Ade (Arinzé Kene) and Jason (Russell Tovey) in the 2016 film adaptation.
Lifelong friends Jason and Ade are about to play their first major professional match as footballers after training together at the same Football Academy since they were eight years old. They banter and horse around, but when this leads to a kiss, it has repercussions for both of them far greater than either of them could have imagined.
Provides examples of:
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: When Jason does Blackface by putting Nutella on his face and pretending to be Ade's "long lost brother from Nigeria", Ade retaliates by covering his face in shaving cream and acting like a Cockney geezer.
- The Beard: Jason so far as to try and make Lyndsey, a woman he met while out clubbing, a stooge in a sex tape scandal that he is manufacturing in order to shore up his publicly heterosexual image.
- The Film of the Play: Started life as a 2014 play before being adapted into a film in 2016.
- Preacher's Kid: Ade’s father is an evangelical minister, who seems to be disinterested in Ade’s football career and would rather spend time working on his sermons.
