Danny Dyer, star of Severence, Human Traffic and The Business, returns to the small screen with his brand new documentary series; ‘Real Football Factories International’, exclusive to and premiering on Bravo on 21st May 2007.

Following on from the acclaimed first series ‘The Real Football Factories’, which aired in 2006, Dyer embarks on a journey across Europe and South America, taking in some of the most bitterly fought derby clashes, both on and off the pitch. In each episode Dyer meets the firms behind the World’s most famous football clubs as he tracks down the top boys from Rome to Rio, from Buenos Aires to Belgrade, exploring their culture and learning about their music, fashion, food and drink.

Traveling to Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Poland, Holland, The Balkans and Russia, Danny Dyer gets inside the minds behind the most violent foreign firms and meets their most aggressive members.

I’ve got to say Mr Dyer has nailed this football culture presenting, I’ve seen some dodgy choices made on other similar shows and a few people thought Danny a bit OTT in the first series but he steps up here in my eyes and leads the line well and has a right wicked lads sense of humor. Danny is more himself presenting this series and I think he had to be for this was no meeting British hooligans around the coffee table number. It was full on in every country he went to. Its happening with these people and the producers pitched him with firms that I personally would have thought twice about meeting.

CROATIA AND SERBIA Football, George Orwell remarked, is war without the bullets. In the Croatian capital of Zagreb Danny discovers that in the former Yugoslavia football was war with bullets. Danny’s journey from Split in Croatia to Belgrade in Serbia reveals two countries whose fierce nationalism, fueled at football games, was a catalyst for the civil war which broke up Yugoslavia. And now 14 years later that football violence is a tough habit to kick.

This is a good piece of homework by the show as we know plenty of Poland and others being proper mental but this lot are sinister, I’ve meet a few of these firm members as they come over here and work security around the likes of Camden, I also bump into a few at Cockney Rejects gigs but the impression they leave with me was when the Croatians sporting blacken faces stormed the English off the underground in the middle of Lisbon during the Euros 2004. They are a sinister lot and with their past it’s not surprising so I will be watching this show with personal interest myself.

HOLLAND Dutch games don’t come much nastier than Feyernord V Ajax. Danny travels to Rotterdam to attend the game; a journey which takes him into the dark side of Dutch football hooliganism. It’s a world far removed from the liberal and tolerant Dutch society. Differences of opinion between the rival firms of Ajax, Feyernoord, Utrecht and Den Hague are settled with arson, stabbings and murder.

This is more normal as we can relate to the Dutch firms more and also they are not dissimilar to our selves with the in-house shit and all the bickering on yer rivals. Where I say they differ is where we stick to our scene involving just football the Dutch boys seem to get their underworld crews involved so it all gets kinda heavy with serious tit-for-tat wars that are forever on-going. Some of the characters you would larf at but not to their faces when you hear what they really do to each other with guns and bombs and heavy shit like that.

POLAND Tensions between football fans run high in Poland. Saturday resembles England in the 80s - pitch invasions, terrace wars and, an added Polish twist, forest fighting. In Gdansk local hooligans claim that Solidarity started on the terraces. But in Krakow politics takes a back seat to a good old fashioned ruck. At the ‘Holy War’, the local derby between Wisla Krakow and Krakovia, Danny witnesses the madness at first hand. When the Wisla fans burn Krakovia shirts at half time, the Krakovia fans explode and the game descends into a full blown riot.

Yes, the one we expect to be proper mental and the show don’t disappoint on the bits I’ve seen of it your be wanting to freeze-framing plenty as the mad Poles never let This is justarts going off everywhere and the old bill are having it tOnce again the show is well put together and goes further in trying to make sense of it yet stills tells us what we have come to know now that these Poles with there mad dress sense are just that , mad.

RUSSIA In Russia, Danny samples one of the most active hooligan cultures in Europe. He visits Moscow and St Petersburg, where he learns about the firms of CSKA, Spartak Moscow and Zenit. He meets CSKA's female hooligan members and is introduced to the leader of Spartak's firm, the intimidatingly-named Vasilli The Killer. He also learns about the Russian hooligans' notion of fair play on the battlefield - no weapons, same numbers, may the best hooligan win...

