British Cinema and The "Hooligan"

In British society nowadays football violance has pretty much been eradicated, but in british film it still lives on. This leaves the question "why?". its puzzling that the media would one momment condemn football violance and yet praise the latest adaption of hooliganism in the latest films, even more strange is that there are a lot of directors that will follow suite for this hunger. be it through admiration or curiosity is a social debate, the fact is that they are being made and more often then not they glorify what they are portraying.

The TV movie "The Firm" was made in 1988 and starred Gary Oldman as a football hooligan who wants to take his "Firm" into a european football tournament with other hooligans.
This movie was before the strand of typical hooligan movies came about. While garry oldman gives one of his best performances as the main character, this movie pretty much portrays the should be villains into heroes. The movie was made for channel 4 and because of that is seen as very limited, the violance is very blunt and too the point as well as shocking. The movie was hit with backlash by the media because it shows normal members of the public as workers in the week, turned hardcore hooligans by weekend and match day.