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RAMON BENITEZ looks at how the beautiful game has been depicted on the big screen – with varying degrees of success

REVOLUTIONARY French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard said “cinema is truth 24 times a second”. And Brian Glover’s hilar-ious (albeit bullying) performance as a Bobby Charlton-obsessed PE instructor in Ken Loach’s classic 1969 film Kes is a prime – and cine-matically poetic – example that resonates. I mean, everyone likes to self-mythologise their amateur exploits on parks pitches, don't they?
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