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How Goal! Went from a Wild Idea to a Cult Movie Franchise for Football Fans

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"I told the girl in the book shop I was looking for "How to be a Film Producer". She looked out the window and saw the Ferrari, heard the English accent, and suddenly I’m waking up the following morning next to her and her girlfriend. I thought, ‘This never happened to me when I was working in publishing.’"

It’s just gone past 11 a.m. in Los Angeles and Mike Jefferies is midway through a sprawling symposium on the subject of how he made one of football film culture’s most cherished artifacts, the 2005 film Goal!