The Real Football Factories International
The Real Football Factories International is a documentary style programme about football hooliganism across the world.
The Real Football Factories was the first series, where presenter and actor Danny Dyer travelled the UK,
meeting some of the more notorious football firms. In this spin-off series, Dyer goes international,
meeting firms from across the globe. Dyer played the main character of Tommy Johnson, a main member of a fictional Chelsea firm
in the 2004 film The Football Factory.
In 'The Real Football Factories International', Dyer visits ...
Turkey, Argentina, Italy, Croatia and Serbia, The Netherlands, Brazil, Poland and Russia.
In late 2007, The Score in Canada started to broadcast these episodes along with "The Real Football Factories."
But with an altered soundtrack due to copyright issues.
Episode 1 : Turkey
Episode 2 : Argentina
Episode 3 : Italy
Episode 4 : Croatia and Serbia
Episode 6 : Brazil
Episode 7 : Poland
Episode 8 : Russia
Episode 1 : Turkey
In the first episode, Dyer goes to Turkey, one of the more notorious countries for football violence,
due to the passion of their supporters. The episode is shot mainly in Istanbul, where the countries two biggest clubs
and fierce rivals are Fenerbahce and Galatasaray. Dyer meets two members of Fenerbahce's firm, KFY (Kill For You)
and learns of one of their supporters, nicknamed Rambo, who once broke into Galatasaray's Ali Sami Yen Stadium
with a Fenerbahce flag and a kebab knife. He then meets Alpaslan, the leader of Galatasarays UltrAslan Ultras group.
Dyer speaks with them about their hatred of Fenerbahce; and also their hatred of English fans, which had been exposed in 2000 when
two Leeds United fans were fatally stabbed in Istanbul at a UEFA Cup semi-final match against Galatasaray.
Episode 2 : Argentina
In Argentina, Dyer travels mainly around the capital city, Buenos Aires, meeting firms from all across the city and province.
Buenos Aires has the most football clubs in one city in the world. Rivalry and violence between fans is never far away.
First is the Avellaneda derby (Club Atletico Independiente vs Racing Club de Avellaneda), in the port town of Avellaneda
in the Greater Buenos Aires (belonging to the Buenos Aires Province). This match was played in the stadium of Independiente
(Libertadores de America). Dyer is taken to the popular of the stadium, a stand said to be so crazy,
that even the police will allegedly not enter it. Before the game, Dyer spoke with Pablo "Bebote" (Big baby) Alvarez,
the leader of the Los Diablos Rojos (The Red Devils), the barra brava of Independiente; and entered to the stadium with him.
Episode 3 : Italy
Italy has a reputation for football violence, in part due to the Ultras culture. Dyer firstly travels to Turin,
and meets the Drughi Ultras from Juventus. The Drughi are named after the Droogs in the cult film A Clockwork Orange.
Dyer speaks with members of the Drughi about the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985, and is told of Juventus fans hatred of all English
football fans.
Dyer then briefly travels to Bergamo in Lombardy, and meets a top member of Atalanta B.C.'s Curva Nord Ultras.
Dyer then goes to Rome and attends the biggest derby in Italian football, the Derby della Capitale, between S.S. Lazio and A.S. Roma.
The two teams share the Stadio Olimpico, with Lazio fans using the Curva Nord as their home stand, and Roma fans
using the Curva Sud as their home stand. In the first half, Dyer stands in the Curva Sud with Roma's ultras,
where before kick off, Roma legend Marco Delvecchio comes and greets the fans in the stand.
At half time Danny goes round to the other side of the stadium to experience the derby from the Curva Nord with Lazio's Irriducibili ultras.
Lazio end up winning the match 3-0, sparking wild celebrations in the Curva Nord.
Episode 4 : Croatia and Serbia
In his trip to the Balkans, Dyer visits both Croatia and Serbia who fought one of the bloodiest wars in recent European history.
A war which some believe began with the riot between fans of (Croatian club) Dinamo Zagreb and (Serbian club)
Red Star Belgrade in May 1990. In Croatia he attends the biggest match in their footballing calendar, Hajduk Split vs Dinamo Zagreb
in Split. He then sets off on a road formerly known as the Road of Brotherhood and Unity into Serbia,
where he meets Partizan Belgrade’s hardcore Grobari (the Grave Diggers) ultras.
