STAND YOUR GROUND AND SUPPORT WEST HAM UNITED!! Cos we'll always stand our ground.'. Burnley is now England's Covid hotspot with 228 new cases in seven days - so how does YOUR area compare? Everyone supported West Ham where I came from. If the premise seems a little far-fetched then it is probably because the sole writing credit is given to a middle-aged American whose knowledge of Cockney culture was probably rooted in Dick Van Dyke's appearance in Mary Poppins. Cass survives, but wakes up to hear the tragic news that his mother has died. Yeah. Since their last meeting, the antipathy and exploits of their rival thugs have become internationally notorious, thanks to the Green Street film franchise. Michael Morgan - known as Micky - is a member of the notorious Inter City Firm of hooligans associated with West Ham. You need to pay the bills. They rushed him but there was loads of his Millwall gang. It stars Gary Oldman, Lesley Manville, Phil Davis, Charles Lawson and Steve McFadden in his acting debut. There was a group of people who you knew were the ringleaders and they would meet up in the pub. It seemed like a right of passage from being a football supporter to becoming part of a football gang. I wanna be in the film.”. There will be a few faces coming out of retirement for this one methinks,' wrote one poster on a West Ham forum. "Critic's Picks: Gary Oldman's 10 Best Performances", Best Movies: The film chameleon's greatest moments, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Firm_(1989_film)&oldid=971009187, Football hooliganism in the United Kingdom, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, A documentary on the life's work of Alan Clarke, The Late Show: Panel discussion and critical reaction to the film, This page was last edited on 3 August 2020, at 17:16. Was it a working-class thing like the media made out? It was just hooliganism, a complete free-for-all. It won the Jury Prize at the Raindance Film Festival in 2005 and the director Julian Gilbey was nominated for the Carl Foreman Award at the BAFTAs. So I paid someone to write the script and I developed and created the Rise of The Footsoldier franchise. Millwall at home!!! Members of the ICF were used as consultants on the film. Cass finds through violence the respect he never had and becomes addicted to the buzz of fighting. The ICF was nothing like the riots last year, wankers on bikes nicking TVs. It questions the members of the ICF about their motives and attitudes. That’s how I raised the money for my first film One Man and His Dog – and it was a dog, that film. Inside the ground fans fought with police and stewards. Cass leads the Inter City Firm to victories against large hooligan firms, such as Leeds in 1980, but becomes frustrated with the lack of publicity the ICF are receiving. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. You’d know there would be a lot of trouble. And no one did? I was in the local pub darts team at 14, it was a different world then. Some of the Scottish teams’ firms were fucking lunatics too. And I thought: If I was to pitch the idea, it’s The Football Factorymeets Goodfellas. By Christian Gysin for the Daily Mail and Rebecca Camber for the Daily Mail Updated: 09:58 BST, 27 August 2009. A DVD was first released by Prism Leisure on 2 Feb 2004. This is extraordinarily helpful. West Ham's Inter City Firm was without a doubt one of the largest and most feared of the football hooligan 'firms' that ran riot throughout England in the 70s and 80s. Basically, the whole film was improvised with no script which, at the time, I thought was cool. 'Yessss!!! That must have been an interesting experience…, TERRY: I turned up on set. Bexy meets leaders from other firms in the Tower Hotel in London, including the Buccaneers. The film follows Leach over 30 years as he works his way up the hooligan hierarchy and into a criminal gang.