The play is centred on a fictional football team, Blackton Rovers, their star player Jack Metherell and the family of club owner Austin Whitworth.
[1] In 1920 the play was adapted into a film The Winning Goal directed by G.B.
Professional footballer Jack Cock appeared as himself in the film.
It was revived by Northern Broadsides in 2010 after a period of near oblivion.
Barrie Rutter, the company's artistic director, failed to find a copy of the script in Britain.