Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Jock Stein, European champions from the same tiny region, are lovingly rendered in a smart doc
Though there’s quite a bit of familiar material on show here, this exercise in
Football nostalgia has an interesting, original focus: the three Scottish managers who dominated
British football in the 1960s and who – amazingly – were born within a few dozen miles of each other on the outskirts of Glasgow. The achievements of Matt Busby and Bill Shankly have been fairly comprehensively anthologised, with both covered in recent feature-length documentaries – Busby and Shankly: Nature’s
fire – so it’s the third member of this troika, Jock Stein, who is perhaps the most revelatory figure, relatively speaking.
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