As a genuine football fan who loves watching and playing the game I decided to watch this series to get an insight into the minds of hooligans that threaten to ruin our great game every day.

I remember all the problems in the 1980's when English fans were bad and the outrage I felt personally when we were banned from Europe for a number of years. It wasn't that I felt annoyed about, it was the hooligans that were just going to games to cause trouble and not even wanting to watch the football. It spoils it for everyone else and that's what happened.

Once such time that really shook me was the Ireland v England friendly game when English so called fans started throwing seats down on the Irish fans below and the game was ultimately abandoned. This mindless violence when I was growing up with the game was part and parcel of how things were then. However until seeing this series you always felt as that's all you were subjected to, that English fans were the worst and the only fans to cause trouble.

The Real Football Factories International is a documentary style programme about football hooliganism across the world. and is presented by Danny Dyer. In this series, Dyer goes international, meeting firms from across the globe.

In 'The Real Football Factories International', Dyer visits Turkey, Argentina, Italy, Croatia and Serbia, The Netherlands, Brazil, Poland and Russia.

It is fascinating and a little scary to see the groups that are set up across the globe for these games intent on hooliganism. Fans will actually meet at pre-arranged venues to riot and fight with each other.

I for one find it amazing that some of these countries have escaped punishment for so many years and it would be nice to think that one day this terrible stigma associated to football is gone as it gives the real fans a bad name