A has-been, alcoholic former soccer star determines to make a comeback. He gets help from his former girlfriend, now a rock star, and her partner.
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| Suzanne Somers | ... | 'Cloudy' / Cloudy | |
| Ian McShane | ... | Rod Turner | |
| Adam Faith | ... | Jake | |
| Paul Nicholas | ... | Clint | |
| Sam Kydd | ... | Sam Turner | |
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Trevor Thomas | ... | Speed |
| Glynis Barber | ... | Susan | |
| Sandy Ratcliff | ... | Rita (as Sandy Ratcliffe) | |
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Alan Lake | ... | Georgie Moore |
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Paul J. Medford | ... | Marek (as Paul Medford) |
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Matthew Long | ... | Mac Gill |
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Paul Desbois | ... | Butch |
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Eric Deacon | ... | Chris |
| John Motson | ... | TV Interviewer & Commentator | |
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A has-been, alcoholic former soccer star determines to make a comeback. He gets help from his former girlfriend, now a rock star, and her partner.
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From the pen of Jackie Collins, the story of a fallen super-star and his struggle back to the top.Parents Guide:
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22 November 1979 (UK) See more »Filming Locations:
Maidenhead Football Club, York Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK See more »Company Credits
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Packer Organisation, Cinema Seven Productions Ltd., Elliott Kastner Productions See more »
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Closing credits: All the characters and narration of this film are fictitious.Characters and events are not intended to refer to actual persons or events and any similarity is unintentional and entirely coincidental. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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The opening credits of this movie feature some of the most evocative scenes of what is was like to be part of grass roots football in the 1970's. Grimy rooftops give way to a chugging freight train whose journey passes by a football ground where a game is taking place in an absolute quagmire. The ball should be white but is plastered in mud as are all the players. This is the way it used to be. Those from the locality will recognise the ground of Maidenhead United. Unfortunately that is the high point of the movie as thereafter it becomes a cheesy & predictable story of of a drunken ex-pro footballer who gets the opportunity to make good one last time. Actually, Ian McShane is very good in the role although his gait in the football action sequences is not that of a gifted footballer. Sam Kydd plays his father. Were there any British movies of that era Sam Kydd wasn't in?