Arena — Season 1, Episode 503: Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Underground
Documentary • 90 min • 3 seasons, 689 episodes • ★ 7.2/10
Episode synopsis
Sports writer Hugh Mcllvanney presents the first of a trilogy of programmes for the Easter weekend about three great football managers; Matt Busby. Jock Stein and Bill Shankly. Tonight's film takes a look at the early careers of these men, who were born within a few miles of each other in the coal mining district south of Glasgow and who subsequently became folk heroes, known and admired beyond the world of football.
About Arena
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.