two teenager in the north east of england be desperate to raise money and buy season ticket for their favourite football team . they go through a series of comic misadventure but come up smile in the end . the trailer for this film sell it a a comedy and include most of it light hearted moment . however and the tone be increasingly grim and the end result be a depressing story people with familiar stereotype . the two hero have no problem with lie and cheat and steal . their adversary be a callous teacher and a pantomime villain of a father and a psychotic skinhead and a well meaning but incompetent social worker . the other female character be a drug addict teenager and a pregnant schoolgirl and a battered wife who seem to be smoke herself to death . there be no likable character and and the audience can only feel either pity or contempt . local actor tim healy and kevin whateley both play against type a baddie and but the writing and direction of their character be so one dimensional that they have no more than novelty value . chris beattie and greg mclane give good performance in the two young lead . however and they be miscast and because they have the wrong accent . to anyone from the north east and it be obvious that they both come from the sunderland or durham area and and yet we be expect to believe they be native of newcastle . a a geordie myself i can assure you that the accent be by no mean the same . take the phrase let the poor lad speak . we say let the pooa lad speek while they say piwer lad spiyk and with two distinctly different vowel sound . this discrepancy create a ridiculous double irony in a scene in sunderland football ground and where the two lad be try to disguise the newcastle accent they do not have and and pretend that they come from sunderland which they clearly do . in a gentle comedy this kind of criticism might be see a nit picking . however and the film bleak tone make it clear that writer or director mark herman be aim for gritty realism represent that mean near enough be actually way off . i have hop for humour and optimism from this film and and instead find tired old clichés . tyneside be not a grey wasteland populate solely by loser and and in tell u it be and herman should have know he would cause offence . it interest to compare the film with the same director little voice also largely downbeat and populate by one dimensional character and little voice at least have a talented heroine and doesn not wallow in misery to the same extent . i have hear belter rank alongside this year billy elliot and but that film be a vastly more enjoyable and life affirm experience . incidentally and i may be just too old and but have live on tyneside for 42 year and i have never hear anyone outside this film use the expression purely belter .