is how Brian Glanville sees contemporary sportsmen in this series of highly personal films

The novelist and sports writer Brian Glanville fears that the real value of sport is being undermined by the demands and tensions of our competitive society. The danger-signals are most in evidence in the worlds of football and athletics. He believes that as attention focuses on the FA Cup Final, the World Cup, and preparations for the 1972 Olympic Games we ought to look beyond the headlines and consider what we are doing to our sporting heroes - and what they are doing to us.
Among those taking part:
international footballers Francis Lee, Pat Crerand and Charlie Cooke
athletics coaches Ron Pickering and Geoff Dyson
Britain's Olympic Captain at Tokyo Robbie Brightwell and his wife Ann Packer
and the former Captain of England and Arsenal Eddie Hapgood