There's nothing different about me. I'm just another bored male, approaching 30, in a dead-end job,
who lives for the weekend. Casual sex, watered-down lager, heavily cut drugs. And
occasionally kicking f**k out of someone.
"The Football Factory" focuses on two different groups of English football
supporters -- the Headhunters, who support Chelsea F.C., and the Bushwackers, who support Millwall F.C. Throughout
the movie, the Headhunters fight with other English groups such as those
supporting Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Liverpool F.C., and Stoke City F.C..
The film follows Tommy Johnson (Dyer), a football hooligan in his mid 20s who
has begun to question his morals and the morals of those around him. Tommy's
major conflict in the film stems from his inevitable aging. Although he loves
his weekend 'meets', he knows he cannot possibly play forever.
While enjoying a night out with his pal Rod, they meet a couple of young
women in a bar and both end up back at one of the girls' houses. In the morning,
Tommy awakes to a man sitting over him with a knife against his throat. Rod
arrives at the scene, hits the man over the head with a cricket bat, and they
both are able to run home alive but causing what is know as the Butterfly Effect because the man with the
knife is revealed to be Millwall Fred's (Hassan) brother, who begins to track
down Tommy.
The climax of the film is set around two of the main groups, (Millwall and
Chelsea) meeting for a brawl, Billy tells Tommy he is going to take a gun to the
fight, Tommy is shocked, but Billy tells him it's only a flare gun. Near the end
of the movie, the fight takes place and Tommy gets put in hospital. He says on
the voice over (and also said a lot of the times through-out the film) "was it
worth it?," and then "'course it fucking was!" Zeberdee is seen going to the pub
toilet and snorting Cocaine, the drug dealer he robbed and beat-up earlier is
seen coming into the toilet carrying a hand gun, he says "what's happening,
zeber-f**king-dee?", Tommy is seen coming into the toilet. The gun goes off,
killing Zeberdee, then the credits come up.
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