The show parodied many aspects of British football culture in the late 1980s, such as the increasing commercialisation in the game, intrusive and rarely accurate media and fan violence.
The script also made frequent use of Ricky Lenin's attempts to fit in with what he saw as a 'western lifestyle', in a similar way to some of Sayle's appearances as the Balowski Family in The Young Ones.
Situations included the trouble caused by the ghost-writing of Ricky's column in The Daily Tits (parodying The Sun) (with guest appearance by Jacqueline Ashman as Curvy Corinne) - a complicated political treatise arguing in favour of collectivism in Lenin's original text is transformed by the newspaper's ghost writer to "I hate all paddies, but I wouldn't mind giving that Gloria Hunniford one" in the paper; the north–south economic divide in England ("In Crunchthorpe there's a hundred and three per cent unemployment.
The Government uses the place to dump nuclear waste...they pile it up in the town centre, outside Freeman Hardy and Willis") and films The Titfield Thunderbolt and Apocalypse Now.
The script regularly took great delight in the unsophisticated nature of British football, with its traditional emphasis on strength over skill: A running gag in the show was various characters (particularly Sayle) speaking lines from well known pop songs as dialogue.