They return home only to find that their cars have been smashed up. Bex, along with Dom and some other members of the West Ham firm, go back later and ambush a Millwall fan as he leaves the pub, beating him half to death with lead pipes. As a result, the surprise attack fails and they suffer a humiliating defeat. Millwall fights back with weapons and largely outnumbers them. Dom also gets invited to Crystal Palace on the weekend, but the firm end up going to Millwall to launch a surprise attack on the Millwall firm instead. Bex then visits him at work the next day and tells him to stand up for himself, and invites him to a night club. Feeling forlorn, Dom leaves the pub and doesn't go the game. Soon after arriving, he is harshly ridiculed in front of everyone by a drunken Trigger for wearing the same tracksuit as Bex. When the rest of the firm lick their hands and rub off the symbol that is on their arms he realises that it is a joke.ĭom goes to the Lord Nelson to meet up with the boys. Bex pulls out a Stanley knife and starts to engrave on Dom's arm. Bex says he has to get blooded first, which means he has to get the firm's symbol engraved on his forearm. Bex asks Dom if he would like to go to Europe, and Dom agrees. Some of the firm go to Bex's house to talk about the possible national firm. Dom later meets Jay, and the two go to the sports shop and steal a load of gear. Dom sees Tel who criticises his tracksuit, but Dom tells him that he is part of the West Ham firm now. During the brawl, Dom is punched in the face but stays on his feet and punches back.īex visits Dom at work and tells him to not make any plans for the weekend. Police arrive and try to break up the two teams. When they get there they meet the Portsmouth firm at the pub. Saturday comes and the firm are at the station getting a train to Portsmouth. The pitch fails, with Millwall and Portsmouth's top boys refusing to stand behind Bex in the national firm unless he and his firm can beat theirs in the upcoming meets. Bex walks in on the meeting to pitch his idea of the three firms coming together to form a national firm for the UEFA European Football Championship. Trigger, the firm's second-in-command, visits Bex at work, where he tells him that Millwall's firm and Portsmouth's firm are meeting to discuss the up-and-coming matches between the three teams. 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. Plot īex is the leader of the West Ham United football firm, that travels up and down the country to fight other firms. 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'. 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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But as Bex and his gang clash with rival firms across the country and the violence spirals out of control, Dom realizes he wants out - until he learns it's not that easy to simply walk away.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. Accepted by the gang for his fast mouth and sense of humor, Dom soon becomes one the boys. Set in the 1980s, Dom is a teenager who finds himself drawn into the charismatic world of football 'casuals,influenced by the firm's top boy, Bex.