Trivia

The Irish players in the Rio airport are all (except one) actually native Brazilians. The Scottish team is made up of few Scots on holiday (who the film makers some how managed to find) and rest are local extras and filming crew.

The character of Dave Dodds (Bradley Walsh) is an obvious parody of Phil Neal, who was assistant to Graham Taylor when he was manager. Neal became something of a joke figure after a fly on the wall documentary that followed Taylor's ill fated spell in charge of England, showed that Neal never offered any advice of his own and simply agreed with everything that Taylor said.

In the film England beat Argentina 1-0 in the group stage of the World Cup finals. The England team did this for real a year later in the 2002 World Cup.

An uncredited Lily Allen provides the lead vocal on the "team song," due to Atomic Kitten member Natasha Hamilton having been hospitalized with a ruptured appendix just days before the song was due to be recorded.

There were only a maximum of 300 extras used at Wembley Stadium. The Moving Picture Company were responsible for all the visual effects, which included crowd replacement/replication at Wembly and the Maracana.