A sports fan's romantic courtship clashes with his obsession with his favorite football team.A sports fan's romantic courtship clashes with his obsession with his favorite football team.A sports fan's romantic courtship clashes with his obsession with his favorite football team.
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Did you know
- TriviaNick Hornby: coach of the rival football team.
- GoofsPresumably because of a placement deal, many of the characters are shown drinking Holsten Pils, including the protagonist during the crucial match and Arsenal fans celebrating at the end. In the 1980s, Holsten were sponsors of Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal's great rivals, and there is no way Arsenal fans would be drinking their lager.
- Quotes
Sarah Hughes: Paul, it's only a game!
Paul Ashworth: DON'T SAY THAT! Please! That is the worst, most stupid thing anyone could say! Cause it quite clearly isn't "only a game." I mean if it was do you honestly think I'd care this much? Eh? Eighteen years! Eight-teen years! Do you know what you wanted eighteen years ago? Or ten? Or five? Did you want to be Head of Year at North London Comprehensive, I doubt it. I'd doubt if you wanted anything for that long. And if you had, and if you'd spent three months thinking that finally, FINALLY you were gonna get it and just when you think it's there it's taken away from you... I mean I don't care what it is, a car, a job, an Oscar, the baby... then you'd understand how I was feeling tonight. But there isn't, and you don't, so...
Sarah Hughes: So, so what, so fuck off, go home, leave you alone? I'll tell you something Paul, there isn't anything that I've wanted for eighteen years, cause I was a kid eighteen years ago. And if I did still want the same things I'd think I'd gone wrong somewhere, because actually I don't want to marry David Cassidy, I don't want bigger tits, I don't want to do better on my mock-Os. I've stopped worrying about that kind of thing and maybe you should try.
Paul Ashworth: Well maybe there's a big bit of you that's gone missing somewhere, maybe everyone should want something they've always wanted.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Movie Show: Episode dated 31 August 1997 (1997)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,736
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,093
- Oct 17, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $3,736
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1