The Football Factory
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'The best book I've read about football and working-class culture in Britain in the nineties. Buy, steal or borrow a copy now'
Irvine Welsh
The Football Factory centres on Tom Johnson, a reasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. We are shown the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex - and, perhaps more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division.
Graphic and disturbing, sometimes very funny, and deeply affecting throughout, The Football Factory is a vertiginous rush of adrenaline - the most authentic book yet on the so-called English Disease.
Author: John King
Format: Paperback, 272 pages, 131mm x 198mm, 198 g
Published: 1997, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
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'The best book I've read about football and working-class culture in Britain in the nineties. Buy, steal or borrow a copy now'
Irvine Welsh
The Football Factory centres on Tom Johnson, a reasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. We are shown the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex - and, perhaps more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division.
Graphic and disturbing, sometimes very funny, and deeply affecting throughout, The Football Factory is a vertiginous rush of adrenaline - the most authentic book yet on the so-called English Disease.
The Football Factory