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Top Ten Soccer Movies

• Escape to Victory (1981)

• Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

• Das Wunder von Bern (The Miracle of Bern) 2003)

• My Name is Joe (1998)

• Mean Machine (2001)

• The Match (1999)

• Ladybugs (1992)

• When Saturday Comes (1996)

• A Shot at Glory (2000)

• Phörpa (The Cup)

Who were Mitchell & Kenyon?

The Mitchell & Kenyon film company was a pioneer of early commercial movies. Based in Blackburn in Lancashire, England, at the start of the twentieth century, they were best known for minor fictional narrative films. In 1994, a hoard of 800 Mitchell & Kenyon film negatives were discovered and restored. Amongst this collection are numerous films documenting soccer matches between English FA teams just after the turn of the century. The films are in storage at the British Film Institute, but can be viewed on YouTube.com

What are WAGs?

WAGs is an acronym created by the British tabloid press to mean Soccer “wives and girlfriends.” The acronym has been in use since 1994, but became extremely popular during the 2006 World Cup, in Germany, when the press gave increasing gossip coverage to the socializing and shopping activities of the English WAGs, who were based in the German town of Baden Baden.