Vinnie Jones: My family life
The actor and former footballer talks about his familyMy parents split when I was 13. For a youngster it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes. My mum was working in a nursing home so she moved in there and ...
Football focus: Queens Park Rangers’ Four Year Plan on film
Mat Hodgson's new film about the takeover of QPR is dynamite – a rare chance to witness the sparks that fly when business, football and machismo meetIt feels wholly appropriate to be talking to Mat Hodgson the day after Queens Park Rangers sacked the...
When Tom Cruise met David Beckham: what movie should they make together?
The Mission: Impossible 4 actor says he wants to make a film with his footballer friend. But what should it be? Go on, pitch your ideas hereHe may have spent a few years in the wilderness, but the imminent release of Mission: Impossible 4 marks Tom Cru...
George Clooney and Cristiano Ronaldo star in Berlusconi trial witness list
Ruby Heartstealer – Karima El Mahroug who denies underage sex with Italy's ex-PM – and 32 young women listed to appearIt could be the cast for a remake of one of those 60s classical epics: George Clooney as one of the stars, together with a former ...
Alastair Campbell campaigns for the return of the Todmorden Curve
Burnley had a share in five Oscars this year - yet you can't even get to the place (and the Clarets' home games) on a direct train from ManchesterThe north's rail network is full of curious stretches left over from the high noon of competition, most of...
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A season of football films in London; a Critics' Circle award for Ken Loach; and a pair of great ape moviesCan I kick it?As the new football season raises its curtain, the team sheet for the UK's first football film festival is looking tasty. Kicking a...
The Referees – review
This French documentary, the lingua franca of which is Euro-England, is an impressionistic account of half-a-dozen football referees as they go about their duties during the 2008 European Championship finals in Austria and Switzerland. This is the even...
The readers’ room | What you thought of G2 this week
Hen-keepers flock together, Hollywood rom-coms strike a blow against gender equality – and Beckham's pants✒ Let's begin with the chicken and the egg. On Tuesday, Leo Hickman came out as one of 500,000 Britons keeping hens. "There's just no going ba...
The Referees – review
This very diverting film gives us a quasi-telepathic access to the tense, internal world of a group of football refs during Euro 2008They have a strange tendency to run backwards. Why? This documentary on international football referees doesn't say. Bu...
Sir Geoff Hurst crosses the line into film with acting role
Three-goal hero of England's 1966 World Cup win set to play football agent in Danny Donnelly's new film Payback SeasonThe England World Cup-winning striker Sir Geoff Hurst has signed up for a role in a new British film about a young man who swaps life ...
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Ayrton Senna's greatest rival emerges from obscurity, Oxford's pub life is corrupted, and Bolton supporters bask in their club's heroic war effortWandering freeMakers of a film about the heroic exploits of Bolton Wanderers FC during the second world wa...
French game given timely lift by a fictional All Black | Richard Williams