Kicking Off
- 2016 film
After their football team is sent down to a lower league, two fans decide to kidnap the referee who disallowed a goal in their final game. Stars Warren Brown, Greg McHugh, Alistair Petrie and Danielle Lineker.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 2016
- Stars
- Warren Brown, Greg McHugh, Alistair Petrie and Danielle Lineker
- Writer
- Robert Farquhar
- Director
- Matt Wilde
- Company
Despite a mare of a season, loyal fans Wigsy (Warren Brown) and Cliff (Greg McHugh) join the thousands of adoring supporters each Saturday in the terraces to sing and cheer their boys to victory.
But today is different. Today is important. Win: they stay up. Lose: they go down. In the dying moments of the match, unbelievable elation as their team score is immediately followed by unbelievable deflation as the Ref (Alistair Petrie) disallows the goal.
This, compounded by a moody goal at the other end, sends the losing supporters into a rioting frenzy. Disenfranchised by the impotency of the rioting hooligans to cause any real change, but determined to right this injustice, Wigsy and the more reluctant Cliff inadvertently form their own two-man firm....and kidnap the referee.
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Additional details
- Tagline
- The beautiful game just got ugly.
- UK certificate
- 15
- Duration
- 84 minutes
- UK release
- Thursday 21st April 2016
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Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Saturday 3rd August 2019 at 10:30pm on London Live
- Friday 2nd August 2019 at 12:15am on London Live
- Saturday 20th April 2019 at 12:00am on London Live
Recording details
- London - Filmed on location in Spring 2014.