If Green Street Hooligans and The Football Factory are about hooligans who follow football so they can have someone to take their aggressions about, this movie is about real football fans.
At the start of the 1980s, Julia Herrick is a successful sports journalist. Thus she finds herself sharing a car with her former hero Danny Blanchflower. In a series of flashbacks in which Julia recalls events from 1961 with three of her friends as they cheer on the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double".
The movie shows the girls listening to the radio and cheering when the draws are picks. Singing on the bus, "When the Spurs Come Marching in." Rituals performed on the pitch with sacred items, like a piece of a players gum. A knighting scene takes place bringing the new girl in with a "shinpad of unknown Manchester United player by the name of Bobby Charlton after a tackle by Dave Mackay" and a broken seat from the stadium.
Julia's home life may not be so great as her parent's fight, but Julia always has the Spurs. Julia tries to persuade her parents to buy a ticket for the Spurs versus Leicester City Cup Final, but she is ignored. The girls come up with the money for the FA Final game, but find out they won't be on sale till 9am on Wednesday. Julia agrees to spend the night inside White Hart Lane's gates so she can be first in line.
Julia finds the players locker and falls asleep dreaming about the players. When she wakes up on the pitch she discovers a one ticket per person rule. Rushing to go get the girls, they get back too late to get any tickets.
When teacher catches Julia writing to Blanchflower, begging for match tickets, Julia's mom tries to find her a new group of friends. Her new ballet-dancing friend's father's has four Cup Final tickets. He really doesn't even care about the game. Julia steals them and shares them with her friends.
At Wembley Field, the girls are confronted by the father and taken to a police station. Julia returns home in time to discover Spurs have won the Cup; she is overjoyed. Later that year she is sent to boarding school never to see her friends again.
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