This is English ladsploitation about football hooligans in the era post the glory days.  

You have the hooligan leader returned from jail to find out things have changed and they have to fight their way back to the top.  You have the lost lad who has lost his thug dad looking for a new father figure… and luckily the aforementioned leader is looking for a son to love.  

It is at times very surreal, and a lot of the humour comes from things so obtuse you never expect them… even in scenes where you know the general direction the story will probably take, the visual and slapstick things that appear are often unexpected.  

As a ladspoitation flick, don’t expect any female characters to be more well rounded than their boobs…. And those are quite well rounded.  In some ways this is worth watching just to try and imagine how they played so many very weird scenes straight….

J* gives it 3 stars.

<review written in 2018>