Mike Bassett: England Manager
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 else seems to want the job. Football's top brass turn in desperation to Mike Bassett, manager of a 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 both Benson and Hedges in one of his squads.