Football, a game of passion, rivalry and loyalty.

But decades ago, beneath the cheers and the chance,

lay a different kind of warfare called hooliganism.

On a match day, everyone was your enemy.

We'll uncover the brutal, bloody battles where punching below the belt was a way of life.

It was just a die of my him. Gangster presents hooligans.

They were destroying the football club.

The game I alone.

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The 5th of October, 1941. an internment camp about 30 kilometres outside Paris.

Locked inside a windowless wooden hut, a 16-year-old boy held his breath.

He listened for any sound of human movement.

He was handcuffed with his hands behind his back.

Hearing nothing, the boy slowly began to contort his body.

He could put his hands by the legs, by the bottom, and pass them in front of him.

His arms now in front of him, the boy gritted his teeth and ripped his hands out of the handcuffs.

His skin tore, joints cracked.

Trembling with the pain, refusing to scream, he felt around in the pitch dark.

He took one nail from the cell which was in wood, and with it he could open the cell.

Using his handcuffs as a wedge, the boy forced a small gap between the two planks.

He wedged it, wider and wider, then began to squeeze himself through it.

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