Taking a critical view of football, including vintage footage of a 1996/1997 football match between Coventry City and Aston Villa, TACKLE tackles homophobia within football.. Observant of English leisure rituals, in places offering snapshots of a less cosmopolitan England, Englishness and a nostalgia for an England that may or may not have existed. In Tackle, a football match between two regional teams. Even ‘tackle’ is 1970s slang.