A new film about legendary manager Brian Clough’s glory years at Nottingham Forest has the support of his family — unlike the previous effort.

I Believe in Miracles, which will have its premiere at Forest’s City Ground on October 11, tells the story of the unprecedented five-year period when Clough took the club from Division Two to the old First Division title and two European Cup successes.

The last attempt to capture Clough on the big screen was the film version of the book The Damned United, which seriously upset his two sons Nigel and Simon for various inaccuracies and highlighting his drinking.

A new film about legendary boss Brian Clough’s glory years at Nottingham Forest has the support of his family

But for this one, the film-maker Jonny Owen brought in all of the 1979 European Cup winners for interviews and also made a point of involving the families of Clough and his managerial partner Peter Taylor, who were given a private screening of the film.

At the end of it, they hugged and the verdict was: ‘Finally, the truth about our fathers.’

Darren Lehmann, no-nonsense Australian cricket coach, cut through the claptrap so often spouted on stage at sports conferences when contributing to a Soccerex debate on what makes a winning sporting culture. He said simply: ‘Winning helps’.

Darren Lehmann was on top form during the Soccerex debate on what makes a winning sporting culture

Andrew Strauss, the director of England cricket who has initiated Test greats such as Sir Ian Botham and Bob Willis talking to the national team this summer, intends to broaden the idea to invite those who might only have won one or two caps to tell their England story and aftermath. The philosophy is ‘once an England player always an England player’.

Strauss (is also the architect — with the other ECB chiefs Tom Harrison and Colin Graves — of a reduced County Championship of 14 games to allow more time for the prioritised white-ball cricket preparation ahead of the 2019 World Cup. Strauss said at Soccerex that a block of limited-overs cricket during the season is imperative and ‘something has to give’.

Andrew Strauss intends to broaden the idea to invite those with just a couple of caps to tell their England story

Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill, knowing that his team are a more attractive proposition if they qualify for Euro 2016, has written again to Crystal Palace’s Connor Wickham, who has 17 England Under 21 caps. He is eligible to play for the Irish through his father Stefan, an army warrant officer.

Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill has once again written to Crystal Palace striker Connor Wickham

Prince Ali of Jordan, who will announce his second bid for the FIFA presidency on Wednesday, has changed his London PR agency from Vero — used for his last failed tilt at the crown — to The PR Office.

Their spin doctors are likely to play a major role in an election campaign already brimming with dirty-tricks allegations with six months still to go.

The latest bombshell came while Ali was being interviewed at the Soccerex conference. Moderator David Davies — twice FA stand-in chief executive — claimed Ali’s main rival Michel Platini had told Sepp Blatter to stay on before telling a packed pre-election Press conference in Zurich last May that he had asked Blatter to go immediately.

Prince Ali of Jordan, who will announce his bid for the FIFA presidency on Wednesday, speaks at Soccerex

When discussing the corruption scandal that has brought FIFA to his knees, Ali claimed: ‘Everything was known within the leadership.’

But there was no mention by Davies, in an otherwise strong interview, of him being a consultant to Jeffrey Webb, seen as Blatter’s heir apparent until facing 17 charges of alleged fraud. Ali showed a lot more confidence in conversation with Davies than he did in his weak speech at the FIFA election Congress.

The Manchester Football Museum, launching a new walk of fame at Soccerex, scored a notable own goal on Monday when they had Sir Bobby Charlton present but were not able to get a single sentence out of him about Wayne Rooney equalling his England goalscoring record.

This would have guaranteed the museum maximum publicity.

The Manchester Football Museum were unable to get a word out of Sir Bobby Charlton about Wayne Rooney