As a Mancunian, the scenes supposedly based in Manchester made me guffaw. Ali makes a call from a red telephone box (very rare in the North West) featuring a Boddingtons poster as three Man U fans without coats walk past in the rain (Mancs wear coats whatever the weather). It's like the set designer just Googled "Manchester, England" and chucked in whatever the first few results gave them. A later scene, meant to be set in a Manchester street, clearly featured American rowhouses rather then the ubiquitous red brick terraces of Northern England. It's was a lazy attempt to pass off a phony location.
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