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• Miscellaneous: When Steve is trying to con Pete into taking Mat to the match, the money he is holding goes from folded in half to thirds and back to half again.
  
  
• Continuity: The crew are heading to an away match at Manchester United. They meet to catch a train at Kings Cross but, during the next scenes, they are actually boarding the train at Paddington.
  
  
• Factual errors: Actual trains departing London to Manchester leave from Euston Station, not Kings Cross or Paddington.
  
  

• Factual errors: The crew are seen boarding a First Great Western Train. These do not go to Manchester.
  
  
• Factual errors: The fight scene with Manchester United fans clearly was filmed outside London Fenchurch Street station, not in Manchester.
  
  
• Continuity: When Matt has the Chelsea grin, he is obviously bleeding a lot in the corners of the mouth. But in the next scene with the van and then with the fight, the blood is gone and it doesn't show and sign of wounds and him wiping the blood away.
  
  
• Factual errors: At Matt's first match, the away fans team are named as being Birmingham City (who play in all blue shirts and white shorts), and their supporters are referred to as "northerners". However, the team shown playing West Ham United is actually Gillingham (blue and black stripes with black shorts), who ironically are one of the few teams in England south of West Ham. The match shown was played on Saturday 27th March 2004, and finished 2-1 in favour of the Hammers.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first bar scene when Bovver is shown standing on a table singing their West Ham song, he is clearly shown drenched in beer as they throw it everywhere. The next scene is shown in the bathroom with Bovver and Matt and his sweater is completely dry and shows no signs of the beer throwing.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the last big fight, Matt hits a guy with a big black stick, its obvious that it's made from rubber.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the scene where the motorcyclist is going through the tunnel to visit 'the enemy' in Millwall, the sign says "Welcome to Millwall, London Borough of Tower Hamlets". This is the area called Millwall in London Docklands (Isle of Dogs) and not where the football club is located as it moved south of the river many years ago from here. It is now in Bermondsey which is in SE16 area of London. Most of SE16 is in the London Borough of Southwark, but the part where Millwall is located comes under the London Borough of Lewisham.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Matt leaves Boston, a Delta Airlines jet is shown taking off, implying he is on board it. He is then shown arriving and an announcement can be heard saying welcome to Heathrow. At the time of the movie, Delta Airlines did not serve Heathrow.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The station called 'Bank' in the film is actually 'Mile End'. Bank is in central London and no where near West Ham FC. Mile End is actually closer and a more relevant station to have used.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the scene when the gang are watching the FA Cup draw, they are all in work and the kids are shown at school. The FA Cup draw always takes place on a Sunday, therefore the kids wouldn't be in school and it would be unlikely for the gang to be at work.
  
  
• Factual errors: As Matt arrives in London, he is seen on an underground train pulling into a station, with a sign saying 'Bank'. As he steps off the train it is clearly not Bank station, as the station Matt is at is an above ground station, which Bank is not. As Matt emerges from the Underground to meet his sister he is at the real Bank station in Central London.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Matt arrives in London his sister picks him up and says that it was "match day madness" and that Tottenham was in town last night. Later in the scene Matt meets Pete and they go to see West Ham play Birmingham. This is an error because West Ham would not play back to back matches, not even if there was some sort of cup match.
  
  
• Continuity: At Mat's first game when Bovver goes to shout at the rival team, the guards take Bovver away, when Bovver resists his hood falls down. The next scene features him still resisting but his hood is back up. As his arms were detained there was no way for him to put it back up.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Matt (Elijah Wood) goes to meet his sister Shannon (Claire Forlani) he gets off a Northern Line Train at East Finchley Station (in the open air) and is then seen walking down the steps from the platform, he walks down a subterranean passage, but he then walks out of the exit from Charing Cross Underground Station (a subterranean station) which leads out on to Trafalgar Square.
  
  

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