After he saves a vital penalty, the rest of the boys begin to take a liking to him, especially Jay, who asks if he is coming to Portsmouth at the weekend. Dom asks his Dad for money to buy the same pair of trainers.ĭom arrives late at the football game and is put in goal. He then asks Dom if he wants to play in his football team. They become acquaintances, visiting a sports shop where Bex purchases a pair of Adidas Munchen trainers. Dom later finds out where Bex works and goes to visit him. Bex compliments Dom's courage, saying that he has a lot of guts to walk in and face him. There, Dom apologises for the two of them. The two then go to the local pub, the Lord Nelson, where the firm hangs out. The morning after, Tel tells Dom that Bex is after them. After the two share words, Bex headbutts Tel in the face.
Dom is a normal young lad who hangs around with his mates, and one night they go to a nightclub, where his friend Tel walks into Bex. A 'firm' being the name used by groups of smartly dressed hooligans, under the pretense of being supporters of a particular team, who arrange organised violence on match days with rival 'firms'.īex is the leader of the West Ham United football firm, that travels up and down the country to fight other firms. Dom is a young wannabe football casual who gets drawn into the charismatic but dangerous world of the firm's top boy, Bex Bissell. The protagonist of this adaptation is Dom, who was a minor character in the original. It retells a similar story to the original, but it is told from a different character's point of view.
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Loosely adapted from Alan Clarke's 1989 classic TV film for Screen Two, Nick Love's film is set earlier in the 1980s around 1984.