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 obvious place to begin is how are you, physically, mentally, where are you at?

Yeah, I'm in a good place, to be fair.

I'm a good three months ahead of where I should be.

I've lifted 130 KG on the leg and I'm trying to do other things and just trying to focus on myself.

So it is definitely a good place right now and mentally I'm in a good place too.

For people who don't know what surgery you had because you had a car accident in which you broke your leg, what surgeries have you had to have?

I've shattered my femur bone in four different places, so they've had to put the bone back together to try and keep it so they can knit back together.

And they say between six to 12 months before it starts healing properly. Let's rewind to how this began.

You had a traumatic experience in your words.

You had a car crash, which was a bad car crash.

How much can you remember of the day it happened?

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