- Aluminium Christmas Trees: Towards the start of the Seventies segment, Bertie is seen rejecting a schoolboy who trialled for the club. Towards the end, that schoolboy is revealed to be Peter Beardsley, who won the League twice (and, funnily enough, the FA Cup once) with Liverpool and was capped 59 times by England. As a youth player, Beardsley was indeed rejected by several lower-division clubs before he was signed by Carlisle United.
- Awesome Moments: Bostock's upset victories over Chelsea and Leeds United, withstanding everything the superior First Division sides could throw at them through a combination of Clive Kennard's goalkeeping and plain underdog luck, wearing them down until their forwards could scoop in a last minute goal. And as Gerry insists, neither of these matches were fixed by him note , meaning Bostock Stanley beat both of them legitimately on their own merit.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The film contains many plot elements in common with Mike Bassett: England Manager, including the team's manager dropping a major Cluster F-Bomb during a half-time team talk, Bertie Masson and Mike Bassett both having Professional Butt Kissers as assistant managers and wives called Margaret, Bostock and England both being captained by hard-men with Hair Trigger Tempers, and both teams far exceeding non-existent expectations in cup competitions.
- From 2017-19 Notts County FC had an owner named Alan Hardy, who was much given to grand gestures and showboating but under whose stewardship the club was relegated to Non-League for the first time in its history.
- Retroactive Recognition: Ralph Ineson, who these days is best-known for his roles in Game of Thrones and Chernobyl, has a relatively minor role as Bostock's goalkeeper, Clive Kennard.
- Values Dissonance: The scene with the obviously paedophiliac youth team coach comes across as incredibly uncomfortable viewing nowadays in the wake of it becoming widespread knowledge that sexual abuse of youth players was a major problem in the English football system for several decades. Even at the time the film first aired it would have been pretty tasteless considering that probably the most notorious sexual abuser in the scandal, former Crewe Alexandra coach Barry Bennell, had been convicted in a high-profile trial the previous year.
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