based on the best selling novel by john king, ‘the football factory’ is a study of middle england, football violence and male culture. the story centres around tommy johnson, a bored twenty something who lives for the weekend, casual sex, watered down larger, heavily cut drugs…and occasionally kicking the f*ck out of someone. tommy’s life ambles along until a violent encounter with a rival firm top boy starts a tit for tat war and a series of nightmares that force him to ask himself the question about his life: is it worth it? told through tommy’s eyes and linked together by his relationships with three other generations of males, the football factory is a drug fuelled adrenaline rush of a story about friendship, revenge and violence. tommy’s life ambles along until a violent encounter with a rival firm top boy starts a tit for ta war and a series of nightmares that force him to ask himself the question about his life: is it worth it? told through tommy’s eye and linked together by his relationships with three other generations of males. the football factory is a drug fuelled adrenaline rush of a story about friendship, revenge and violence.
