{"product_id":"the-football-factory-john-king-9780099731917","title":"The Football Factory","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The best book I've read about football and working-class culture in Britain in the nineties. Buy, steal or borrow a copy now'\n\u003cbr\u003eIrvine Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Football Factory centres on Tom Johnson, a reasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. We are shown the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex - and, perhaps more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGraphic and disturbing, sometimes very funny, and deeply affecting throughout, The Football Factory is a vertiginous rush of adrenaline - the most authentic book yet on the so-called English Disease.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John King","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48390312362227,"sku":"9780099731917","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780099731917.jpg?v=1768590459","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-football-factory-john-king-9780099731917","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}