Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewThe 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 *
Fever Pitch with testosterone and eight pints of lager. Like
Fever Pitch, it is not exclusively a novel about football. This is a chronicle of a lost tribe – the white, Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual who is fed up with being told he is crap. * Glasgow Herald *
Not only an
outstanding read, but also an important social document... This book should be compulsory reading for all those who believe in the existence, or even attainability, of a classless society * Sunday Tribune *
Powerfully written and tells you more about the mentality of those who disrupt football matches than all the theses of the sociologist academics put together * Daily Mail *
Bleak, thought-provoking and brutal... Has all the hallmarks of a cult novel * Literary Review *
