A Day with Florida’s Only Football Hooligan

what I'm looking to do is make a name in

the hooligan game you understand

Miami us a verse of Millwall brother I'm

gonna shut you guys down you understand

what you get brother you think it's all

a game I like football

it's good clean fun back in the a is it

slightly less clean though with British

teams having extremely violent gangs

called firms associated with it a fav

thing was to meet up after the game and

beat the living out of each other

in fact this became the main event it's

evolved into the casual subculture

because own music and clothes involving

lads battering each other in smart Fred

Perry shirts to the sounds of awe Punk

its luckily waned in the UK a long time

ago but there is one man across the pond

in sunny Miami whose life's work has to

single-handedly revived and transplant

British hooligan scene into America

Derrick Diablo Alvarez made waves online

for uploading his unusual videos calling

out firms from Millwall Chelsea and

Lincoln claiming he was part of a firm

called the Miami casuals and getting

absolutely seen off in the comments

section for doing so mr. Millwall so

called mr. hooligan so called mr.

thought boy he hosts his own cooking

show called hooligan kitchen all the

while he brags about his own firm how in

Miami

the only problem Miami doesn't have a

football team yeah and Derrick has never

been to brown once just think yourselves

as coaches

my American hooligan League brother and

I'm not sure he really likes football at

all just to shout in my so is it

possible to export British football

violence into the US with the

family-friendly NBA style soccer culture

be converted into a violent hellscape of

Aquascutum and bleeding faces we flew

out to Florida to meet Derek of the

Miami casuals and go to the nearest

football game he can find in Orlando and

a bid to discover whether the US was the

new site of football hooliganism we are

in Miami to me Diablo or Derek or mr. d

master dd1 a man of many names and we're

here to find out more about the football

violence firm that he's starting here in

a city that doesn't have its own

football team yet hello

hi you must be here for D hi yeah the

only thing is he's sleeping so I don't

know if you want to maybe try getting

him up if he wakes up swinging the

better you hit me Derek hey man

ok dark

let's go F advice from a documentary if

you're about you need to do this Cuban

mama stuff D Derek Derek Derek hi thank

you is you go 5 so what's your guys deal

we've been working closely for about two

years you know it's a professional

relationship but I mean we're friends I

just knew I was like man this is a

phenomenon I'm very sure okay

are you sure he needs a coffee yeah okay

tresorit recipe alright now your cameras

get to see the greatest article on this

planet the man above all of the men from

UK

us before your eyes the James Brown of

hooliganism

the hardest-working man in the game

that's me Diablo yeah

take those cameras off me till I'm ready

hey ma'am go show on ha ha right I'm

awake now that you're awake you ready

yeah I've been looking at all your

Kluber while you finish whoa hey for

America oh yeah what about that combo

jack

you see that Danny ah hey that guy Danny

done it you heard of them

I'm aware what America you know bikini

buddy I've been ahead of the trend since

day one oh jeez Sambas you see that you

haven't even worn once

Manchester United vaguely I wore them a

lot of time I just weren't careful they

call the tiger

you know I turn man I should I will

check so Quito is important the dynamic

between Derek and I is very patient

babysitter versus kid who just drank

tango so if you ever see someone walking

around dressed like this you don't

deserve to wear the clapper

if you don't know football first thing I

must say work firm you support okay you

don't know the firm I'm taking your

stuff women like you're taking their

clothes off a mister maybe this is

breakfast with a little breakfast Stella

yeah what's gonna be it

I am I am I am IMF and feeling a touch

confused I would say that's the limit of

how I'm feeling right now I have to

actually I can't tell whether more

business gonna help or hinder what's

going on it might slow things down a

little bit so I can keep up and might

speed him up you never know ya later

mate

I don't sorry hey doing that it was

something about seeing a skinhead biting

the calf of his Guinness and shouting

English style football chants on the

streets of Miami that just didn't feel

right

from Pele in the 70s to beckon in the

nor he's the world's best players have

failed to make football properly take

off in the US and we're it existed it

was mainly a family day out so I didn't

know how Diablo was gonna create a

hardened firm of nutters here in Miami

especially without a team so how did the

casual thing start

I just wanted to claim casuals Miami

casuals as a transition from punk to

Skinner to casual it's very natural and

you dress better and you'll stick at the

OB okay that I'm very interested in what

your definition of a football hooligan

is a football hooligan is one who not

merely loves football but who has an

extreme a fanatical passion who's

willing to fight for their territory

when you got the red clobber and you

know your culture and you move into a

city with the intention esteem in your

way and taking that pub wrecking the

local firm haven't you say having a

laugh now that my brother is football

games so I suppose the thing you're

passionate about as part of your

hooliganism isn't necessarily a club or

one club or a British culture it's a

British outlook yeah it's the English

disease the British play against has

