With the recent troubles in Sheffield and Luton,now seems a good a time as any for this lazy post. Lazy because its something I already posted on a documentary forum around Christmas time so it saves me any work today.An interesting two part Channel Four documentary about football hooliganism. The first part explores the 70's and 80's and speaks to some of the leaders of the hooligan firms. How the old cheap football special trains increased away supporters at games,football fashion and also the hooligans own "code of conduct" Part 2 explores how the seeds were sown a year before the tragic Heysal Stadium disaster,shows the knock-on effect from Heysal and the major Government crackdown on the thugs. Alot of top firms leaders were jailed (fitted up by false police evidence in many cases which was later proven in court) With the thugs being squeezed out here,alot of them started causing chaos abroad with England with,for the first time,an England game over in Ireland actually getting abandoned. Contains scenes of violence and a great soundtrack. Ripped from glorious VHS with all the Channel 4 adverts painstakingly removed (my me...not someone else who has reposted this as their own work elsewhere on their "own" documentary blog and ignored my protests!)
It may not be punk rock but its a bloody good watch if you fancy a social documentary for a change. Contains a few old faces from the ugly side of the game including Chelsea's own ex Combat 84 lead vocalist Chrissy Henderson who I must admit does make me laugh with one of his comments and top author Martin King as well as hoodlums from other clubs such as Man Utd,West Ham and Liverpool to name but 3. The fact is,hooliganism was a way of life back then and going to and returning from an away game for the normal fan like myself was a mission back then. So this is a trip back in time.
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Part 1
Part 2
