Green Street Hooligans might not exactly be a primer on playing soccer, watching soccer, or choosing an Premier League team, but it is rather educational, in its own way. This is what I learned from this film which is mostly about the "firms" (band of soccer hooligans that support each team), but which also features a few minutes of the game actually being played.
1) Pete Dunham (the head of the West Ham firm), assessing the various teams and their firms: "West Ham football is mediocre, but our firm is top-notch and everyone knows it. Arsenal...great football, shit firm...Tottenham...shit football, and a shit firm..."
2) Even someone as innocent looking as Elijah Wood - who always looks kind of like Frodo, no matter what movie he's in - can turn into a sociopath in one evening if introduced to the right people in East London.
3) The wimpiest and corniest of songs - "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" can sound like the choir at the gates of hell when sung by drunken soccer fans hoping to witness or participate in an ass whoopin' either on or off the field.
4) Pete Dunham, while being almost incomprehensible in speech, makes up for it with one of the coolest, most ridiculous struts in either sports or movies:
Youtube Pete Dunham
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