Escape to Victory is probably the greatest football film of all time but which of these players didn't appear in it?
Pelé
Bobby Moore
Ossie Ardiles
Franz Beckenbauer
Sylvester Stallone played the plucky Canadian goalkeeper, but which legend coached and taught him how to be a convincing goalie?
Gordon Banks
Dino Zoff
Jan Tomaszewski
Sepp Maier
Zidane: A 21st Century portrait is a documentary, using 17 cameras, following the French midfielder during a whole game in 2004. What team was he playing against?
Real Madrid
Barcelona
Villarreal
Sevilla
Ex-Crazy gang and Wales midfield hard-man has appeared multiple movies, but in which film did he make his acting debut?
Snatch
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Gone in 60 Seconds
Mean Machine
The Damned United, starring Michael Sheen as Brian Clough during his 44-day stint as manager of Leeds, was released in what year?
2007
2008
2009
2010
Ken Loach directed a film in 2007 which starred Eric Cantona playing a skewed version of himself. What was it called?
Being Cantona
Looking for Eric
Karate Kid Cantona
Le God
The Other Final is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Johan Kramer, about a football match between the two lowest-ranked national teams in the world. Who were they?
Bhutan v Montserrat
Palestine v East Timor
Tibet v Greenland
Sri Lanka v Fiji
Goal!, which features appearances from David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and Luis Figo, is a series of three films about a young Mexican player coming to Europe to try and make it in football. At which club did Santiago Muñez get his first games?
Real Madrid
Real Betis
Arsenal
Newcastle United
Ricky Tomlinson starred as the national team manager in Mike Bassett: England Manager, but from which club in the film did he leave to become the England boss?
Ipswich Town
Norwich City
Burnley
Wigan Athletic
Which actor played Jimmy Muir, a brewery worker who gets plucked from obscurity to play for Sheffield United in the 1996 film When Saturday Comes?
Phillip Glenester
Tom Wilkinson
Mark Addy
Sean Bean
Solutions
1:D, 2:A, 3:C, 4:B, 5:C, 6:B, 7:A, 8:D, 9:B, 10:D
Scores
0 and above.
Prize turkey
1 and above.
A comprehensively failed audition. Find another agent
2 and above.
Don't give up the day job
3 and above.
More Swept Away than bowled away
4 and above.
A straight-to-DVD dud of a performance
5 and above.
You've not done enough to merit a sequel
6 and above.
Mediocre - a bit of a phoned-in performance to be honest
7 and above.
Nominated for a gong, but you've just fallen short
8 and above.
Star of the silver screen - not perfect but you're still box office
9 and above.
Cinema paradiso - you've applied your film geekery wisely
10 and above.
And the Oscar goes to ... you're an unparallelled football celluloid buff