been said okay do you need a club to be

able to do that

Who am I to say I would like Jesus

I'm achieved mclubbe ER and i'ma make a

video ft a while Derek got changed

I wondered which Titan of English

football he was gonna call out this time

Stoke so cool again to all hooligans

worldwide are ultra all bar arawa's all

football casuals it don't matter what

firm you from mate I feel like I can add

another chapter to this thing though

we'll see how it goes smash there in one

I've how do it everything is all

apologies to one take one aim straight

out but after a pretty intense

introduction to Miami football culture

the next day Derek invited me to his

nearby dojo where after the early

evening class where he teaches violent

martial arts 2-8-2 turns

he and his top lads were planning to

brutally initiate a new recruit into

their firm it might look like a simple

martial arts class but these are the top

boys of the Miami casuals firm so first

up we've got playboy a Colombian X Games

- who can't close his fist all the way

on account of the amount of people he's

battered in the face with it he's not

good at all much John the Greek and his

lake care they fight their jiu-jitsu

with a side of Green Street man well the

bloke hoping to be initiated today is

over from a hardened firm in Spain and

finally vest Cody is about nine feet

tall and I don't have any further trivia

for these are your top boys okay you can

loosen form to it all right here we go

he's from beauty's firm Sevilla Spain he

invited all of us any of us who wants to

do stuff like this to go they just went

to lapse you're some of the most feared

Nazi hooligans in the world

okay bow to each other

all right admission

I thought we turn up and see a load of

Americans in Stone Island loudly

battering each other with drain poems

but what we've seen so far tonight is

definitely just a martial arts class

still not quite sure what the Miami

casuals actually are or whether they

actually exists in Miami casual this

cool conclude training for today

Saturday we're going to Orlando city

versus NYC FC and then Sunday 3 p.m.

will gonna fight do the forest fight is

that clear all right stand up very good

how did that go well great

I've never seen Mel wells fighting

before I know he said all I know is he's

a violent ultra from another country who

who hit me up to come meet up with us

something like yeah you got a mean you

got a fight one of my guys that more or

less takes everybody out of it typically

tell us well snacks now the class is

over while we care do you now now we'll

go to the pub the most authentic British

restaurant and pub in all of Florida

let's get a pub yeah right okay

hope you guys all enjoyed yourself good

man thank you

these just rolled up inexplicably in a

completely different outfit to what he

left him well lads here we are

King said pub there's a top I seen so

much have it I saw it

hey love to a pint of bodies

hey to find your body

alright tomorrow was the big MLS game

Orlando vs. New York City FC this is the

closest match Diablo could find to his

team as Miami

it would feature two old rival firms so

promise to be spicy

best beer on the planet perhaps finally

Diablo could get the fight he was

clearly so horny for how many lads are

you expecting tomorrow from my firm yeah

I'm only going me in the Playboy okay I

don't want I don't want to have no

maniacs in that group they go off and do

something on their own and jeopardize

the reputation of the group and affect

us with MLS and so forth you know is it

quite difficult to get them to lean into

the football side of the coach

it's not gonna be difficult at all

because we're gonna have the best

football club in the world we're gonna

have this and also there's more

beautiful women here than anywhere else

isn't that like gonna be like you're in

the middle of a shitty town and sorry

and backwater England where it you know

the main thing is your firm all right a

buzzards gotta up at YFC haha

y FC Orlando City all the way and

you have nearly drive to Orlando so I

ducked our there before Derek performed

his set a wrap or a hybrid he describes

us cutthroat core in a back room at the

pub

I was disappointed to discover that only

one of the firm could make it to the big

away game but I was still excited to see

the football factory played out in the

home of Disneyland so far the

information we have is Derrick was going

to be sleeping at Playboy's house which

we are outside at the moment but then we

got a phone call from him literally when

we were in the car to play boys house

say he didn't sleep at Playboy's house

Playboy remember is the hooligan Nutter

who can't even close his own hand

because he's punched too many people

with it he's apparently the sober and

composed one so start with a

three-and-a-half hour road trip with

someone who could be described as quite

an erratic presence he's going I would

say medium to badly at the moment after

driving around for a while

including a weird detour where we took a

wordless playboy to the bank we finally

found the James Brown of hooliganism a

nearby petrol station another

inexplicable outfit change down and

carrying a load of driver don't get

lemon do you ever wonder what

their it would speak like if he never

got the football factory on DVD do you

expect to hit anyone today hopefully now

but if this double cost airline Bing

Bing Bing ba ba ba I'm not gonna relive

my experience fat car ride

EJ's daughter let's just say it lasted

three and a half hours Benicio del Toro

and when Derrick wasn't talking ain't no

love muffin he was controlling the

stereo but I get to sit there and there

are torture survivors who flinch less at

loud noises now than I do

[Applause]

