12.4.14

cup fever (1965)

"It was about time that these hooligans were brought to book!"
Barton United football club play in a local sunday league, and are doing rather well, that is until a council leader Mr Bates (David Lodge) decides they are going to build on the local park, depriving them of a ground. Help comes their way in the form of policeman (Bernard Cribbins) and the local professional club, Manchester United.
Children's adventure film, that is worth a watch for the views it offers of Manchester and Salford at the time, the cameo's by the Manchester United team and manager, and early appearances of Susan George and Olivia Hussey.

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