The Not-So-Beautiful Game | Detective

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It's high summer in the Italian beach resort of Rimini. But Garry Rogers isn’t on holiday. He’s working undercover, infiltrating some of Britain's most dangerous soccer hooligans as they enjoy the 1990 World Cup. Vanessa Kirby follows Garry into a violent world of booze, beatings and naked belligerence as he walks a thin line between lawman and thug. Could YOU handle the pressure? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Tim Mansel. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.0	I just stood against the wall because I didn't know what direction things were being thrown at me from.
0:38.8	And I lads stood next to me, or I didn't know.
0:40.8	I heard him moan, and when I looked, I rockered it in the face, and he just went down to the floor.
0:46.0	This is True Spies.
0:49.2	Episode 44.
0:50.8	They're not so beautiful, game.
0:58.0	When I'd been trained as an undercover officer, they didn't set up a riot like that and say,
1:02.8	this is what's going to happen to you.
1:04.8	That was all new to me.
1:06.4	I could have been the lad who got the brick in the face.
1:09.6	And that could have been the end of my career then.
1:11.6	Episode 44.
1:15.6	It's the summer of 1990 in the Italian Beach Resort of Rimini.
1:22.8	But Gary Rogers isn't on holiday.
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