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10 Essential Football Films

November 19, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

With the World Cup about to get underway, Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential football films… The beautiful game. It inspires fevered passion across the globe. Football (let’s not open this can of worms my US chums…it is football, the one with the round ball you might call soccer), it’s a communal experience that can […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bend It Like Beckham, Diego Maradona, Escape to Victory, Fever Pitch, Mean Machine, Mike Bassett: England Manager, Shaolin Soccer, The Damned United, The Goalies Anxiety at the penalty kick, When Saturday Comes

Five Essential Football Movies

June 11, 2018 by admin

With the 2018 FIFA World Cup about to kick off this week, Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Football Movies… It’s fair to say that films centred on football  haven’t exactly set the world alight, especially when you consider its place as the world’s most popular sport. In fact, out of the trickle of movies […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Gary Collinson, Movies Tagged With: Escape to Victory, Goal!, Shaolin Soccer, The Damned United, When Saturday Comes

The Callow Way – Why Football And Film Don’t Mix

June 14, 2015 by Neil Calloway

This week, Neil Calloway looks at why soccer movies tend to bomb at the box office… The timing could not have been better; name recognition could not have been higher, it was the perfect time to release a film about an organisation that dominated the headlines for the past few weeks. It doesn’t always work […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Neil Calloway, Special Features Tagged With: Escape to Victory, The Damned United, The Game of Their Lives, United Passions

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