Walter: A Life in Football

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Walter: A Life in Football (2021)

Directed by Martin Conaghan

Documentary · 59m

Documentary paying tribute to one of the most successful managers in the history of Scottish football, Walter Smith. A winner as manager for Rangers and Scotland, Walter Smith was a man whose character won respect across the hard tribal lines of our national game. Featuring rare archive, and told with interview contributions from the people who knew him best and who worked with him throughout his long and varied career, the programme explores the numerous successes at Rangers, his experiences as a manager when he headed south to Everton in the English Premiership, his leadership of the Scotland national men’s team and his sensational return to Rangers in 2007. Walter: A Life in Football follows the highs and lows of Smith’s career, exploring the characteristics that made players, fellow managers and supporters venerate him. He was genuinely loved and revered by many, including titans of the game such as Pep Guardiola and Sir Alex Ferguson.

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Cast

Walter Smith Self Graeme Souness Self Wayne Rooney Self Alex Ferguson Self Hugh MacDonald Self Roddy Forsyth Self Richard Gough Self Maurice Malpas Self Stuart McCall Self David Murray Self Jim McLean Self (Archive Footage) Chick Young Self

Crew

Director
Martin Conaghan
Director of Photography
Steven Donnelly
Editor
Sean McGee, Tom Connor
Producer
Neil Sargent, Martin Conaghan

Details

Release date
2021-12-30
Runtime
59m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United Kingdom
Production
Albert Sustainable Production, BBC Scotland