Football Episodes

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! In today's episode, we're diving into the charming British coming-of-age comedy, The Bromley Boys (2018), directed by Steve M Kelly. This film offers a nostalgic look at football fandom in late 1960s Britain, capturing the highs and lows of supporting the underdog. Setting the Scene: A Teenage Obsession Set in the suburbs of London during the late 1960s, The Bromley Boys follows 15-year-old David "Dave" Roberts, portrayed by Brenock O'Connor. Dave becomes...

Welcome back to another episode of Bad Dads Film Review! Today, we're tackling an iconic blend of sports drama and wartime heroics with the 1981 classic, Escape to Victory. Escape to Victory, directed by John Huston, is a film that intriguingly merges the worlds of World War II POW camps with the beautiful game of football (soccer, for our American friends). The movie is set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Europe, where a group of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) are roped into playing an ex...

As the Europeans deify another bunch of hopelessly overpaid man-children so too the Bad Dads cash in with an episode devoted to that most infantile of sports, football. Bad Dad Dan is something of a football fanatic and has a touch of pedigree himself having played football under West Ham's very first attacking full-back/Manager, Syd King in 1902. The beautiful game lit a spark in Dan that could not be extinguished, which is how we end up here almost 120 years later with The Top 5 Movie With Bal...