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Keep off the pitch: why football makes bad art

by Barney Ronay

Why do so few football transfers to stage and screen hit the back of the net? With Patrick Marber's new changing-room drama at the National Theatre and Bend It Like Beckham in the West End, we wave a red cardFor the next three months Patrick Marber's new play The Red Lionis in rep at the National Theatre. The good news, for those familiar with the football-drama mini-genre, is that it doesn't actually have any footba…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:06pm on June 24, 2015