feeling listless

Film Variety reviews Mike Bassett: England Manager: "Using his salt-of-the-earth Liverpudlian accent to good effect, Tomlinson carries the pic with an impressive re-creation of the real thing that seems at least partly inspired by a famous TV documentary on former England manager Graham Taylor (clearly one of the models for the Bassett composite), though scripters Rob Sprackling and J.R.N. Smith claim their original idea dates back 17 years." Perhaps most intriguing about the review is for a stridently Hollywood paper, there is a pointedly good knowledge of football. I still can't help but reminded of the 'The Mary Whitehouse Experience' sketch about the possible coverage of the World Cup in America ('let's look at some more Sochur').