Five minutes of pure Sunday league chaos — where's Hamish though?
Guts and glory are at stake in the Saturday recreational soccer league. This hilarious animation perfectly captures the highs and lows of coaxing together a motley crew to show up on time and game ready every week, but at the end of the day it's all worth it for the beautiful game.
Writing
Max Rushden's perfectly unhinged narrator delivery.
Direction
Bate and Jernigan squeeze epic scope into five minutes.
Director
Matthew Bate
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Case Jernigan created over 200 miniature paper puppets for the film, each hand-painted with Sunday league team colors.
The title references the obscure 'game of three halves' — a real football curiosity where matches were split into three 30-minute periods in 19th-century Scotland.
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