Renford Rejects

Filming

Cast

Main characters

• Jason Summerbee - The team's captain, an average working-class teen who in his head was a genius player destined for the top. He is often seen wearing a Hull City jersey. He seems to be a pampered child who tends to tell lot of lies. In Season 1 when the team makes a trip to London, he starts to say lies for not go with them but everybody realize although they pretend not to notice, with Robin's help he eventually goes to London too. Also in other episode his friends bullying him for have the issue about telling lies generating a complex situation with all of them, specially with Robin. Apparently Jason have a crush on her, but when he realize that Robin manipulates him for get a ticket to a football game, he resents her, she also gets mad with him when she discovers that the ticket was not for see famous players. In season 2 Robin appears in few episodes, but both are happy to interact with each other. The only one who seems not have problems with Jason is Stewart, who in most chapters acts as his older brother, defending and supporting him, there's a good chemistry between both.
• Stewart Jackson In the first two series, the team were coached by him, an upper-class older boy who had been the school team's star player until an injury prevented him from playing. He supports Chelsea and often wears Chelsea shirts. By the third series, however, he had recovered from his injury and joined as a player. He left after the 40th episode.
• "Bruno Di Gradi" - Real name Barry Gray, he believed he was an Azzuri superstar, and so constantly spoke in an Italian accent despite really being English. He often wears Italian football shirts.
• Ben Phillips - The poetry-loving, bespectacled goalkeeper.
• Vinnie Rodrigues - Just as the Renford players fantasied about being great footballers, Vinnie fantasied about being a famous commentator and anchorman. He frequently presented to-camera reports on the team, and in his fantasies famous presenters such as Jim Rosenthal often appeared as his co-anchor.
• Eddie McAvoy - Owner of the local cafe "Graceland", and a fanatical Elvis fan, Eddie often helped out the team, and even coached them later in the series. A running gag was that his wife Priscilla could always be heard, but her face never seen. However she does appear as other characters such as a nurse and an old friend of Eddie's
• Ronnie Supra for the first two series was the fifth player. He was recognizable as always wearing the latest fashions, always combing his hair on the pitch during games and being the son of the sponsor for the team's strips - his father's firm 'Supra Drain', in which was said that Ronnie would someday work. After series two, Ronnie left the Rejects to start his own Agency, and would appear in one episode of series three to help the Rejects when their local pitch was under threat of having houses built on it.
• Robin Walker, who was also by far the team's most skillful player, but joined the Rejects due to not being allowed to play for the school team. Some male Rejects appear to have a crush on her, most notably on Jason and Stewart, but Robin apparent crush on Jason was just to get an invitation to a soccer game. During each of the series, the rejects had a girl playing for their team, Robin was the first. Davidson left to further her acting career at the end of the first series. Robin appeared in season two first episodes, and is spotted that her invitation to Chelsea ladies' team was suggested by her replacement, Sue, although Robin is very grateful to Sue the rest of the team is quite upset with her for losing their star player.
• Sue White - Unlike Robin, Sue's lack of footballing ability was more in keeping with the rest of the Rejects team. In Season 2 Episode 1, at first she was Ben' replacement, she was goalkeeper for the match against Razor, but only to flirt with Terry whole game made this not achieve anything. Sue realize that she had no chance to get into Reject's Team but anyway she got Robin's place, and is spotted that Robin's invitation to Chelsea ladies' team was Sue's original idea. Her character was unpopular and suffered much for not being Robin, so was written out.
• Mia Smith, who outlasted her predecessors by staying for the third and fourth series. Like Sue, it seems that Mia doesn't have good skills.
• In series four, Stewart was replaced by Dennis Quayle, who became the player/manager, and who successfully trained the Rejects to qualify for the European Beach Football Championships.
• Terry Stoker. The Rejects' fierce enemy, played for rival team the Razors, whom father, Basil, is the coach. Terry was also responsible for giving the Rejects their name. In first season it seems that Terry has a love interest in Robin, as Jason and Stewart, but in second season he definitely had a crush on Sue and do not interact with Robin anymore.

  Supporting/Recurring Characters

• Basil Stoker Terry's father, was the school's football coach and had been responsible for not picking the Rejects players for his team.
• Priscilla McAvoy, Eddie's wife.
• Peter Grade, the younger brother of Barry Grade who did not adopt his older brother's tendencies when it came to his cultural identity. "Baby Pete" became the official team mascot for The Rejects when Barry's mother could not take care of him due to conflicts with her job. The Rejects having a baby as a mascot added to their "outcast" nature. He first appeared in Season 3 Episode 3 and made appearances in Season 3 Episode 8 and Season 4 Episode 6, leaving after the 48th episode "The Mascot".
• John Phillips, little brother of Ben Phillips, subject of a lot of Ben's poetry as baby John suffered from a birth defect that caused a lot of stress for the Phillips family. Ultimately, one of Ben's poems wins a contest and brings publicity to John's defect which sparks the Rejects to start a charity in his name.

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Music