Ray Winstone's Football Blinders And Blunders

Here I was naively thinking that all of the footballing DVD stocking fillers that ever needed to be released onto the overpopulated market already existed.

Yet it seems there is always room for one more, so here we have the original cockney geezer Ray Winstone sporting an uncharacteristically shaggy mane and wearing his England away shirt (which it has to be said looks like a knock off!), at times worryingly exposing his manly ship's rivets (it must have been a very cold recording studio that day) whilst needlessly talking us through another catalogue of all the same "blinders and blunders" that we have seen ad infinitum of countless other compilations such as this one.

Winstone is a puzzling choice for this collection: now a relatively established Hollywood star, his love for football is evident as is he dedication to his beloved "'ammers" but it comes as a scripted shock when he claims that he would exchange all of the acting roles he has ever done to have played football for England. Fighting talk indeed. Would the pay packet he garners from this quickie make much difference to the Winstone account following Indiana Jones? We must presume he is really doing it for the love of the beautiful game, I guess.

Eschewing the awful portmanteau style of the recent Phil Daniels effort, the extended running time of this turkey is nigh on doubled by the endless repeating of each clip from every angle. Albeit there is an entertaining montage of goals that come about with the keeper unaware that a striker is lurking behind him waiting for the ball to hit the ground and tap it into the empty net, but there is little new to add with this repetitive money grabber.



Released on DVD on 24th November 2008 by 4DVD.

Written by Simon Cole.