Now we’ve done best albums, what about best films. No restriction to British films here, these are my best films of the decade
1. The Motorcycle Diaries
2. City of God
3. Amelie
4. Billy Elliot
5. Million Dollar Baby
6. Hotel Rwanda
7. Kill Bill
8. Borat
9. Ray
10 Everything Is Illuminated
What are yours ?
Anyone seen this yet ?
There has been a lot of controversy about it, maybe some of it isn’t accurate, maybe the theme of his alcoholism is overdone, maybe some of the conversations never took place. But it certainly took me back to when I was a young boy just getting into my football.
The thuggery of the 1970s Leeds team was really something - not sure Bremner, hunter, Charlton and co would have got through many games now. I remembered the Charity Shield final, the fight between Keegan and Bremner, his sacking after 44 days, his success at Derby.
But the one thing that comes across all the way through is the genius of Cloughie. I didn’t think the film would be able to get that across believably, but it does. And you know all the way through, that whatever happens at Leeds, what comes next is that he takes Nottingham Forest from the bottom of the second division, and turns them into European champions two years in a row.
Here is Johnny Giles’s view – and yes, he and his team mates don’t come across too well. But then again, Cloughie does get the last laugh on them all.