Premier League footballer Billy Green, an American, is on the long-term injured list at his home in Alderley Edge. His English wife Wendy befriends courier Tony Doyle, who works the rough streets of Manchester. A joke about a job swap is made into reality by pushy Wendy who wants to prepare her husband for life after the game. So Doyle moves into the Greens guest flat, and Green settles into Doyles pokey bedsit. Doyle gets use of the Aston Martin, trains with Greens team mates posing as a journalist. Green meanwhile takes on the grind of Doyles deliveries, meeting the good, the bad and the...