football, alcohol, life

Donnell 2022-03-21 09:01:44

"Football is not life, football is better than life." Bill Shankly, the former godfather of Liverpool, once said, but I think what he meant by the old man was to treat football as precious as life and cherish it like that.

I'm an uncompromising fan, and I can't help but shout "UNITED! UNITED!" (I'm a Manchester United fan, not West Ham...), the passion and energy football gives us is what makes it us It is an indispensable part of life, but as a Chinese, I have never experienced football culture, but one thing is certain, the British football culture is a bit too much, of course I refer to the part of the "culture" of football hooligans.

After watching the film, I have a question that makes me think, that is, can football hooligans be considered real fans? Obviously, the hard work and technical and tactical sway of the players on the court only account for a part of their football life, perhaps only a relatively small part. Unlike other fans who put most of their experience in studying the characteristics of the opposing team's play, they put Much of the experience has been devoted to studying the fight characteristics of opposing fans...

if football hooligans were asked to pick the one thing that excites them more between their team winning and their team winning a fight, I'm afraid they I will choose the latter without hesitation, at least the latter cannot be given up.

The green field is extremely beautiful, with the players sweating like rain; the outside of the football field is extremely dark, with blood and rain among the fans; I hope that the beauty on the field will make the fans outside the field get along well, because football is also Life, not cherishing your life and the life of others, is to destroy the sacred football in your heart and others.

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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.