I love you, but you are in love with a Yankee

Ollie 2021-11-18 08:01:29

Lived in London for a small year, subject to the second-hand hobby of the second-hand friends, and also subject to the second-hand position of our second-hand school (the law and order in East London is the best), the two teams with the deepest grievances in the film Milvo I have been lucky enough to be there. My friend became a fan because of Millwall's slogan "no one likes us", which is so cool. We became the only two Asian faces on the stadium. We also accepted a tabloid interview. By the way, according to the record of West Ham United this year, I will definitely be relegated to the British Championship next season to meet Millwall again, and I am also ready to collect the bodies for my buddies next year.

Closer to home, recite a poem.
When the o2 dome, fighting in groups, middle-aged men, and shining in the background, the Thames next to Greenwich has been stained red by blood...

Honestly In other words, I always find it unreliable for Americans to enter the British core fan club, which is similar to the story, but the whole film still captures the main theme of East London. As the title shows, I and my wife According to our analysis, we both agree that this is actually a story of a young American looking for true love and discovering himself.
There are actually three people involved in the story.
Mian'er Matt Mian can even accept his roommates who dropped out of Harvard. He took a conservative estimate of the exchange rate of 10,000 US dollars in 2005, which is about 5,000 pounds, and went to London alone to find his sister. As a result, I ran into my brother-in-law’s younger brother, Pete, the leader of the West Ham United GSE Fan Association. In the afternoon, he drank, watched the ball, did a fake, violently gene mutation, and fell in love with Pete.
Pete is a British boy with a strong physique and a top-notch body. He speaks a typical East London accent. He is a gardener of the soul with serious work. In his spare time, he takes a bunch of buddies to go around the field. At first I looked down on Matt (just like most British people look down on Americans), but it didn't take long before a strong love burst out. Heroes cherish heroes, and the two became close friends.
But this kind of story is inevitably plain, so the screenwriter immediately thought of a Chinese proverb, "If you want to be more plain, just make a love triangle", the most brilliant, tangled and awkward character in the story, Bov appeared. From the beginning, he saw pete and Matt’s playful sad eyes and a series of awkwardness, anger, drunkenness, betrayal, crying, repentance, change of heart, and the last figure that fell on Pete’s corpse. Does not show any deep love.
So the story revolves around the battle between matt and bov for pete. As for what kind of football hooligans, football culture, glory and dignity, self and id, love and hatred are just decorations for the director to cover up this love story.

However, I still want to express my praise for the director’s true restoration of the British's contradictory national qualities, because in reality I can often see high-end white-collar workers wearing three-piece suits and lard on the stadium shouting. "fxxk" all night, this is the Englishman, the Englishman coexisting with gentlemen and gangsters. Purely polite British, that only exists in our dreams.
In addition, in the film, the hooligans of West Ham are obviously better than the hooligans of Millwall. Is Millwall worthy of being the most notorious football club in the UK?

Finally, I want to express my resentment about the fact that the UK can still smoke in the house in 2005.









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Green Street Hooligans quotes

  • Pete Dunham: [Matt and Pete are sitting at a food vendor stall, reading a newspaper the morning after the Birmingham game/fight] Fuckin' journos. Look at this.

    [he slaps the paper]

    Pete Dunham: West Ham wins 3-nil in a blindin' performance, and our little scrap makes the headline. Bloody muckrakers.

    Matt Buckner: So, what is this?

    Pete Dunham: Bollocks journo bullshit.

    Matt Buckner: No, no, this, the GSE.

    Pete Dunham: [whispering] Shhh! Lower it, son!

    Matt Buckner: What are you guys, like, an organized political movement or something?

    Pete Dunham: No, mate. We're a firm. You never heard of a firm in the States?

    Matt Buckner: No.

    Pete Dunham: All right. Every football team in Europe's got a firm. Some have two.

    [Matt gives him a blank look]

    Pete Dunham: Christ, I forgot how clueless you Yanks are. All you've seen of us is the stadium riots on TV, innit? Come on.

    [they get up and walk away from the stall]

    Pete Dunham: See, West Ham football is mediocre. But our firm is top-notch, and everyone knows it. The GSE: Green Street Elite. Arsenal... great football, shit firm... the Gooners. Tottenham... shit football, and a shit firm... the Yids, they're called. I actually put their main lad through a phone box window the other day.

    Matt Buckner: [Matt looks down at the newspaper] What about Millwall?

    Pete Dunham: Ah, Millwall. Where to even fucking begin with Millwall. Millwall and West Ham firms hate each other, more than any other firms by far.

    Matt Buckner: Sorta like the Yankees and the Red Sox.

    Pete Dunham: More like the Israelis and the Palestinians.

    [Matt laughs]

    Pete Dunham: We haven't played Millwall in ten years. Their top boy's this geezer named Tommy Hatcher. 'Orrible ol' cunt. Back in the Major's day, Tommy's son was killed in a scrap. After that, he went completely mental. Lost the plot.

    Matt Buckner: Well, who's the Major?

    Pete Dunham: Ah, the Major. Quite a legend 'round here. He ran the GSE in the Nineties, when I was comin' up. Hardest bastard you ever saw. They say we kinda lost our way when he left. But believe me, my boys are bringin' the ol' GSE reputation right back.

  • Matt Buckner: So basically, firms are gangs?

    Pete Dunham: Kind of... but we're a far cry from all that Bloods and Crips bullshit. I mean shootin' a machine gun out of a movin' car at an 8 year old girl, that's just cowardly. See, we might be into fightin' an all that... but it's more about reputation. Humiliatin' another mob in a row, doin' somethin' the other firms get to hear and talk about - like a Yank in his first fight battering one of Birmingham's main lads.