A Smashing Little Football Firm

Synopsis

In 1977, not long after Liverpool FC were first crowned as European football champions, a gang of young scallywags emerged from the Anfield Road terraces. Determined to follow their team to every corner of Europe as they defended the trophy, but with scant resources to finance such lofty ambitions, they became the absolute beginners of the football scene which became known as the Casuals. For the next seven years the scene, and its associated style, disorder and looting, plagued British clubs, while Thatcher dismantled the country and New Wave music fuelled a generation sick at where their country was headed. Blondie, head of the Firm, tells the story of the gang which ran riot across Europe, doing anything they could to watch their beloved Reds. But this is no ordinary gang of thugs, this was an entire culture being built, a belief system being developed, which involved Weller and knock-off Levis as much as Paisley and Dalglish.