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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 'King's novel is 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 the attainability of a classless society' Sunday Tribune 'The Football Factory will do for hooligan culture what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh housing estates' Select ' 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, The Football Factory has all the hallmarks of a cult novel' Literary Review
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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
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
People who have given this book negitive reviews, just don't want to believe this world exists anymore!
23 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback
From the exclusive corporate boxes, to the high-rise tower blocks, young Asians to elderly white men, this book covers all the angles which surround the communities, which in turn, surrounds the football stadiums.
It isn't about Football as such, even so this is at the centre of most of the stories, it is about the community which once supported it, but has now been priced out, and left behind.
From old skinheads, to punks, socialists,'mindless' thugs, and men who landed on the Normandy beaches in forty-four, this book leaves no area unturned, and confronts the issues of sexism, racism, and working-class culture, bravely and honestly.
John King doesn't shy away from how 'real' people talk, and how 'real' people think. For many of us it is the language we hear in pubs every Saturday, but rarely hear on mainstream television or film. Whch has for too long, tried to deny that some of these thoughts still exist amoung the average male in the country.
This book is as important as Alan Sillitoe's, Saturday night and Sunday morning, because it has given a voice in contemporary literature to a section of society which didn't have one before.
I hope it will be remembered as a cult classic, which inspired a film which didn't even attempt to cover half the subject matter the book does.
It isn't about Football as such, even so this is at the centre of most of the stories, it is about the community which once supported it, but has now been priced out, and left behind.
From old skinheads, to punks, socialists,'mindless' thugs, and men who landed on the Normandy beaches in forty-four, this book leaves no area unturned, and confronts the issues of sexism, racism, and working-class culture, bravely and honestly.
John King doesn't shy away from how 'real' people talk, and how 'real' people think. For many of us it is the language we hear in pubs every Saturday, but rarely hear on mainstream television or film. Whch has for too long, tried to deny that some of these thoughts still exist amoung the average male in the country.
This book is as important as Alan Sillitoe's, Saturday night and Sunday morning, because it has given a voice in contemporary literature to a section of society which didn't have one before.
I hope it will be remembered as a cult classic, which inspired a film which didn't even attempt to cover half the subject matter the book does.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Most football fiction for adults is rubbish. This is great. I read it the week it came out when I was a bookseller and no book has ever surpassed it.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Interesting and disturbing depiction of a contemporary working-class Londoner. The novel portrays a bleak England which has little to offer its poor, white natives. The central character--who one imagines must be loosely based on the author--is a nasty man, whose one outlet is football hooliganism. A Chelsea fan, he defines his existence not around actual matches and scores, so much as he does around the pre and post-match violence (if any). The book seems to suggest that for him, and his ilk, society has nothing to offer and he must retreat to the camaraderie of his fighting friends to find any release and meaning in his existence. The chapters alternate between focusing on the main character on match days, and peripheral characters (some only barely related to the novel at all) and slices of London life. Despite the very raw descriptions of violence and sex, the writing is too deft, and the message too sharp for the book to be considered a mere cult novel. King's subsequent novels, Headhunters, England Away, and Human Punk are all equally vital--if not as raw--reading. Great non-fiction companions to this book are Colin Ward's classic, Steaming In, and Nick Danziger's Danziger's Britain.
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Not as clever as it thinks it is
In the first person narrative, the main character makes some cogent social observations and is mostly convincing. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mr. Edmund A. Bloxam
A silly little book but worth a quid from a charity shop.
... But, all in all, a pretty flawed enterprise.
Horrible blokes seek out fights with like minded retards; get drunk; shag birds; hate everybody except their staunch... Read more
Horrible blokes seek out fights with like minded retards; get drunk; shag birds; hate everybody except their staunch... Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2006 by W. Jones
Two thumbs up!
I first watched the film, then got interested and ordered the book on their official website.
I must tell you the book is even more humorous and sarcastic than the movie, John... Read more
I must tell you the book is even more humorous and sarcastic than the movie, John... Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2006 by Thiago Bachiega
A little tale of nothing.
As another reviewer points out, this is not a novel. It is simply a series of events involving the narrator, who is a Chelsea hooligan. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2006
Kicking
King captures so much more than a generation of football going bad boys. I don't as a rule read fiction but I'd saw the film and took the trilogy on holiday with me. Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2004 by sean keating
Absolutly Fantastic
An absolutly fantastic and truthfull book. All that happens in the book happen in life!
Through the years i have followed football i have seen and heard of what this book is... Read more
Through the years i have followed football i have seen and heard of what this book is... Read more
Published on 18 July 2004
Not a novel
This is a brilliant book about events surrounding football and a couple of main characters, but is in no way a standard novel with any set story line. Read more
Published on 24 Jun 2004 by M. Wilding
really great.
its not only a hooligan book but also shows the economical side of fans and workin class. The good thing is u dont have to be a British fan to read this book , the topic is... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2004 by oktay
excellent!!
This book is absolutely amazing! You may think I'm mad because I'm female but I found this book just as good as any other man would! Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2004 by Jaimey
Football stereotypes in the most blunt form possible
This book follows the story of a bunch of working class football fans who follow Chelsea, for whom the weekly highlight consists of a match at Stamford Bridge or an away game, a... Read more
Published on 25 July 2003 by Darren Simons
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