Green Street Hooligans: plot summary

Matt Buckner is expelled from Harvard University after some guards found cocaine under his bed, but it actually belongs to his roommate Jeremy. Matt is afraid to speak up because Jeremy comes from a wealthy and powerful family and is offered $10,000 for taking the blame. Matt accepts the money and uses it to visit his sister Shannon, her husband Steve and their son Ben in London. There, Matt meets Steve's brother, Pete, who leads the football hooligan firm – Green Street Elite (GSE). Here meets Matt Pete’s friends and his firm in their local pub and become friends with Matt, except of Pete's right-hand man, Bovver who doesn’t like Matt. Matt gets very close with those guys and becomes a member. One day a member of the GSE sees Matt meeting his father and a journalist for The Times, for lunch. They assume Matt is a "journo". Bovver tells this to Pete. Steve goes to the pub to warn Matt and discover that Steve is the founder and former leader of the GSE “The Major", who retired from football hooliganism after seeing the death of Tommy's 12-year-old son in a fight. Bovver secretly informs Tommy and the Millwall firm of Steve. Pete angrily confronts Matt in the bathroom over his identity as a "journo" right before the Millwall firm then crash the pub. Tommy confronts Steve and stabs him in the neck with a broken bottle, telling him that if he dies tonight then they are both even. Bovver, who had been knocked unconscious by Tommy's right-hand man, helps get Steve to the hospital where Pete talks about Bovver for his betrayal. Shannon decides to return to Boston for safety. The to firms decide to meet up and end this fight were Pete dies saving his family.