welcome to the first installment of a new ongoing feature that will point to the less then cool things i find to geek out on.

Today’s guilty pleasure?  Goal 2: Living the Dream.  (and yes it is as bad as it sounds.)

i saw the first Goal movie a few months ago on FX and i watched it because i had nothing else going on.  it was the gripping tale of a mexican-american boy, Santi, who ends up being a big football (soccer) star in England.  it was a fun little movie, and mostly what kept me in it was that i had nothing better to do.

But tonight i needed some background noise and found Goal 2 could be streamed from Netflix, through my Xbox and onto the TV.    All i can say is, this is way better, i will give you the five reasons to watch this movie.

1) The main character’s girlfriend, Roz, is played by Anna Friel… Chuck from Pushing Daisies.  (and she has a bad accent to boot!!!)

2) Santi gets injured in a manor fitting Zoom Zoom Zumaya.

3) Has maybe the bratiest kid this side of Bart Simpson, and he only speaks Spainish so if annoying kids isnt your thing, you can ignore him.

4) two words: Lamborghini chase.

5) Lots o’ David Beckham!!!

should you go and check this out? i dont know, you need to be quite a football dork, but it made me happy.