the story, he knew he'd fucked it. And the plot was so obvious. I had already guessed most of it before it happened (grandad's mate dying, danny dyer surviving, billy getting sent down, final fight being under that bridge).

Same old cockney wanker stuff, with a shallow attempt to sell gloryfied hooligan worship as something deeper. Utter shite. In fact, the only bit I enjoyed was when the chavs stole billy's kids ps2, and billy drew dart boards on the chavs chests, gave his kids darts and said 'right then boys, first to 180'.