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His essays, "On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist," and his autobiographical work, "The Hooligan's Return," are remarkable works, describing the Romanian regime and Manea's struggles against it.
As the old saying goes, "rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen; football is a gentlemen's game played by hooligans".
The only thing that killed them was the BBC, who axed their idea for a fourth series, an adaption of their live show spinoff, Hooligan's Island.
For a reader that memoir, "The Hooligan's Return," may reproduce the problem of the protagonist of "The Castle": how to get in.
Shortly before Manea visited Romania, in 1997, for the first time since his emigration — the "Hooligan's Return" referred to in his memoir's title — he had a nightmare, one of many, about his mother.
It's slightly less wieldy and a lot thirstier – but it's also hilarious fun, its exhaust crackling like Krakatoa, its tail-out cornering stance a hooligan's delight if the mood takes you.
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It's Eminem's undeniable ear for the "music" of the language ("I'm just a hooligan who's used to using hallucinogens... ......), however, which ensures that – love him or hate him – the real Slim Shady still stands up.
Ferdia, the novel's teenage narrator, discovers that his mother, Annie, has hooked up with the 22-year-old cousin of a local hooligan; Ferdia's dad has already run off with an airheaded pop singer who is almost as young.
Other examples of this include archive footage of their hooligan element's past bad behaviour being shown, when disorder has occurred at other grounds, not involving them.
These include Thomas Vinterberg's version of Far from the Madding Crowd, Ben Wheatley's High-Rise, Sacha Baron Cohen's hooligan comedy Grimsby and Sam Taylor-Wood's adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.
In one of the funnier scenes in Nanfu Wang's documentary Hooligan Sparrow, Chinese women's rights activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a. Hooligan Sparrow) is sprawled on her bed, entertaining questions from the endless stream of journalists who have shown up at her apartment.
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