20 best soccer movies with their posters and trailers

5. Green Street Hooligans (2005)

A young American gets caught up with a

firm

The 3rd movie about hooliganism in football, in our list, tells the story of a young American college student played by Elijah Wood who is smitten with a violent firm associated with West Ham United.

Elijah Wood plays Matt Buckner, a student of journalism at Harvard University who gets expelled because cocaine is discovered in his room. However, the cocaine actually belonged to Jeremy Van Holden, his roommate. Matt keeps silent in fear of the Van Holden’s who are a powerful family and Jeremy offers Matt $10000 to buy his silence.

Distraught over what to do, Matt takes the money and goes to London to visit his sister Shannon and her husband Steve Dunham. There he meets Steve’s brother Pete, a Cockney lad who heads the Green Street Elite, a football firm which organises fights after matches.

The story goes on to describe how Matt falls in with the Green Street Elite and gets involved in hooliganism, a very commonplace practice in English football nowadays. This film teaches us how the vulnerable members of society are trapped in a web of violence in numerous ways, and not everything about football is very beautiful.