# The Football Factory

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- Book: [The Football Factory](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-king/the-football-factory) ([The Football Factory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-king/the-football-factory.md))
- Authors: [John King](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-king)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9973-191-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 1997-05-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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 context of surveillance, media manipulation and division. Graphic and disturbing, sometimes very funny, and deeply affecting throughout, The Football Factory is a vertiginous rush of adrenaline - the most authentic book yet on the so-called English Disease.