How do these films depict the relationship between football and national identity?

Sep 8, 2005 ... West Ham is a London football team. “Firms” are the names for organized gangs of supporters who plan and provoke fights with the firms of ... May 7, 2004 ... We're about to witness a rash of films about football violence – and one of them stars Elijah Wood. By Matt Munday. Aug 13, 2016 ... Alan Clarke's made-for-TV classic remains the most authentic film about football hooliganism ever made. ... Alan Clarke was one of Britain's most ... Oct 23, 2010 ... ... films in years. ... Novica takes us to the Belgrade underground where a group of Nazi sympathisers plot football violence and other small-scale ... Oct 12, 2023 ... ... film about sports and dead dogs. “Bottoms” mixes the qualities of ... Unlike how older films glorified violence by making it seem cool ... This chapter features in Hopkins and Treadwell's (2014) edited collection: 'Football Hooliganism, Fan Behaviour and Crime'. The realism, recognising how violent hooligans become, is off the wall. Despite the displays of violence being unquestionably brutal, there is more to The ... Sep 27, 2009 ... Back in June I posted a review of Awaydays, a film about football hooligans in the 1980's. In it I explained that as a football fan I just ... Mar 5, 2025 ... Danny Dyer and Stephanie Leonidas tell Yahoo UK about their new film Marching Powder and its exploration of football hooliganism, ... Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings series) presents one of the hardest hitting films on football violence ever made.