With the UEFA Champions League just finished, it means the club level football calendar is over for the season. So why not do a quiz based on the so-called beautiful game? How well do you know how its big screen adaptations? As always feel free to let me know your score or any other films in the genre you’re a fan of.
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Answers
1. Gregory’s Girl (April 1981)
2. Escape to Victory (July 1981)
3. Fever Pitch (1997)
4. Bend it like Beckham (2002)
5. Kicking and Screaming (2005)
6. The Damned United (2009)
Alex Raphael 
I got three – whoopee
Still among the best scores. Well done Derrick 🙂
Fever Pitch! Such a great underrated film showing the true sense of football fandom! The Damned United is pretty special too, what a shame the beautiful game struggles to adapt well to cinema though.
Yeah, I’m not sure why that is. I can’t stand baseball but some of my favourite sports films are baseball ones.
Yeah for some reason I love Baseball films too and it doesn’t massively travel to the UK
Field of Dreams is my favourite sports film https://alexraphael.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/lines-of-the-day-fieldofdreams/
Great choice love that one!
You ever been to Iowa?
Nope, just Texas, NJ and NY.
I love New York. watching the Sopranos is as close as I’ve been to New Jersey. Did you go to Atlantic City?
No unfortunately I didn’t as was in North Jersery
Interesting you say that as there’s quite the debate at the moment as to setting up casinos there.
Well, you got me. I’m stumped except for #4.
That film produced a lot of stars didn’t it? I also remember Beckham released a football-training DVD called ‘Really Bend it like Beckham’
And I’ve got…nothin.😰
😦 Do you have a favourite sports film?
Rocky. Which is strange because I hate boxing! I also liked Field of Dreams and Remember the Titans.
Nice choices. How many Rockys have you seen?
Just the first 3. As you can see, I don’t watch a lot of sports movies.
Plenty don’t. I sure wish I’d written Eye of the Tiger. Could’ve retired off of it!
This was fun. I love Gregory’s Girl! I got two wrong though! Sad face.
Highest so far. Well done dude. Gregory’s Girl is a gem. Funny seeing Clare Grogan in cameos like Father Ted and Red Dwarf. Think she was in a music video too.
Man I love that film! It’s nearly perfect and ages so well. That movie is one I love returning to often. I love you quizzes!
Thanks so much dude. As always please feel free to look back over previous ones or suggest future themes.
Count on it!
Oh and if you want to review a foreign film as part of a series I’m running, feel free too.
Really? Cool. There is a Korean film called The Chaser I could review for you.
Sounds perfect. Here’s the link that explains everything. https://alexraphael.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/guest-series-foreign-favourites/
Got it. I’ll write that up soon. I promise. Looking forward to it.
Looking forward to it too 🙂
How do I submit it to you?
Alizarinfalls@gmail.com
Got it. This will be fun. Thanks for the offer.
Great concept. 1/6 for me, though. Haha!
Was a tough category. Which one did you get btw?
Kicking and Screaming, lol!!!
I’m guessing they don’t show it at football training camps ha
Just the second. Actually I think the movie I remember more about football (yeah! I’m from South America) is Shaolin Soccer.
I almost put that one in actually. Would be cool to have one of those Escape to Victory shirts.
2/6. not really my kinda movie 🙂
There were other ones I could have included. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134969/ and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365770/
Not often a sequel gets a higher rating than the original haha.
I managed 2 of these and I have only actually seen 1.
Which two did you get? What sports films do you really like?
I got Fever Pitch and Bend it Like Beckham. To be honest I am not a big fan of sports movies.
Big fail from me – 1/6. But I now really want to see Fever Pitch!
They remade it in the US with baseball, but the original has a certain charm. Great book too btw.
Got the last three. All solid movies, too.
Love sports books and The Damned United really was very powerful. I liked the adaptation too. Really good choices for the main parts.
The only ones I knew were Escape to Victory (it was just called Victory in the U.S.) and Bend It Like Beckham. I never heard of any of the other movies.
What did you think of Bend it like Beckham? Were you surprised that so many of the cast became famous?
I never actually saw the movie, although I’d like to. But, I do know that it has an incredible cast. I had a bit of a crush on Parminda Nagra – especially when she was on E.R.