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Awaydays is a film based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Sampson. Set in the post-punk era in the North West of England. Paul Carty (Nicky Bell) is 19, good-looking, funny, clever - and bored out of his mind. His mother died a year ago. He lives in middle class suburbia with his silently grieving father and feisty young sister, Molly. Carty works as a junior civil servant and spends all his wages on gigs, clubs, records and football. It's at a match that he meets Elvis (Liam Boyle).

Elvis changes everything. He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack is legendary; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the Boneheads and Bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Lacoste tennis shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis is offering him a way in...

trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPDoOVW1gXs


Looks class,there tranmere rovers fans by the way

Wont take much to beat green street 2. Looked like a really shit version of prison break...

Try looking up the film Cass.

Green St, Football Factory, Cas...... It's been done to death now....

ID was the best film of this genre.

looks like quadrophenia mashed into the football factory with a heavy dusting of this is england...

still stephen graham is pretty awesome, might be worth a dull tuesday evening.

load of shite... absolutely done to death...

"claret everywhere... pwopper large... bit naughty... " that arsehole Danny Dire (NOT a typo) has a fucking lot to answer for...

JMascis666 wrote:ID was the best film of this genre.

you're having a laugh. Both that & Green Street were pathetic attempts.
Football Factory was'nt much better.

The Firm is probably my pick but its still full of flaws.

Football hoolie 'culture' is something almost impossible to replicate on film in a proper realistic way, especially the match day build up, the game itself in & outside the grounds & the afters..those scenes in ID were just pathetic

Football hoolie films/books are shit

Obvisouly they'll keep on making them whilst there's a demand but they're getting progressively worse...see there's even an Italian film out now called 'Ultra'

I completely forgot about The Firm.

I am sticking by my ID comments, Shadwell Army !

books a good read

I think I.D. was the best type of these films probably the first to be released too