I watched this film and quite enjoyed it.I liked that Jimmy Grimble played soccer. I also enjoyed that he played soccer well. Jimmy Grimble played soccer well.I also enjoyed that he had multiple father figures. Sometimes, these father figures would vie for primacy in the same shot. For my money, Harry is the primary father figure, because he is in with Jimmy's mum, but the sad coach bloke isn't.I wish I had multiple father figures.In relation to the weird chick, I thought that she was kind of awesome. Like, I would love to go to school in Manchester some time, play soccer well, have a deadbeat coach, vie for my mother's attention with a different deadbeat (though not a coach) and then tour cemeteries with a weird chick.If I had to put her in a position, I'd suggest right wing.

I may be slightly biased, being a Blue, but it's not a bad film in its own right. It is thoroughly predictable (my 11 year old daughter told us all exactly what would happen in the last 20 minutes) but nicely put together. The football scenes are pretty good, obviously the timing is exaggerated for effect but on the whole it's a pretty believable portrayal of kids' football. The film is worth 10/10 just for the scenes of Maine Rd and the plucky lad standing up to the arrogant reds, and another 10 (if that were possible) for this classic spine-tingling moment at the end: "What could be better than Man united?" "Man City!" - well said, our Jimmeh!

When I watched the film for the first ever time I was quite frankly scared. This was because of the fact I knew exactly what was going to happen. Its not that the film gives too much away, it's more the fact that the film is so poorly scripted and is so obvious. Even with such a bad storyline I am sure that it could have been a better film.Overall the acting was not too bad but the rest of the film was awful. The reason I say this is that some of the aspects of the film were totally unrealistic, and to say that the film is about football it appears that no one on the production team had ever seen it before.Some good points to take from the film are the performances of Robert Carlyle and Ben Miller.My advice, don't watch the film, ever.

Light entertainment. It's a nice change from the car chases and guns we see too much of. Story of a boy who wants to be a soccer star. Nice boy, bullies, nice soccer action. Simple, but entertaining.Sports scenes are well done. Story is a bit simplistic, but that's okay.