Book description
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…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Football Factory as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If, like me, you come from a working-class background, you will love this book as much as I did.
The novel centres around working-class lives and football hooliganism, which was rife in England in the 1970s and 1980s. The Football Factory, set in the early 1990’s, is the first in a trilogy, and the narrative centres around the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink, and bad sex.
The book is as authentic and brutal as they come and a real page-turner.
From Joseph's list on classic working-class novels of all time.
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