Hooligan DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Before The Football Factory Before The Firm Before Donal Mcintyre there was Hooligan the seminal TV expose that so shocked film director Alan Clark that he made The Firm about the notorious group of violent football supporters the West Ham Inter City Firm or ICF Hooligan is a look inside football s first family of fear the ICF Before them football hooligans could be easily identified as Doctor Marten Levi & Ben Sherman wearing skin heads not anymore The ICF changed the entire football violence landscape; they were professionals from all walks of life Designer clothes-wearing first class travel using & above all organised They made prior appointments with rival clubs firms & travelled first class to meet them always with their special friend Stanley Once a humble builder s tool the Stanley knife became the weapon of choice for those involved No football colours colours were for scarfers (normal supporters) no singing & if it was a drab northern ground probably no match as the meet had been arranged for elsewhere City centres were reduced to little more that looted shops & burnt out cars innocent by-standers civilians looked on in horror as the rival firms fought with each other & the police No longer were the participants mindless tribes of knuckle dragging youths the ICF were a new breed of otherwise successful mostly well off people who got off on violence for its own sakes Football had become the vehicle the public at large the audience You could tell that you had been turned over by the ICF they had business cards printed with the legend you have just met the famous ICF have a nice day & after Stanley had paid his respects the unlucky person got a calling card as a memento Hooligan is a groundbreaking documentary that goes inside the ICF & brought the notion of a new violent subculture to the nation s conscience SPECIAL FEATURES Report from the Social Issues Research Centre Tackling Football Violence