Cert PG
95 mins
BBFC advice: Contains mild bad language
I am sitting in a hotel room in Germany writing about the moment, 50 years ago, that, for once, England held sway over the old enemy on the football pitch.
I have the very vaguest recollections that, when I was three years old, my parents and relatives watched the World Cup final while on holiday in Porthcawl.
But that's it - my first concrete memory of England playing football was the excitement of collecting Esso coins and a sticker album ahead of the 1970 tournament.
I still look back on that World Cup as the very best - even though England succumbed to what would be a familiar tale of disappointment against... guess who?
I digress. Matt Lorenzo, once a regular TV football presenter, co-produced this biopic of the 1966 World Cup captain, Bobby Moore, to coincide with this year's anniversary and I caught up with it on itunes.
In today's world of overblown celebrity it is hard to believe how the only player ever to have lifted the World Cup for England was allowed to drift from public consciousness.
But the fact that Lorenzo had to finance his film through crowd-funding is disappointingly apt.
Moore's story is told through current interviews with both his wives and his daughter, close friends and former team-mates. Unnecessarily, there are contributions from Wayne Rooney and Roy Hodgson - neither of whom would have been fit to lace Moore's proverbial boots.
Bo66y tells how Moore's career with West Ham unfolded before he was picked for England and, ultimately, became its captain.
It includes footage and memories of 1966 but is not just about that World Cup campaign.
And it reveals how Moore, who died in 1993, first fought cancer just over a year BEFORE winning the World Cup and how his team-mates didn't know.
All contributors agreed that he was a wonderful leader of men but the Football Association later snubbed him despite the failure of successive England managers and did not even use him as an ambassador.
There are some very personal contributions in which his battle with depression and, finally, terminal cancer are described.
Director Ron Scalpello tells a powerful story with a light touch but does use a persuasive hammer in making the point that Moore was the first celebrity footballer and one of the few who have actually deserved the tag.
Today's crop of England failures should watch this film. They would learn a lot.
Reasons to watch: the largely untold story of England's greatest football hero
Reasons to avoid: if you are not a football fan
Laughs: a couple of chuckles
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 8/10
Star tweet
Henry WinterCrowd-funding starts Thursday for BO66Y THE MOVIE - The Bobby Moore documentary by Matthew Lorenzo http://kck.st/1N0ATWC #whufc #eng
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