![]() His other exploits include drinking enormous amounts of beer, doing a runner from restaurants, and having sex as mindlessly as he beats people up. ![]() The protagonist, a Chelsea fan called Tom, lives for Saturday afternoon, when he gets the chance to kick someone’s head in. Welcome to the world of the football hooligan. The violence is very much of a European hue and it’s associated with Doc Martins, swastikas, and gangs of skinheads walking the streets in broad daylight armed with chains, bricks and knives. More curious to the North American reader will be the random acts of violence which do not involve loners with guns. Curious then that the title remains The Football Factory, because Americans think football is a game with helmets and and padding. It has recently been reissued by PM Press in a handsome and suitably eye-catching edition for North American readers. John King’s novel was first published in the UK twenty years ago. ![]()
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