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Dougie Brimson Born 1959 (age 51–52)
England, United KingdomOccupation Author, novelist Genres Football hooliganism, football, lad culture, casuals, comedy
dougiebrimson.comDougie Brimson (born 1959) is an English author and former football hooligan.[1] He has been dubbed the Yob Laureate.[1]
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Background
After 18 years service with the Royal Air Force, including both the Falklands War and the first Gulf War, the ex-Sergeant engineer’s literary career began in 1996 when he wrote a book based on his own experiences as a football casual entitled, Everywhere We Go: Behind the Matchday Madness. The book examined the culture of football and football hooliganism from the inside. A further ten books have followed and their success has established him as a leading authority on the issues of football and lad culture.
Brimson is a supporter of Watford F.C.[1] He was never arrested for hooliganism, and states that he stopped getting involved in match day violence when hooligans started using knives and clubs, adding "When they started filling squeezable Vicks bottles with ammonia, I just thought, that's enough, I'm out of this."[1]
Widely acknowledged as one of the most vocal anti-violence and anti-racism campaigners, Brimson has acted as an advisor to both the British government's working group into football disorder and the European Commission's football group. He has also written extensively for various magazines, newspapers and websites including The Sun, The Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, Loaded magazine, FourFourTwo magazine and Football 365.
In 2003 Brimson made the move into screenwriting with the short film "It's a Casual Life" which was a fifteen minute film looking at the world of football violence from a Casuals perspective.[2] His first full length feature, the Hollywood funded Green Street starring Elijah Wood, was released in September 2005 and has won numerous awards including:
- Narrative Jury Prize-SXSW Film Festival
- Narrative Feature Audience-SXSW Film Festival
- Best of Festival–Malibu Film Festival
- Jury Award (feature)–Malibu Film Festival
- Official Selection–Tribeca Film Festival
He currently has a number of screenplays at various stages of production with a variety of production companies in the UK, US and Canada. These include a biography of darts legend Leighton Reece (Mister One Hundred), a zombie based comedy (KillerWeed), a football comedy (Wings of a Sparrow), a drama about the war in Afghanistan and a new hooligan movie slated for filming in the summer of 2012.
Brimson has co-hosted a late night comedy show on Liberty Radio, presented The Stock Car Show on Granada Men & Motors and presented the Madder Max show, also on Granada Men & Motors, which examined the diverse world of British motor sport. It began transmission on 24 July 2000 and ran for thirteen consecutive weeks.[3] He also co-produced and presented the BriSCA Formula One Stock Car Show for Channel Five. He has also written and presented sports films for Bravo including The Basement.
Brimson, who has three children, is an active member of the British Legion and The Falklands War Veterans Association.[3]
Trivia
Green Street Hooligans, co-written by Brimson, was nominated for the William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie,[4] other nominated films were Neil Gaiman's and Dave McKean's MirrorMask, the award winning baseball documentary Up for Grabs and Opie Gets Laid.[5]
Bibliography
eBooks
- Brimson, Dougie (2011) (eBook). Billy's Log: The hilarious diary of one man’s struggle with life, lager and the female race. eBookpartnership.com. pp. 219. ISBN 978-1-908400-01-7. http://www.ebookpartnership.com/billys-log/.
- Brimson, Dougie (2011) (eBook). The Geezers' Guide To Football: A Lifetime of Lads and Lager. Category C Publishing. pp. 223. ISBN 978-0-9567221-9-5. http://www.ebookpartnership.com/the-geezers-guide-to-football/.
- Brimson, Dougie (2011) (eBook). Kicking Off: Why hooliganism and racism are killing football. Category C Publishing. pp. 352. ISBN 978-1-908400-06-2. http://www.categorycpublishing.co.uk/our-ebooks/#kicking.
Non-fiction
- Everywhere We Go: Behind the Matchday Madness (1996)
- England, My England: The Trouble with the National Football Team (1996)
- Capital Punishment: London's Violent Football Following (1997)
- Derby Days: Local Football Rivalries and Feuds (1998)
- The Geezers' Guide to Football: A Lifetime of Lads and Lager (1998)
- Barmy Army: The Changing Face of Football Violence (2000)
- Eurotrashed: The Rise and Rise of Europe's Football Hooligans (2003)
- Kicking Off: Why Hooliganism and Racism Are Killing Football (2006)
- Rebellion: The Growth of Football's Protest Movement (2006)
- March of the Hooligans: Soccer's Bloody Fraternity (2007)
Novels
- The Crew (1999)
- Billy's Log (2000)
- Top Dog (2001)
See also
- Screenwriters
- Lists of writers
References
- ^ a b c d "The allure of being a Casual". BBC News. 2003-08-19. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3162753.stm. Retrieved 2007-11-04.
- ^ Gray, Martin (2003). "It's A Casual Life: Movie review". Eye For Film. http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/reviews.php?film_id=10268. Retrieved 2007-11-04.
- ^ a b "Dougie Brimson writer profile". writers.net. http://www.writers.net/writers/6660. Retrieved 2007-11-04.
- ^ von Busack, Richard (March 8, 2006). "Sunnyvale". Metroactive. http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.08.06/sunnyvale-0610.html. Retrieved 2009-09-10.
- ^ Tyler, Joshua (January 10, 2006). "Shatner Gets His Own Award". Cinema Blend. http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Shatner-Gets-His-Own-Award-2037.html. Retrieved 2009-09-10.
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- Living people
- English novelists
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