As someone with zero interest in football, I found this genial account of Brian Clough’s trophy-winning tenure at Nottingham Forest divertingly nostalgic. Interspersing contemporary interviews with splendid 70s footage, actor-turned-director Jonny Owen evokes a poptastic world in which top-level athletes enjoyed chips, wine and a ciggie as a pre-match sharpener and training consisted of “a little fat guy” running around in a nettle patch. Split screens, bubble perms and baldness abound, buoyed up by a jukebox collection of tunes (from Heatwave to Velvet Underground), a collage of “Jap sub sinks Forest!” headlines and TV spots of Cloughie doing an uncanny impression of Michaels Sheen and Parkinson.
