Life and legacy of first Black football superstar to hit big screen

Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story celebrates the extraordinary life of the West Ham and Bermudian legend.

THE life and legacy of Britain’s first Black football superstar is to hit the big screen when a powerful new sports and social history documentary about footballer Clyde Best makes its highly-anticipated world premiere at Sadler’s Wells East Theatre in London on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 7:30pm, kicking off a one-week run of screenings in the British capital where Best first made his mark as a 17-year-old playing for West Ham United.