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WATCH: Does Charlie Hunnam's Green Street accent sound any better ten years on?

Exactly a full decade ago, a fresh-faced Frodo Baggins left the Shire once more to go on a trip t...
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14.11 24 Sep 2015


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WATCH: Does Charlie Hunnam's Green Street accent sound any better ten years on?

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14.11 24 Sep 2015


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Exactly a full decade ago, a fresh-faced Frodo Baggins left the Shire once more to go on a trip to a land far, far, far ... far away.

That of course is the East End of London and not Mordor, as Elijah Wood took on the role of a young American who falls in with a crowd of West Ham hooligans in what became cult classic, Green Street or Green Street Hooligan as they call it in America.

That 2005 movie is the most well-known of the football hooligan movie genre and it was one of the films we looked back at on Team 33 this week - as well as the ones starring Danny Dyer like The Football Factory which is well worth a watch. 

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You can listen to our Green Street and Football Factory memories on Part 2 of this week's podcast 

As Joe Coffey, Derek Ryan, Conor Neville and I dredged up from memory, the plot of Green Street and other hooligan movies - bar exceptions like 1989's The Firm starring the brilliant Gary Oldman as Bexy and 1995's I.D. (watch both if you get a chance) - the plots can be a bit ridiculous at times.

But one aspect of Green Street was particularly ridiculous and that is the attempted Cockney accent of Woods' co-star Charlie Hunnam.

Often topping lists of the worst accents in movie history, feel free to remind yourself how off the radar his Cockney accent was in the film (Warning - strong language delivered in a horrifically inaccurate accent):


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