November 21, 2002
Daily Star
Dougray's so casual
by Gavin Docherty

HIBS' most famous fan is switching sides - to become an ENGLISH hooligan!

Hollywood pin-up Dougray Scott will pull on his Doc Martens to play a Chelsea thug in a new film about the darker side of the beautiful game. The Fife-born Mission Impossible and Enigma actor is to star in The Football Factory, which has just gone into production in the UK.

Dougray will juggle his commitments to star in the new project as well as the Scottish crime caper Bum's Rush, which he will produce as well as appear in a cameo role.

Tough guy Sean Bean and ex-Bad Manners singer Buster Bloodvessel will also appear in the movie which has been adapted from the best-selling novel by John King, whose savage true tales of football violence sent shockwaves through English soccer.

The film's central character, Tom, is a vicious soccer casual who lives for the Saturday pre-and-post-match violence.

His club colours and getting steamed in to the rival fans on a match day are more important than his family, his job and the score of the game.

The raw descriptions of violence and sex resulted in King's work becoming a cult novel among soccer fans.

The film is shooting for five weeks in London and South Africa.

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