With each Goal movie that has come, the focus off the pitch has increased from the director and writers. In this instalment, there really isn't a huge amount of football that we see (for a football movie), and when we do it rarely features the actors - most of it is just real footage from the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The story itself centres largely around Charlie Braithwaite and Liam Adams (he cracks a strange expression on the DVD cover if you ask me) who play in the FIFA World Cup for England. While Mexican Santiago Munez is only able to watch from the box as the three were involved in a car accident a week or so out from the World Cup and Santi came out of it with a broken arm. While sports films have the tendency to be predictable there were moments in this you don't quite expect. Such as when Charlie starts going into convulsions and dies, and as I mentioned earlier not seeing the star from the previous Goal movies get to kick a ball was also surprising and disappointing. As I mentioned the lack of the actors being involved in the actual play to me seemed possibly like a cost-cutting procedure. The first two were released on the big screen with this only being a DVD release so that adds to my feelings. Furthermore, when they do actually green screen the actors into the real footage, it doesn't look as crisply done as before. Another thing about the story is when it ends, which is when England lose to Portugal in a penalty shoot out which is of course what exactly happened in reality. So I guess if they won the tournament then that would have been the plot. Maybe that is part of the reason as to why they went with the England and not the Mexico based storyline as they thought they would get more out of England in the tournament. Lastly, the message this film sends in many ways is that while important, a game of football isn't the end of the world, with friends and family and so forth being the key to happiness. An enjoyable football trilogy if not anything spectacular.