When England played in the 1966 World Cup final, many people probably skipped something they really should have been doing to attend or watch the match, and the list of excuses the absentees gave would probably boggle the mind. Some may have told the truth, but that is unlikely if it was a family function, such as a wedding or funeral.

This is the basis of the delightful 2006 comedy film Sixty Six, which told the story of Bernie Reuben (played by Gregg Sulkin), a misfit of a child growing up in the 1960s as part of a dysfunctional family. Young Bernie is bullied at school, even by his older brother Alvie (played by Ben Newton), and is always last to be selected when the kids are picking teams to play football; even the polio sufferer with a bad leg gets picked before him.

Bar Mitzvah

Bernie decides that he is the unluckiest boy alive and no one will ever consider him worthwhile. All that changes though when his rabbi starts preparing him for his upcoming bar mitzvah, when he tells him that for one day he will be the most important person, the centre of attention.

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