Clubs
Dynasties, derbies and identity: the institutions people inherit rather than choose. From Real Madrid's European Cup run through Liverpool under Shankly to the clubs whose rivalries outlast every player who passes through them.
Part of Football
17 moments in this segment.
- - Colour Film of Burnley Against Manchester United, 1957. Amateur colour film of the match at Turf Moor in Burnley on 19 April 1957, shot by the local filmmaker Sam Hanna. It shows the Manchester United side of that season on the pitch and in the ground less than a year before the Munich crash, and colour footage of English league football from this period is very unusual.
- - The 1967 Charity Shield at Old Trafford. Goals from the Charity Shield between league champions Manchester United and FA Cup holders Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford in August 1967, a 3-3 draw in which the shield was shared. The match is best remembered for a goal scored by the Spurs goalkeeper.
- - The funeral of Santiago Bernabeu. Agency film of the funeral in Madrid in June 1978 for Santiago Bernabeu, the president who rebuilt Real Madrid after the civil war, signed Di Stefano and Puskas and put up the stadium that carries his name. He died during the World Cup in Argentina.
- - Inside the dressing room after the 1999 final. Camcorder footage from the Manchester United dressing room immediately after the 1999 European Cup final in Barcelona, with the trophy in the room and the players still in kit. An unpolished view of the minutes that broadcast coverage never reaches.
- - Inter Against Fiorentina, Serie A 1998-99. Broadcast highlights from a Serie A meeting between Inter and Fiorentina in the 1998-99 season, with Ronaldo leading the Inter attack and Gabriel Batistuta leading Fiorentina's. It is a snapshot of the period when Italy's league gathered more of the world's best forwards than any other.
- - Anfield from Shankly to Houllier. A Liverpool club history made in 2000, built from footage and interviews spanning four decades of managers from Bill Shankly to Gerard Houllier. Because it was produced at the time, it carries the voices and the visual language of the era it describes.
- - Leicester City confirmed as champions. Broadcast footage from May 2016 of the moment Leicester City were confirmed as Premier League champions, decided by a match they were not playing in. The reaction is the record of how implausible the result still felt as it happened.
- - Leicester City's Title Season, 2015-16. Extended match footage following Leicester City through the Premier League season they won as rank outsiders, from the early results nobody took seriously to the title itself. It remains the clearest modern case of a league being won outside the group of clubs that can afford to win it.
- - Leicester City win the league. The story of Leicester City's 2015-16 season, from a side that had escaped relegation the year before to champions of England. It is the clearest modern counter-example to the idea that the Premier League title is decided by spending alone.
- - Bill Shankly at Liverpool. Liverpool's own film on Bill Shankly, who took over a Second Division club in 1959 and rebuilt not only the team but its relationship with the supporters and the city. His legacy at Anfield is treated here as cultural as much as it was about trophies.
- - Leicester City's title-winning season. The club's own feature-length account of Leicester City winning the 2015/16 Premier League, told by the players and staff who were there. It follows a side that had been fighting relegation a year earlier through the season that made them champions of England.
- - Bill Shankly and the making of Liverpool. A portrait of the fifteen years in which Shankly took Liverpool from the Second Division to the top of English football. It looks at what he changed at the club beyond results, including the relationship he built with the supporters.
- - Liverpool's Early Years, 1892 to 1959. A narrated history of Liverpool Football Club's first decades, from its founding at Anfield in 1892 after the split with Everton through to the end of the 1950s. It covers how a club formed out of a landlord dispute established itself in the English league before the era that made it famous.
- - The Seven Sisters of Serie A. An account of the period when seven Italian clubs were strong enough that winning Serie A was harder than winning Europe. It looks at how Milan, Juventus, Inter, Roma, Lazio, Fiorentina and Parma were all able to buy at the top of the market at the same time.
- - The Founding of Real Madrid. A short history of how Real Madrid was formed in 1902 by students and enthusiasts in the capital, and of the decisions that turned it into the club with the deepest record in European competition. It covers the Bernabeu era and the modern club that followed.
- - The Story of Crystal Palace. A history of Crystal Palace, a club whose name and origins trace back to the Victorian exhibition building and its grounds in south London. It follows the club through financial crises, relegations, cup runs and its modern return to the top flight.
- - Bill Shankly at Liverpool. An account of what Bill Shankly found when he arrived at Anfield in December 1959, with Liverpool in the Second Division and the ground and training facilities neglected, and of how he rebuilt the club over the following fifteen years. It covers the boot room, the promotion side and the culture he left behind.
