Click through the gallery below to view our picks of the good, the bad, and the ugly of football films…
The Good: I Believe in Miracles
If you know your football (and quite possibly even if you don't), you'll know the name Brian Clough. The legendary manager was on a potential downward spiral having been sacked as manager of Leeds after less than a month and a half in 1974. But after being appointed manager of Nottingham Forest, then in the second division, there began a sequence of events that culminated in the team winning an unprecedented two consecutive European Cups, one of the greatest achievements in the sport's history. The film, which has received hearty praise from the press, tells the story of this remarkable feat, and includes interviews with all of the team's players.
I Believe in Miracles is in cinemas 13 October. For more info, visit ibelieveinmiraclesfilm.com
The Bad: Goal!
The attempt to chronicle the story of a (fictional) footballer making his way to the Premier League (and then on to Real Madrid in the trilogy's second instalment Goal! II: Living the Dream) was a worthy one, but ultimately it fell pretty much completely flat. What could have been a genuinely interesting study of modern football told through the eyes of a talent caught in the middle ended up overacted, not particularly believable, and, in the trilogy's most ridiculous moment, featured a Champions League final that featured a Madrid team made up of 15 players, all on the pitch at once. "No one'll notice," they said, presumably. Unfortunately for them, everyone did.
For more info, visit disney.co.uk
Touchstone/The Kobal Collection/Daniel, Liam
The Ugly: United Passions
With Fifa all over the press for just the wrong reasons at the minute, it seems the absolute disaster that is United Passions escaped the attention of most. The film, a totally self-aggrandising look at the inner workings of football's highest governing body, was an absolute lead balloon of a release: there's the fact that it's rated at 0% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the fact it took in a paltry $918 (making it officially the lowest grossing film in US box office history) from a reported £25m budget, or the fact that its director has distanced himself as much as possible, going as far as to tell The Guardian: "Please don't make me the guy responsible for the fact that Fifa is rotten." Still, we can imagine it's the last of Sepp Blatter's problems right now.
For more info, visit imdb.com
Leuviah Films/Thelma Films/The Kobal Collection/Koskas, David
