Best Footy film...

[jonnydog]

What's everyone's favourite footy film?

Despite seeing Escape to Victory god knows how many times when I was younger, I've got to go with 'There's only one Jimmy Grimble'.

[RedJ]

Mine's probably The Damned United, love Escape to Victory mind.

[IDM]

"Ashes to Glory"

[afro goal machine]

There's only one jimmy grimble is brilliant
with abit of bad acting i also like mean machine (Vinnie jones one)

[RobTheRover]

Not a film, more a feature length TV comedy drama, but I loved "11 men against 11" with James Bolam.

Very funny, especially the match played up the side of a mountain at 45 degrees.

[IDM]

I always enjoyed the TV film, about West Auckland taking part and winning Lipton's "World Cup" from before the first world war.  Dennis Waterman was in it I remember...

[auckleyflyer]

Not a film but the football bit in Kes makes me laugh just thinking about it!!!!

[mushRTID]

Not the best but I watched one called Believe the other day, about Sir Matt Busby coaching an u11's team. Was good.

[RedJ]

I've seen that, I quite liked that as well.

[GM-MarkB]

Mike Bassett...ALWAYS has me in stitches

[coventryrover]

Second Damn Utd though the book was better

[Donnybax]

I thought the documentary about Warnock while he was with sheff utd one season was very good. If you haven't seen it then its worth a watch on youtube

[River Don]

For me Kes is probably the best football sequence captured on film. After that The Damned United isn't a bad effort but markedly different from the book.

Once in a Lifetime: the extraordinary story of the New York Cosmos isn't a bad documentary.

[Sad-Rovers]

I haven't read the The Damned United book but enjoyed the film. I may have to dig out my Kindle out.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Sad

Don't expect much about football in the book. It's more about being inside the head of someone having a nervous breakdown. David Peace takes some beating for novels about the dark side of people in Yorkshire and that book is a fine example. It's a while since I read it, but if I recall correctly, the first chapter starts with Clough driving away from Elland Road shouting to himself, "Kitsons! Kitsons! f***ing Kitsons!" and kind of carries on like that.

The film was OK but it felt like those old Orange adverts at the pictures, where the producer basically told the scriptwriters to take out all the dark bits and replace them with light-entertainment humour.

Of his non-football books, I'd recommend GB74 and GB84. One loosely based on the Yorkshire Ripper and one on the Strike. Both brutally dark and disturbing.

I wrote to David Peace earlier this summer suggesting he write about the inter-relationships on our forum but he said it was a bit too heavy for him.