Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend (episode)

== Synopsis ==
The school has two tickets to the Ashton Athletics vs. Manchester United game, so Miss Battle-Axe decides to hold a game of football and award the tickets to the player of the match after lunchtime.
== Plot ==
Horrid Henry was watching the Ashton Athletic vs Tooting Tigers match on TV with Fluffy. The Ashton Athletic team had won the goal in the last round, and Henry cheers that his team won. The TV said Ashton Athletic is going for the next round against the mighty and legendary: Manchester United. Henry shouts: 'WAHEY!', opening the title card.
Henry asked: 'Please' if his parents would buy tickets to the Ashton Athletics vs Manchester United match, but Mum already told Henry last night that he is not going all the way to Manchester on his own except watching the match on TV. Henry tells them they don't understand that Ashton Athletic is playing against MU. Peter asks what it is but Henry said 'Silence, worm!' and Dad replies 'Don't be Horrid, Henry!'. Henry tells Dad he needs a ticket, and Dad asked how he's going to pay for it. Henry suggests using his pocket money. However, Dad tells Henry that he spoke his pocket money in the next three months taking that as a no. Henry said to them that they're the meanest, most horrible parents in the whole world.
Henry walks to school feeling sad, then Aerobic Al came by riding his bike saying morning to him. But Aerobic Al accidentally makes Mother Battle-Axe's purse fly in the air, and Henry caught the purse in the air and gave it to her, and Mother Battle-Axe said thank you. Henry saw the football net and imagining Henry himself as an Ashton Athletic player and kicking the soccer ball in the net. Henry was at school and saw Miss Battle-Axe holding two tickets to the Ashton Athletic vs Manchester match. Miss Battle-Axe tells them the school was lucky they got two tickets. Henry and his class shout, 'Me.'. Miss Battle-Axe has difficulty picking. So, she decides to play a football match at lunch. Miss Battle-Axe picked Moody Margaret and Aerobic Al to be the team captain.
While everyone was ready, Henry and Ralph were planning. Ralph doesn't want to let Henry score a goal to be the match's player. Henry says 'You're Moody Margaret's goalkeeper, that'll be easy.'. Susan asked Margaret who decide to go with Margaret. Margaret said nope and deciding later. Ralph tells Henry if he let him score, it will be cheating. Henry tells him to remember that the Purple Hand Gang member's rule always obeys the lord's high majesty. Henry said if he wins, he'll return the favour, taking Ralph to the football game.
Everyone was ready, and Miss Battle-Axe blow the whistle. Al kicked the ball. Margaret has the ball now, but Graham grabbed her leg. Margaret said it was 'Foul' and told him not to foul her again. Henry tried to kick the ball from Linda, but she pushes Henry making that another foul. The ball landed on Susan, and Margaret told Susan to pass it to her, but Susan didn't listen. Henry ran towards Susan and Margaret and started kicking the ball at each other. Miss Battle-Axe blew the whistle and told everyone they were supposed to be a team sport. They commenced over the game. After Henry ties her shoelaces together, Margaret tells Susan why didn't she passed the ball to her. Susan asked who decide to take it. Margaret said she'll take Susan. At the next match when Miss Battle-Axe blows her whistle, Henry kicks the ball and knocks Al, Linda, and William, but it landed to Susan. Susan kicks to Margaret and scores a goal while Bert was standing. Margaret and Susan shout, 'GOAAAAAAAAAAL!!!'. Miss Battle-Axe blows the whistle and said a goal to Margaret's team.
Next match, Miss Battle-Axe blows her whistle. Henry kicks the ball and it bounces on Gurinder's head. Al tells to pass ball but Henry said 'No way!', Ralph was pretending to be distracted by cover his left eye, Henry kicks and scores a goal, everyone from Al's team were cheering. Margaret walks to Ralph and asked what was he doing. Ralph pretends that a big bird washed on his eye but Margaret didn't see a big bird. Next match, Miss Battle-Axe blows her whistle, Susan pushes William and kicks the ball to Margaret and scores a goal while Bert was still standing. Margaret and Susan shout, 'GOAAAAAAAAAAL!!!'. Al asked Bert why didn't he try to save it. Bert replied: 'Um, I dunno.'. Miss Battle-Axe said it's a goal to Margaret's team and one minute left, Henry kicks the ball to Andrew and he knocks Andrew over. Margaret tells Susan to stop him but Henry pushes her over, Ralph tells everyone to look there while Henry kicks and scores a goal. Margaret asked why didn't he stop the ball. Ralph says there was a mountain lion over there but Margaret says it's a cat.
