Cass: Just another football hooligan movie?

Following our post on the Inter City Firm last week, EPL Talk have brought to our attention a new film, released in the UK on Friday, based around the famous West Ham “firm.”

Titled “Cass,” the movie focuses on Cass Pennant who was the first hooligan put behind bars in the post-Heysel crackdown initiated by Maggie Thatcher. It is based on the book written by Cass Pennant, also titled “Cass.”

(Pennant is interviewed in the documentary “Hooligan” from 1985 that we linked to last week, it can be seen here.)

The movie, featuring actor Nonso Anozie, is not just about football hooligans, it focuses on Cass, who is an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by a white couple in 1950s London. In the words of Pennant: “My life is the story of a certain section of British society, about race, class, music and fashion and the friendships that cut across those divides.”

It is questionable whether another football hooligan movie is really needed following I.D, Green Street Hooligans etc… A trailer for the movie can be seen here and a Sky News review of the film can be read here.