Wolves Kit Thread

[Johnny75]

Sports films generally make me cringe, especially those that show some ‘action’. I appreciate there will be some reasonable ones, but as a sport nut I’ve seen few

Raging Bull, Warrior, The Fighter, The Natural, Any Given Sunday, The Perfect Game, The Babe, 42, The Damned United and many others.

There are some brilliant sports films. Admittedly not many football films.

 

[Boozad]

Raging Bull, Warrior, The Fighter, The Natural, Any Given Sunday, The Perfect Game, The Babe, 42, The Damned United and many others.

There are some brilliant sports films. Admittedly not many football films.

And no Million Dollar Baby. Fucking heathen.

 

[Johnny75]

I did say many others

 

[BillyDee]

Admittedly not many football films.

Escape to Victory

 

[Kenny]

Ted Lasso isn't really about the football, it's the backdrop but not the narrative of the show. In the same way The Office isn't about selling paper. It's more character and relationship based and is drama with comedy moments not a sitcom.

Would agree fully with this.

I was probably like Dan on the idea of watching Lasso being very low on the list. Football/comedy, i've seen enough to be put off. Plus it is on Apple TV which I didn't have and it didn't appeal to me enough to do a Quirk and borrow it from the internet.

Then I got a free subscription to Apple TV....fuck all on TV, ok lets give this a go. I will know soon enough if its def not for me. Absolutely loved it. Over the 2 seasons, just the one episode I didn't really get on with and that was one of those obvious the budget was running low and they needed a filler episode (bit like when traditional American sitcoms do a flash backs episode to cover that). It was the episode that followed the coach around on a weird night out.

I will say as well, when they do the football action stuff, it is very well done. So easy to get that wrong and most do.

If the opportunity comes along to watch an episode, take it. We have all wasted our time watching stuff we have no clue if we will like it or not (like Paddy with the 100 or the Qatar World Cup...). If you are starting from the point I was when I put it on, I think you will be surprised or call me a twat for insisting you watch it (happy with either outcome tbh)

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Raging Bull, Warrior, The Fighter, The Natural, Any Given Sunday, The Perfect Game, The Babe, 42, The Damned United and many others.

There are some brilliant sports films. Admittedly not many football films.

I’ve seen Raging Bull and The Damned United and agree with you on those, so will certainly look out for the others. Thank you.

 

[SSB]

It's very funny.

I thought it was very good, looking forward to Season 3. I presume with it being on Apple TV it’s gone under the radar a bit in the UK, but I guess it’s massive in America.

 

[leedswolf]

I’ve seen Raging Bull and The Damned United and agree with you on those, so will certainly look out for the others. Thank you.

Some decent comedy sports films out there. 'The Club' (an Aussie movie about AFL) is a good one to watch too. Slapshot is brilliant

 

[leedswolf]

Would agree fully with this.

I was probably like Dan on the idea of watching Lasso being very low on the list. Football/comedy, i've seen enough to be put off. Plus it is on Apple TV which I didn't have and it didn't appeal to me enough to do a Quirk and borrow it from the internet.

Then I got a free subscription to Apple TV....fuck all on TV, ok lets give this a go. I will know soon enough if its def not for me. Absolutely loved it. Over the 2 seasons, just the one episode I didn't really get on with and that was one of those obvious the budget was running low and they needed a filler episode (bit like when traditional American sitcoms do a flash backs episode to cover that). It was the episode that followed the coach around on a weird night out.

I will say as well, when they do the football action stuff, it is very well done. So easy to get that wrong and most do.

If the opportunity comes along to watch an episode, take it. We have all wasted our time watching stuff we have no clue if we will like it or not (like Paddy with the 100 or the Qatar World Cup...). If you are starting from the point I was when I put it on, I think you will be surprised or call me a twat for insisting you watch it (happy with either outcome tbh)

The Christmas special and coach Beard's night out were added because Apple wanted a 12 episode series and the writers had originally penned 10 IIRC.

 

[Kenny]

The Christmas special and coach Beard's night out were added because Apple wanted a 12 episode series and the writers had originally penned 10 IIRC.

Makes sense why so little effort went into the night out one then. Very random episode chucked into the middle of the season

 

[Kenny]

If you want to get annoyed at getting football facts wrong. Watch the English Game on Netflix.

