Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
Acting
The young cast's feral, unpolished devotion—especially Nathenson's starry-eyed intensity.
Production
Gritty period London that smells of chip shops and broken dreams.
Writing
Dick Clement and Ian La Frennes' script treats teenage girls like actual humans, not props.
Director
Philip Saville
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1960-61 Spurs 'double' was genuinely historic—the first since 1891—and this film captures how working-class London clung to that triumph as post-war identity.
Director Philip Saville was so committed to authenticity that actual Spurs players appear as themselves in the documentary-within-the-film sequences—including the legendary Danny Blanchflower.
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