Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Tucked away within the Sky On Demand offerings is a very good 90m documentary on Justin Fashanu called 'Forbidden Games', which I watched last night.
It starts with his early childhood with his brother John when they were abandoned by their mother, then his football career on and off the field, and of course the tragic ending. It has interviews with his mother, John, sisters, friends, agents, managers, team mates etc, and loads of fascinating footage and news reports back from the 80s and 90s, showing the extraordinary intolerance towards gays during that era, primarily fuelled by the media and the fear of AIDS. Its a tragic story, as you see gradually one by one so many people in his life turn their back on him. He never came to terms with his mother leaving him, and then after he came out, when his own brother pretty much disowned him, its not difficult to see why it ended how it did.
There's some amazing revelations that I was completely unaware of, and fair to say Brian Clough does not come out of this story with much credit at all. BTW - there's literally zero mention of BHA, but then his 16 appearances here would only have been a small footnote in a long journeyman career taking in 20-odd clubs over 20 years - but don't go in expecting any archive Goldstone footage. There's none.
A very well put together doc though IMO. Well worth your attention.
It starts with his early childhood with his brother John when they were abandoned by their mother, then his football career on and off the field, and of course the tragic ending. It has interviews with his mother, John, sisters, friends, agents, managers, team mates etc, and loads of fascinating footage and news reports back from the 80s and 90s, showing the extraordinary intolerance towards gays during that era, primarily fuelled by the media and the fear of AIDS. Its a tragic story, as you see gradually one by one so many people in his life turn their back on him. He never came to terms with his mother leaving him, and then after he came out, when his own brother pretty much disowned him, its not difficult to see why it ended how it did.
There's some amazing revelations that I was completely unaware of, and fair to say Brian Clough does not come out of this story with much credit at all. BTW - there's literally zero mention of BHA, but then his 16 appearances here would only have been a small footnote in a long journeyman career taking in 20-odd clubs over 20 years - but don't go in expecting any archive Goldstone footage. There's none.
A very well put together doc though IMO. Well worth your attention.