Think its the guy who wrote Downton Abbey behind it, so visually spot on for the period but the football stuff is annoying. So many pointless changes to things that actually happened (years teams won the FA Cup etc) for no reason at all. For something that was built around actual events, even allowing for twisting things to fit into a plot...it was bollocks.

I was so annoyed at that one, I watched it all just so I could bitch about it for hours. Much to the wife's delight...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The Damned United has timelines and events that don't match up to what actually happened but it doesn't detract from the film because it's written and acted so well. I mean it's Michael Sheen.

It's not that football/film and TV *can't* crossover, it's that generally it doesn't. Although When Saturday Comes is funny. It just isn't supposed to be.

 

[Kenny]

The Damned United has timelines and events that don't match up to what actually happened but it doesn't detract from the film because it's written and acted so well. I mean it's Michael Sheen.

So addition to my previous post. The English Game - Fucking awful acting and no Michael Sheen to save it.

 

[pr0sl0]

The night out ep of TL was one of my favourites...

Should not work as a show, at all, for a lot of reasons people have already said. I threw it on during one of the lockdowns - maybe I was more receptive to what it was doing as a result - but also ended up enjoying it a lot (although S2 is generally weaker IMO). Heard this a bunch from other people, too. It's a show about an outsider to football coming into the sport, way out of his depth, but, upon being confronted with everything from cynicism to outright hostility, wears everyone down with sheer persistence in being nice and upbeat. The show does to a lot of viewers what Ted does to a lot of the other characters. Really it's as much if not more a show about how different kinds of masculinity deal with psychological issues like depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc, within a sporting context, as it is about football specifically.

And I usually hate its style of saccharine US sitcom or dramedy shit. Parks & Rec was about my limit, could never get on with stuff like The Office or, more recently, Abbott Elementary. Just too lacking in edge. But Ted Lasso has somehow managed to be a rare exception.

 

[sycophantia]

The Damned United has timelines and events that don't match up to what actually happened but it doesn't detract from the film because it's written and acted so well. I mean it's Michael Sheen.

It's not that football/film and TV *can't* crossover, it's that generally it doesn't. Although When Saturday Comes is funny. It just isn't supposed to be.

Great film The Damned Utd, as you say it's Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall is also good.
My old brain doesn't remember the exact timelines but none of it seemed miles out.
The only slight complaint I have is we didn't get a mention for taking away Leeds championship and handing it to Cloughie's Derby County.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Great film The Damned Utd, as you say it's Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall is also good.
My old brain doesn't remember the exact timelines but none of it seemed miles out.
The only slight complaint I have is we didn't get a mention for taking away Leeds championship and handing it to Cloughie's Derby County.

The Brighton stuff is all over the place, to the point it heavily implies Clough never went there at all. Pretty sure Leeds didn't cripple all Derby's players before their game vs Juventus either.

 

[Jinky]

Quite like this but £75 is madness

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Really liked these but I'm not spending £75 on something I'd rarely wear.

 

[sycophantia]

The Brighton stuff is all over the place, to the point it heavily implies Clough never went there at all. Pretty sure Leeds didn't cripple all Derby's players before their game vs Juventus either.

Absolutely no chance of me remembering that level of detail from 50+ years ago and even less chance of me being arsed to research it
Kudos to you mate

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

I went [for the first time] to see The Damned United at the Market Hall theatre in Shrewsbury (it's also a small cinema) and was shocked when there were about 50 there [it was full and I was on the front row about three feet from the stage, which was six to ten inches high]!

I would say that myself and a mate were probably the only two in the audience who had any idea of the events being acted out or who the characters were. I assume most in there were patrons and watch whatever comes along.

As an irregular/rare theatre goer I was amazed that this seemingly very low budget production only featured three actors and one of them sparingly. They just changed coats and hats and wandered behind a screen and back as a different character. This made is difficult to follow at times and I pretty much knew the story, so goodness knows how the rest of the audience found it. I guess if you're not that bothered what you're watching it doesn't matter!

That said, I still really enjoyed it.

 

[The Bear]

Moneyball is a favourite sports film of mine too. Great stuff from Pitt/Hill.