A 29-minute fever dream where football obsession becomes spiritual warfare against Dutch giants Ajax.
Kipper is obsessed with Manor Park Football Club. At his workplace, this obsession attracts the derision of two of his colleagues. Meanwhile, Manor Park are to play against Dutch club Ajax
Acting
Sam Kydd's sweaty, desperate Kipper is genuinely haunting.
Production
Gritty Northern workplace captured in smudged 16mm authenticity.
Director
Raymond Day
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for ITV's 'Sunday Night Theatre', this captures pre-Premier League Britain when European football felt impossibly exotic and working-class masculinity was trapped between pride and humiliation.
Simon Rouse later became DI Meadows in 'The Bill'—imagine Kipper's tormentor solving crimes instead.
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