YMMV / What If Gordon Banks Had Played

• Alternate History Wank: It is hard to escape the feeling that the hatred shown to the tories, unionists, and often the British in general through their portrayal as near caricatured psychopaths, as well as the utter humiliation each go through by the end of the story is not some form of wish fulfilment
• Fridge Logic: In the end, it is implied that because of the actions of Powell's regime, Britain became and remained a Pariah state and despised by the world for well after 20 years had passed. Given that real-world nations such as Spain, South Africa, Argentina, Most Warsaw Pact nations, the Soviet Union, China and dozens of other nations had far more lengthy and far more brutal regimes than the one depicted as occurring in Britain, it seems strange that Britain alone would be singled out and despised above all others.