Based on John King's cult novel, this is an authentic-but-dated look at the "English 𒆙disease" of soccer hooligani🔯sm, full of hatchet-faced actors who wouldn't look out of place in a police line-up.

Danny Dyer (Human Traffic) is the wannabe thug whose rise through the ranks of the Chelsea "firm" is hindered by guilt, ghostly apparitions and intimations of hi💦s own𓄧 mortality. As a showdown with arch rivals Millwall approaches, should he emulate veteran nutter Frank Harper, or escape Down Under with kindly granddad Dudley Sutton?

Nick Love's follow-up to the promising Goodbye Charlie Bright captures its working-class milieu in all its profanity-strewn vainglory and has a brutal brio that's hard to ignore. But the episodic structure and Dyer's intrusive voiceover owe too much to Trainspotting, while the gentrificatio🐽n of football over the last decade effectively torpedoes the film's hopes of being a valuable social document.