Miss Battle-Axe says it's a draw, Henry and Margaret shouted they both scored two goals and being the player of the match. Miss Battle-Axe was disappointed seeing such bad sportsmanship, a lot of cheating, bulging, shoving, and none gets to be player of the match, so Miss Battle-Axe decides to make a penalty shootout of Henry vs Margaret and no possibility of cheating. Later, Henry and Margaret both keep failing on kicking a goal. Henry kicks the ball so high and landed on Miss Battle-Axe's head, it bounces through the net knocking Margaret. Miss Battle-Axe shouted 'GOAAAAAAAL!!!!', she was player of the match and gets to keep the tickets, everyone else said: 'BUT THAT'S NOT FAIR!'.
Henry was walking home feeling mood after not getting the tickets, he saw Miss Battle-Axe walking with her mother. Mother Battle-Axe was arguing about football and doesn't want to travel to Manchester. Mother Battle-Axe saws Henry and give him a ticket for helping her in the morning, Miss Battle-Axe shouts 'Noooo!!!' as Henry shouts 'YES!'. Miss Battle-Axe and Henry were in Manchester in the football crowed watching the Ashton Athletic players playing against the Plenty of Manchester United. Henry shouted 'GOAAAAAL!' while pouring popcorn on Miss Battle-Axe, ending the episode. 
== Characters ==
*Horrid Henry
*Fluffy
*Mum
*Dad
*Perfect Peter
*Aerobic Al
*Mother Battle-Axe
*Miss Battle-Axe
*Moody Margaret
*Rude Ralph
*Sour Susan
*Greedy Graham
*Lazy Linda
*Weepy William
*Singing Soraya
*Gorgeous Gurinder
*Beefy Bert
*Anxious Andrew
*Brainy Brian
*Jolly Josh (cameo)
*Gordon's Dad (cameo in audience)
*Mad Martin (cameo in audience)
*Security Guard Woman (cameo in audience)
*Rabid Rebecca (cameo in audience)
*Head of the Institute of Interglyco Genetics (cameo in audience)
*Tetchy Tess (cameo in audience)
*Doddery Donald (cameo in audience)
*Mr Mossy (cameo in audience)
*Mrs Mossy (cameo in audience)
*Toilet Girl (cameo in audience)
*Plenty of Manchester United and Ashton Athletic players (including real-life United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar)
*Entire football crowd
*The School Cat
== Locations ==
* Henry's House
* Streets
* Ashton Primary School
* Old Trafford Football Stadium
== Trivia ==
* Manchester United's real-life goalkeeper at the time, Edwin van der Sar, was the inspiration for the appearance of the Manchester United goalkeeper in this episode.
* Dad says that Henry's pocket money for the next three months is spoken for. This could be a reference to the previous episode, Horrid Henry's Time Capsule, which this episode is often paired with on TV, and in which Henry loses his pocket money for a long time at the end of the episode after allegedly organising the trashing of the school gardens.
*Although Horrid Henry Goes to the Theatre is considered to be the episode which contains the most characters, if you add up the entire crowd and football players, this episode actually overtakes it with approximately 75,000 crowd members (Old Trafford capacity), 36 players (11 on each side plus substitutes) plus the main characters, although the vast majority of the crowd are completely unknown characters who aren't actually seen close-up and the substitutes are not seen at all, same goes for the managers (in Manchester United's case, Sir Alex Ferguson).
*It's likely a coincidence that Henry was in the crowd with lots of people that he knew (in the show's fictional universe, this is a coincidence, in the episode's production, this is not a coincidence).
*From a real life perspective, it's not very realistic for a school to win FA Cup tickets.
== Errors ==
* Henry's right eye goes smaller than the others for a split second.
*When Henry says, 'Come on Perky', a flower vase appears on the left side of the scene. But when Henry and Fluffy are cheering, it disappeared.
*When Miss Battle-Axe says: 'Right children, everyone ready', Al is wearing his normal clothes instead of his sports clothes.
*At the very beginning, you can see the screen zoom in on Margaret’s house instead of Henry’s House.
*Cartoon physics: In real life, Henry's trainer wouldn't be strong enough for the ball to bounce off, since in real life, it would just hit the ball to the ground.
== Video ==
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Category:OAS Series 1