Having grown up at a time when the sport hit the front pages of the newspapers – and for all the wrong reasons –Harsent revisits the key players from the world of football hooliganism.
Moving on from The Beautiful Game and the theatres in which the drama of football is played out, Simon Harsent’s powerful portrait study, GBH, examines a section of the supporting cast who, occasionally, took centre stage.
Having grown up at a time when the sport hit the front pages of the newspapers – and for all the wrong reasons –Harsent revisits the key players from the world of football hooliganism.
GBH, like Harsent’s earlier work, such as Melt and The Road Not Taken, focuses on how we map our life’s journey by the paths we take and, by extension, how these choices come to define us.
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