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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 "is not exclusively a novel about [soccer,] it is also a chronicle of a lost tribe – the white Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual who is fed up with being told he is crap. It is the story of a flight from fear by a group of Londoners who have seen the present and know it does not work. King writes powerfully with a raw realism and clear grasp of a culture which has been denied but cannot be ignored."
—Glasgow Herald
"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
"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 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
—Irvine Welsh
The Football Factory "is not exclusively a novel about [soccer,] it is also a chronicle of a lost tribe – the white Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual who is fed up with being told he is crap. It is the story of a flight from fear by a group of Londoners who have seen the present and know it does not work. King writes powerfully with a raw realism and clear grasp of a culture which has been denied but cannot be ignored."
—Glasgow Herald
"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
"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 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Book Description
A raw, powerful first novel, 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 disturving, occasionally very funny, and deeply affecting throughout, The Football Factory is a vertiginous rush of adrenaline - the most authentic book yet onthe so-called English Disease.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant and Disturbing,
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This review is from: The Football Factory (Paperback)
Brilliant 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 around prospective and actual pre and post-match violence. 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, Human Punk, and White Trash are all equally vital-if not as raw-reading. Great non-fiction companions to this book are Colin Ward's classic of football hooligans, Steaming In, and Nick Danziger's depressing travelogue of England, Danziger's Britain.
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant and Disturbing,
By A. Ross - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Football Factory (Paperback)
Brilliant 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 around prospective and actual pre and post-match violence. 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, Human Punk, and White Trash are all equally vital-if not as raw-reading. Great non-fiction companions to this book are Colin Ward's classic of football hooligans, Steaming In, and Nick Danziger's depressing travelogue of England, Danziger's Britain.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Football Factory,
By Seth Ferranti- Gorilla Convict Publications - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Football Factory (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Paperback)
The Football Factory along with England Away and Headhunters are the soccer hooligan trilogy in fiction. Anyone interested in soccer hooligans will love this book and check out the movie too. John King is one of my favorite writers and comparable to Irvine Welsh in style. Definitely check these books out.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
F***ing brilliant,
By mr n j cole - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Football Factory (Paperback)
The film is even better, in the words of my younger brother..."You will want to put on your Stone Island jumper and kick the f**k out of somebody" buy it ;) |
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