Football

Football on screen

Community, management, celebrity and the social life around the pitch. This page connects the films to longer stories so the subject can be followed by idea and sporting context rather than by publication date.

Start with Bend It Like Beckham, The Damned United and Diego Maradona. Related reading: Gurinder Chadha: Football as a Language of Family and Community, Bend It Like Beckham: The Football Pitch as a Social Space, The Damned United: The Manager as the Main Sporting Character.