About First World Cup (1910)|||The World Cup: A Captain's Tale (1982)
The true story of the First world footballing competition, won by a bunch of miners from Durham. Won it three times and beat the likes of Juventus to retain the cup in perpetuity
Stars Dennis Waterman, who was at the top of his fame in the early eighties and is a classic. The tragedy is that it is so little known and seemingly never repeated as it was an excellent story, and well told. There are echoes of `Auf Wiedersehen Pet' as we see supposedly simple Northern chaps exposed to a seemingly more sophisticated European society, and ultimately overcoming all to win. If it comes around again sometime take the chance to check it out|||A Captain's Tale". It was the true story of West Auckland F.C., a part-time side who won the 'first' World Cup, known as the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy. Waterman played the part of Bob Jones , the Club Captain.|||The World Cup: A Captain's Tale. The one where a bunch of miners from the North East win the world cup!|||the world cup a captains tale perhaps.|||a captain's tale
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