Football Fight Club ; Her Hooligans Aren't Heroes, Says Green Street Director Lexi Alexander. They Just Love a Good Ruck
Evening Standard - London › August 25, 2005
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THE knives were out for Green Street before filming began. Here was a movie about London football hooligans funded by US cash and starring doe-eyed Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood.
Worse, the film was to be written and directed by a young German woman making her feature debut.See the full content of this document
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Football Fight Club ; Her Hooligans Aren't Heroes, Says Green Street Director Lexi Alexander. They Just Love a Good Ruck
Stories came out that West Ham United had been duped into giving access to a film crew intent on glamorising violence, while Danny Dyer, star of last year's soccer-yob drama The Football Factory, declared that any film starring Wood would not be tough enough (hobbits being fairly useless in a post-match ruck).
The fact that Green Stre...See the full content of this document
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