The Football Factory

by JohnKing (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.22

  This collection of linked stories centres on Vince, a seasoned Chelsea hooligan, whose life is characterized by unemployment, excessive drink, bad sex and casual violence. He is one of many, who frustrated by social degredation and years of Tory rule, find violent release on the terraces.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.36

  '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. 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

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $11.37

  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 disturbing, occasionally 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.