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ha ha here we are

hey let's just hope for the best charlie

now quite a victory miss Deavers

promising that everyone here would be up

for a fire so so make up at the house

we've seen so far as for like most of

mums of children groups of smiley face

young women or intoxicated man I guess

very wholesome sports day vibe right now

yeah this is your land a massive array

to just kick their flip-flops off and

New York's taking us it's good

carnage out her absolute mayhem you're

about to meet Steven McKnight the

hardest casual in all of the land oh I

hope you're ready I'll turn it over to

Steve McKnight you understand I was

about 18 years old the first time that I

met Diablo I was wearing with all the

Puerto Rican skinheads up here in

Orlando the problem is there just wasn't

enough of us yeah you know the the the

Nazis they outnumbered us

constantly there's a couple of clubs in

America that have very right-wing

followings New York City FC and I want

actually one of them you expected us to

turn out today with New York City FC

it's it's always hard to tell once we

get into the stadium

we'll be able to put a little a better

gauge on it as we walked through

Orlando's Disney lights trees they

became more and more apparent that no

matter how for a fight Diablo was

rest of your land Oh City fans including

the world's least threatening axe Marine

there's a really good Thai place Rocchi

here for a nice day out where the poison

ran away to Amber Lee Wembley Wembley

what a pause and red and we're on I went

to Amber Lee now that's only song you

need to know he's taking some liberties

of the melody ever and I kind of rate it

we're actually on our way to Orlando see

Stadium a far cry from Wembley but

according to Diablo the site of an

imminent brutal war between a Nazi New

York firm and the fearsome Iowa sadly I

left my knuckle duster at home but

luckily had all two members of the Miami

casuals to defend me anyway we're ready

and just film cuz there they come

against us it's gonna be defensive but

my CFC to the beginning to the end

we gotta go baby

it's already a quarter till

MLS football is definitely an experience

the place had a sellout crowd with

everyone wearing team colors the way

section was about 50 people strong and

set up in the stands amongst the home

supporters and though the ILS was flat

opposite us the most violent thing they

seemed to do was set off field smoke

bomb after a goal but I suppose I was

most fascinated with Derek who didn't

particularly seem to care about the

football itself

he was making some gestures and starting

some Manu chance like it just read how

to be a hooligan Manuel

but someone who says he lives and

breathes football of Ireland's he seemed

particularly detached from the sport

itself the whole atmosphere is like

somewhere between Disney labs at an

actual football game it's the most safe

I felt that any people that in my life

there was not a micro particle a Grover

it's like trying to start a fistfight at

like hair and singing there as most of

the NY FC fans bow back to the family

friendly hotel and have stadium and

Wesley it became more and more apparent

to Diablo that he wasn't gonna get the

fight he dreamt of here today she were

yet nowhere look at the stadium you see

nothing anytime you want NYC FC you

it been a big day of not hearing

people in the face and Derek was all

tuckered out time to put the Diablo to

bed before I went at home I always have

a final chat with Diablo about whether

he really thought it was possible to

create his British football violence

utopia here in sunny Miami whether it

was entirely a fantasy played out online

I met Emma is big forest by which again

it was just use it but this time it was

outside after yesterday what I would ask

is are you trading for a five it's never

gonna happen

possibly so but in the meantime we have

the sport version we'll be number one in

hooliganism we'll be number one in

forest fighting no question I just got

to get everybody to know what it is and

there'll be that we just need more

exposure we can carry the tradition onto

the clothes to the clobber to the

language to the expression the slang the

rhyming slang if we asked ovo guys who

were fighting out here today if they're

in a firm would they say yes no they

don't all exactly know where the firm is

but they've seen the forest fights and

they seen regular hooligan fights it's a

tribute to that but done it in a modern

way that's what I feel that's why I like

the term Neil hooliganism being a

hooligan is subjective it's up to the

individual when they perceive it to be

sorry are you a hail okay uh I'll leave

that to your audience you know do you

think you've done enough to prove

yourself to British hooligans no what do

you have to do go to England and fight

from what I'd seen I really wasn't sure

whether Terris inspire culture of

football violence could ever be

translated to America beyond the clobber

the MLS is too glossy too fun and the

best player is Wayne Rooney I'm not sure

crowds of families and fans young and

old really want to swap out having a hot

dog for having a big scrap but if anyone

can make football hooliganism thrive

here in the US it's sure to be Diablo in

a way I hope he finds the fight he's

looking for out here and they also hope

that one day he comes to England and

someone tries to kick his head in I

think he'd really really like that

[Applause]

now besides that I ain't got too much to

say good night

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