My novel Awaydays was published on 4 March 1998. Exactly 11 years and a day later, the film of the book will have its premiere. Eleven years of scrapes and struggles and almost absurdly bad luck in ...

Awaydays: How we made the best soundtrack in football film history – with no money When Kevin Sampson turned his football novelAwaydays into a film with Stephen Graham in 2009, he had six weeks and no ...

Team building sessions and awaydays have always been a part of office culture. But in a post-pandemic world, where we meet our colleagues IRL, or even in the virtual metaverse, will the awayday ...

BASED on Kevin Sampson's cult novel, Awaydays is about a gang of Tranmere football hooligans running riot on on the Wirral in the late 70s. The film mixes the hooliganism with a rites-of-passage tale ...

It's 1979, Merseyside, Liverpool, UK. Margaret Thatcher's recently entered No. 10 Downing Street yet England's precipitous slide into economic and cultural stagnation continues unabated. The post-punk ...

I have attended sessions involving beatboxing and improv theatre. But I’m not sure this is the way to reconfigure geopolitics Next Monday, senior politicians from France and Germany will no doubt be ...

Ready to press play on 'Awaydays' on your favorite screen? Here are ways to watch including rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can find the right fit. As of now in the US, 'Awaydays' ...

There’s no shortage of movies about Britain’s mean streets and, for the most part, Awaydays runs with the pack. It’s Liverpool, 1979 and soulful looking Paul Carty, (Nicky Bell), yearns to join a ...

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