Million Spectators Welcome Return of Football

Flush on wages of £160 per week, George Best ponders money in the game, the pressures of fame and his footballing future.

Don Revie sits in bed talking to the Sunday papers, barks out instructions in a game at Liverpool, calls out the bingo numbers, and Terry Yorath collects his weekly pay packet.

"The way we're playing I don't want to see an awful lot of them". Typically blunt words from Brian Clough as his team prepare for a visit by Leeds United.

A snapshot of Saturday afternoon football watched by thousands of adoring fans, plus contrasting scenes of Southport and Spurs players in training.

Clement Freud explores the importance of football to the people of Liverpool - be they backing Liverpool or Everton in the FA Cup.

England's 1966 hat-trick hero doesn't sweat the small stuff - or at all, according to this deodorant commercial.

A little piece of football history from the people's game: possibly the earliest surviving game on film

An Edwardian First Division football match played at Blackburn's Ewood Park Stadium.

Blackburn Rovers play at home at Ewood Park to an unidentified team in an Edwardian football fixture.

The entry of the teams and action from both halves of an Edwardian football game at Ewood Park.

Harry Wallace, a student at Northumbria university, explains why Sean Baker's LA-set comedy-drama, about a transgender sex worker on the hunt for her cheating -ex, is worth your time. 

Daniel Craig talks to Mark Kermode about his acting career, from his early role in Love is the Devil through to the Luca Guadagnino directed Queer.

Adam Smith of Northumbria University explains why Andrea Arnold's coming-of-age story, about a girl who uses dance to escape, is his favourite film on BFI Player.

Noah Ball of Northumbria University explains why you should seize the chance to watch Nicolas Winding Refn's debut.

Kyle MacLachlan talks to BFI CEO Ben Roberts about working with David Lynch on the legendary series Twin Peaks.

Writer-director Laura Carreira talks to Nia Childs about her debut feature, On Falling.