If you live, breathe, idolise football, if you go to sleep at night dreaming of your favourite team, if you can think of nothing better at the weekend than a kickabout in the park with your mates, In the hands of the Gods is a must.

The idea is simple. It's a documentary about 5 English lads from working-class backgrounds with a burning ambition. Being skint, they plan on busking their way across to South America with the aim of meeting Diego Maradona.

The lads are very different: Woody, 22, has always dreamt of being a professional footballer and his idol is Maradona; Sami from Leeds has a criminal record and has fallen out with his mum; Jeremy, a calm young man, believes in football and Jesus; Enfield-born Danny, found his Dad deserted him at an early age. He now has a pregnant girlfriend and is looking 'forward to being the father his dad never was.' Finally, there's young scouser Mikey, a grafter who grew up on the same streets as Rooney.

What they have in common is a talent for doing football tricks such as 'keep-me-uppey', the art of keeping the ball in the air by balancing it on your knee, arm, head, indeed any part of your anatomy. That apparently is now called 'football freestyling' and the boys think the 'God' of this sport is the great man himself, Maradona, hence their desire to scoot halfway across the world to meet him.

This being a true story, the five lads had produced their tricks on a Sky TV programme called The Freestyle Show produced by a company called Fulwell 73. The lads approached Fulwell 73 (which included the directors) with the idea that they could cover their exploits. The idea was treated with scepticism by the movie makers, until the five blagged airline tickets to New York and the world was then most certainly in motion for the footie lads. The film company began to take them seriously.

In the hands of the Gods of course has a laugh, even within its title - Maradona's disputed headed goal against England in the World Cup was famously coined by Maradona as 'the hand of God', and there's a lot of humour as you follow the ups and downs of the five's footie adventure.

They have to busk across America and into South America, doing footie tricks for food, travel, drink, a bed for the night (if they can get it), heading from New York, to Memphis, to Dallas, Guatemala, LA and Rio, with not a bean in their pockets apart from what they make on the streets, all to get to Buenos Aires and the home of Maradona.

This being a true story, the rest is up to you. I'm not going to tell you whether they make it or not. It's a barnstorming documentary where you sometimes forget there's a film crew in tow, perhaps because they just record what happens rather than putting their own presence on the film or intervening. Gabe and Ben Turner both studied at Birmingham University, Gabe being the producer for Sky of The 'Freestyle Show' and this is their first movie.

If you're into footie, do get along to this one. If you're not such a footie fan, this film will be entertaining merely for the fact that it shows five dishy young guys in tight shorts doing magic tricks with a ball. They're very different as people who show genuine emotions in their attempts to get along, and many girls will admit a film showing guys showing emotion? My that's rare!

This is a trip which is emotionally and physically demanding and it will test their loyalty to each other. The music is classy and it's also a delight to see many of the kindnesses bestowed upon the guys from total strangers. It's an uplifting story in that sense, all the better for being a true one which should make you curious as to how it will end. Try to avoid finding out. This is a film for anyone wanting to live a dream who started off skint in their pursuit of it. Certainly for those in the know, football's in the blood.