real football hooligans

Kamille 2022-03-23 09:01:45

Since the coverage of football hooligans in the newspapers is of a negative nature, I naturally hate football hooligans. After watching this movie, however, I had to change my opinion of them.
The United Kingdom, as the birthplace of modern football, naturally gave birth to a large number of clubs with a long history and tradition. The oldest club in the world today is in the UK. The club's heritage for more than a hundred years has naturally cultivated countless die-hard fans. They are not going to disapprove of their club's poor performance. On the contrary, their love for the club can be said to be deep-rooted, the club's achievements ebb and flow, and they always stand firmly on the club's side. Therefore, in TV broadcasts, we can often see that even if it is a relegation favorite, the stadium is still full. Even if the team is relegated, fans will still support the team with their actual actions. Therefore, even if Manchester United has been relegated in history, it still does not prevent fans from supporting it as always, and does not prevent it from becoming a successful club. This point, domestic fans should really reflect on. The team's poor record is almost all downfall. The team's performance was good, and suddenly it appeared again, as if how loyal he was.
I'm a Chelsea fan and my favourite player is Lampard. Lampard came out of West Ham's youth academy. I'm not too impressed with West Ham either. Mainly in terms of performance, West Ham can not be compared with Chelsea. When I watched Football Hooligans, I realized that West Ham's football hooligans were so fierce.
The hooliganism of football hooligans is mainly reflected in the violence on the field and the fighting off the field. In daily life, they maintain the British gentleman's demeanor, especially when the two male protagonists discuss violence in the subway car, pete stands up to a lady Give up your seat. And he told Matt not to point a toy gun at an 8-year-old girl. This all shows that they are different from unprincipled outlaws. Even in fights, they avoided death. In the end, Pete's death was also an accident.
Some people say that football hooligans are not fans, and after watching this movie I can only change my opinion: they are fans, just extreme fans.

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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.