With only three games left for England to qualify for the World Cup in Brazil, disaster strikes. The manager suffers a near fatal heart attack and, oddly enough, nobody seems to want to take his place. So Football's top brass turn to Mike Bassett, manager of a very minor league club.

Bassett is an old school manager who thinks tactics are small white mints and who writes his team on the back of a cigarette packet, leading to the surprise inclusion of two players. Benson and Hedges, in one of his squads.

Once in charge, Bassett has an immediate and enduring losing streak, but England scrape through to the final thanks to a fluke result elsewhere.

In South America, things go from bad to worse. The result are pathetic. the team captain is arrested and Mike's star player has a fling with a beautiful woman who turns out to be a man. The press are baying for Bassett's blood, the fans despite him, his family is threatening desertion and his fate as the most hated Englishman since Margaret Thatcher seems sealed.

Special Features:
* Cast and crew interview
* Behind the scenes footage
* The making of Mike Bassett, England manager