Exclusive access is seen of a Grobari party, which involves food, drink, drugs, karaoke, and guns.
One of the songs featured in this episode is AC/DC's Back in Black when showing highlights of the Grobari party.
Episode 5 : Netherlands
The Dutch are famous for their tolerant culture and liberal attitude to sex and drugs.
Dyer begins his journey in Amsterdam where he takes in the cosmopolitan life of the capital. But Danny soon learns that
Holland has a dark underbelly as he starts his journey into its fierce and secretive hooligan culture.
Whilst in Amsterdam he has a secret meeting with the F -Side Firm of AFC Ajax. He learns about Ajax’s long standing
rivalry with Feyenoord hooligans from Rotterdam which has seen bombings and even murder.
He then travels to Rotterdam where he experiences, De Klassieker (The Classic) derby, Feyenoord against Ajax - the biggest game
in Holland. We see how drugs and weapons have fueled their rivalries which have seen the firms battle around the football ground
and even at clubs and raves. Dyer then travels to The Hague to find out how the rivalries have intensified with arson attacks
and the difficulties the police have in controlling the spread of hooliganism. His final destination is Utrecht where he finds out
about the hooligans' power and influence within clubs. He meets the Utrecht firm who have a base within the football club.
It becomes apparent that many of the firms are deeply embedded in the clubs and violence has become a part of Dutch culture.
Episode 6 : Brazil
Brazil is considered to be one of the most violent societies in the world; a society with a high murder rate.
Brazilian football is rife with passion and brutality. In Rio de Janeiro Dyer visits the Raca Rubro Negra,
a Torcida group from Flamengo. He learns that in Brazil the firms are waging war, with guns and shootings commonplace.
In Porto Alegre he meets one more torcida group, Geral do Gremio of Gremio, and he attends a game between
the team and Flamengo. In Sao Paulo he meets the torcida group, Mancha Verde (Green Stain) of Palmeiras who he travels
with to Rio de Janeiro. During the trip gun violence is experienced first hand as they come under fire from a rival group from Botafogo.
In Sao Paulo he also meets the Hawks of the Faithful (gavioes da fiel in portuguese) which is the second biggest firm in Brazil.
Episode 7 : Poland
During this film Dyer visits Poland, a country which has been saddled with the yoke of oppression throughout its history.
At the beginning of his journey, he heads to Gdansk where he meets Lechia's supporters Chuligani Wolnego Miasta - a firm
that helped to abolish the communist regime. He then travels on to Krakow to sample the The Holy War (pol. Swieta Wojna)
- the Krakow derby between Cracovia and Wisla. First he meets one of Cracovia hooligans groups - Anty Wisla, later he meets Sharks
(main of Wisla's hooligans firm). On October 28, 2006 Danny could experience what The Holy War really is.
On the stadium, a fight broke out between Cracovia hooligans and thepolice. During the 18 months leading up the derby,
eight fans have died due to football-related violence in Krakow, a city also ominously known, in hooligan circles,
as The City of Knives. Dyer wanted to talk with two main groups of Polish ultras - Legia's TB'95 and Lech's LPH,
but they refused to meet with television. Danny leaves Poland reflecting on a country whose football violence problem appears to be
stuck in a 1980s time warp.
Episode 8 : Russia
In Russia, Dyer visits Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Whilst in Moscow it quickly becomes apparent that it is a city
which is out of the ordinary. Moscow has its own rules, and beneath its exterior it becomes apparent that anything goes.
He meets Vasilli the Killer the leader of Spartak Moscow's Gladiators firm. Whilst in Russia his fame from the film,
Football Factory precedes him when outside a game he is mobbed. He learns that the CSKA Moscow
(Galland Steeds Firm, leader - "CashPoint") and Spartak firms went to watch the film together in the same cinema,
and to celebrate they took to the streets for a fight afterwards. He also meets a female hooligan, a unique experience on his travels
around the world.
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