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This is England 86 brings Shane Meadows to Channel 4
Set three years after the drama of the 2006 film, This is England 86 follows the same Grimsby kids through the smooth and the rough of the 1986 Mexico World Cup. Broken up into 4 episodes the drama will be showed in September later this year (2010) on Channel 4.
I don't really remember Mexico '86 too well - 1990 is the one that got me - but what I do remember is the sense of injustice that overshadowed England's run at the world cup. Diego Maradona's "hand of god" and his lightning dribble finished us off in the end of the quarter finals and suddenly England had a new arch nemesis to add to the might of Germany.
It's hard to see from the trailer what the series will be about, but with Shane Meadows directing once again after the 2006 Bafta-winner, and the same cast as before, it's hard to imagine that This Is England ’86 will be all football and parties. Whether the footballing themes of injustice and enduring rivalry are mirrored in the storyline of the drama series is yet to be seen, but I doubt it’ll be anything less than real.