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The professional manager, a real-life or fictionalised touchline figure throughout the genre, moved centre screen in a series of new-millennium football films which, as with The Damned United (2009), explore the psychological demands of the game and the discrete character of the Home Nations as evidenced in football allegiances.
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Glynn, S. (2018). Managers. In: The British Football Film. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77727-6_4
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