The same happens with our neo-nazis and KKK members (as well as with racists in general), here. Stupid, ignorant, indefensible behavior that never does anything but hurt everyone exposed to it and even when the participants reform it’s often too late because the kids have picked it up…
It’s troubling.

For whatever reason, I’d have never guessed that drugs were involved in firm activity…naive, maybe, but the connection just wasn’t there mentally. The way the whole thing is represented here is just that these guys either get worked up over the actual games and riot (which is the only time we ever hear the term ‘hooligans’ in that sense) or over turf and reputation with football as the excuse or rallying point or however you’d like to phrase it, in the case of firms. And that’s definitely the representation in Green Street Hooligans. In fact, it doesn’t seem like there’s a single drug reference in the movie, though there’s plenty of drinking, which made sense. In the film, it’s solely about reputation and then naturally, vendetta.