Watching Goal is kinda like reading Tinkle at age 30. The story-telling is in the same league, and the only way to enjoy it is wanting to enjoy it. And the target audience appears to be the same.
Indeed, the only way to find Goal interesting is not having watched any sports movie in your life – for, this is as elementary and clichéd as they get. It has ‘em all – a bunch of below-average sportsmen who have to win a championship to save their club, a reluctant alcoholic coach who has skeletons in his past, lack of money, evil powerful people who do not want them to rise... ....