
The DailyRecord.co.uk reports that “Victory” has again been voted the all time best football [aka soccer] movie. Here’s what they had to say about the movie:
ESCAPE To Victory has been voted the best football movie of all time by film fans.
The star-studded World War II drama told the story of a team of allied prisoners of war forced to take on the German national squad in a showpiece propaganda match.
But they turn the tables by using the event to plot an escape bid.
The cast featured movie stars Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone, alongside a host of football heroes, including Pele, Bobby Moore, Ossie Ardiles and Scotland’s own John Wark.
The 1981 movie topped a poll of more than 1000 members of DVD rental website LOVEFiLM.com to mark the cinema release today of Brian Clough biopic The Damned United.
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