It's 2002 - the BNP rears its ugly head in an impoverished neighbourhood in Birmingham; England plays Argentina in the World Cup and Rob, failed professional footballer, is playing in the Sunday league against the team from the Mosque. I struggled at first with the complex multi-layered narrative and the Brummie dialect - but it's worth the effort, even if you don't like football, for the thoughtful insight into multicultural living in the 1980s.