This is one I don’t want nobody to miss, forget the Poles for a minute because after watching this you know the Russians are coming and the FA might do well to consider a banning order amnesty because the normal England members are in for a rude awakening come September when England go to Moscow. It is said we England fans are paying for a past reputation today, well watch this and put yer ticket for Moscow on Ebay cos even their women are waiting and training for yer.

ARGENTINA Argentineans are reputed to be the snobs of South America. But they are not adverse to a bit of old fashioned football violence. Danny encounters the deep hatred between rival teams in Buenos Aires and attends one of the bitterest derbies in Argentina - Independiente V Racing Club. The match violence becomes so extreme the game is called off at half time. Before the tear gas has cleared the repercussions and recriminations of the riot begin, exposing the rotten core of Argentine football – a world of political graft, corruption and extreme violence.

Well this is a different level and the film crew that wanna take Danny out to there are as mad as the crews they are filming. This is not the world of the football casual and they get it right when the end product shows political influence, corruption and extreme violence, once again expect powerful stuff.

BRAZIL Danny discovers the dark side behind the Brazilian myth of ‘Sex, Samba and Soccer’ when he attends a match between Gremio and Flamengo, experiencing at first hand the fearsome Gremio hooligans terrace rampage – ‘The Avalanche’. But this is nothing compared to the violence that occurs in other parts of the country. The film crew travels to Rio de Janeiro on a Mancha Verde bus, the feared firm of Sao Paulo’s Palmeiras club. On the return leg of the journey their bus comes under gun fire from a car load of Botafogo hooligans…crouched on the floor of the bus we discover that football in Brazil really is a matter of life and death.

You will see plenty of publicity for this series of shows but tell you what it’s not needed, word of mouth we do the rest. This is as about as real as you wanna go for in the first series putting together Millwall, West Ham. Rangers, Celtic whatever did not require body armour. I spoke with the film crew member who was fired upon on that bus and he said He thought it was strange when their police escort suddenly decided to tail off as they came into a certain area. When all hell broke loose I said did you film any off it and he said Cass, the windows were shot through, we’ve hit the deck and our hosts are firing back like wild west time. With that I didn’t ask any further questions and like you I will be wanting to watch that when it comes on.

TURKEY If having an active hooligan scene is a pre-requisite to joining the EU then Turkey should be a shoe-in. Danny attends the famous Istanbul Derby between Fenerbahce & Galatasary - a game surrounded by fierce nationalistic passion and the fanatical allegiance of its fans. Danny speaks to supporters that are prepared to live and die for the sport. At the match as the tear gas swirls and the rubber bullets fly, Danny learns the true meaning of ‘Welcome to Hell’.

Turkey is one place I had to hold my hands up and say I think it is impossible to get a path into what they are all about. I had personally been book researching the two main Istanbul teams they cover and was convinced that it’s a national thing with these rather than a club firm thing. The club rivalry is serious and Turkey is a big big country so the supporters are like Man U and are spread all over it. The producers went out and proved me wrong and got Danny in to their firms. So I will look forward to seeing what they come up with as I have been told I will find it very interesting considering the history of what has gone on their.

ITALY The Rome Derby is the highlight of the Italian Football calendar, and it’s a date eagerly anticipated by the hooligans on both sides. Danny attends the Roma game to experience the madness at first hand. In Torino he meets the Droogi – Juventus’ notorious firm, named after the ultra violent gang in A Clockwork Orange. But that homage is where the Droogi’s love of merry old England ends. At the Droogi bar we learn that they have 39 reasons to hate Englishmen. They haven’t forgiven or forgotten Heysel, and Danny’s welcome is anything but warm.

I have seen the final edit and this is the Daddy and is quality piece of documentary making that if this had cinema release you would pay to watch it, that said don’t miss the Italian show of the series. They live their football scene fanwise like we did back in the 70’s and 80’s and there is plenty of firms to chose from what they call Ultras so the show could have got the firms wrong but they don’t and unearth a real top in the Italian ultras-firm that are the nearest to our own football casuals in interviewing the charismatic leader of the Bergamo boys that follow Atlanta.