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cheer "three cheers for
Ramirez"; this angers Mike, who proclaims "We're England", saying that the country hates him and that his wife is about to leave him. Urquart, unhappy with Mike's tone, asks him to get more off his chest, which leads to Mike calling him a small-minded bigot and criticising the car he bought from him. Urquart reacts by punching him in the nose and is effectively sacked from the team instantly. Later that night, Tonkinson is reconciled with Bassett and the two share a drink, which leads to them dancing drunkenly on a bar top. When Lightfoot gets on the bar to coerce Mike down, the pair both fall off in full view of the local press.
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was in charge and he was at the height of his pomp. Everyone had become convinced that it had all changed now, that we were going to be successful and continental about it all. This bungling uselessness was all in the past. Everything felt like it was going to be all modern and new and professional.
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and goes shopping. Wackett is then sent home for taking part in hooliganism and
Tonkinson accidentally gets involved in a drunken tryst with a transsexual and is also booted from the team. During a team meeting the next morning, Urquart begins to praise the Mexicans by getting the English players to
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When the press turn up at Mike's house to question him about the job he initially denies the speculation until his son Jason appears with a phone to tell him he's got the job. Bassett takes over the
England team and moves to appoint his coaching staff, namely assistant manager turned car salesman
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packet. During the game, Tonkinson opens the scoring with a dink shot over the keeper, but Poland soon begin to put pressure on and eventually equalise before going on to win the game 2–1. Bassett is criticised by the media for the formation he played and the tactics used. Meanwhile, some of his
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Following the success of the film, numerous talks over the years about a possible sequel. In late 2004 it announced that Mike
Bassett 2 was in the works, with the story being continued on from the first movie which sees this time Bassett leading his country to the European Championships in
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The morning after his drunken incident, Bassett is involved in a press conference at which he is expected to step down from the managerial position. When he announces that he is carrying on, the press begin to get hostile and
Bassett responds by reciting of
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England choosing to appoint a foreign manager as his replacement. Gary Wackett has now retired and is now on television as a
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over the recording. In an attempt to improve the team's mental and psychological wellbeing, they visit a sports science institute but half the team are injured in the process, leaving
Bassett with selection issues over his next game against
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as
Interviewer (Narrator), Bashir narrates the entire film, also appearing in scenes as the interviewer who is given complete access to the England setup as part of the documentary. He offers an impartial view of the events that
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for a new manager, with the press speculating that Mike
Bassett may be the new man for the job. Mike lives at home with his wife Karine and son, Jason. He is described as a former professional footballer who played for
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as the names of players. Bassett is mocked in a press conference but claims he called them up intentionally. England lose the game 3–0, leading to pressure being placed on his family by angry supporters.
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players anonymously state to an interviewer that they have doubts about
Bassett's credibility to lead the team. Bassett sits his coaching staff down to review the game but Doddsy's wife has taped
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era) who is very old-fashioned in his beliefs and often compares the England players' performances to cars. He is opinionated but is more concerned with getting the players to buy cars from him.
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The wheels weren't going to come off and we weren't going to have disasters. But that wasn't the case. That's why people come back to so often, because the same disasters continue to happen."
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gave a press interview in 2010 that parodied one given by "Doddsie" in the film, in which he simply agrees with everything the questioner says, even if that contradicts previous answers.
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as Super, Alex Lawler as Sexy, Declan Perkins as Perks, Danny Husbands as Normal, Phil Gridelet as Grids, Dion Osbourne as Ossie, Kim Durham as Benson and Robert Hudson as Hedges.
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as Tommo Thompson, a news reporter who is very sceptical about Mike but after making a bet with him later is seen to quit his job and become a bin man when England beat Argentina.
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Chris McQuarry as Alan Massey, a softly spoken timid striker who is a very talented player, he later becomes the captain in Wackett's absence. He was based on
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they conclude that nobody wants the job and are forced to look for a new coach in England but cannot decide on who should take the role. The most successful
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who is enduring an international goal drought since missing his penalty against Portugal two years prior. He struggles with self-confidence, he is based on
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leaving the entire team windswept before returning to the city centre to finish the parade. Away from Norwich, it is reported in the papers that
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was passed over for the England job). None of the other English managers in the Premier League are interested, forcing the FA to look to
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Dawtrey, Adam (24 December 2001). "Homegrown pix gain in Europe".
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manager having only previous experience of managing in the
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1725:"Empire's Mike Bassett: England Manager Movie Review"
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to get through to the second round. Reporter Tommo (
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1825:Cole, Sean (25 June 2018).
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