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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
To the Apollo Cinema in the West End for the press screening of Green Street, a mainstream US-financed film, directed by former German kick-boxing champion Lexi Alexander, about West Ham's hooligan gang, the Inter City Firm.
Green Street is the name of the road that runs down the hill from Upton Park underground station to West Ham's Boleyn Ground. Unsurprisingly, West Ham football club likes to distance itself from the infamous ICF. So before allowing crowd scenes to be shot inside the stadium, assurances were given that 'Inter City Firm' would be changed to the rather pathetic 'Green Street Elite' or GSE, and, more disingenuously, that the film was going to be called 'Yank'.
I was half-an-hour late. Not a...
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