This Sporting Life was directed by someone who was part of the Free Cinema movement.
Jack Gold ( 28 June 1930 -- 9 August 2015 ) was a British film and television director . Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 -- 30 August 1994 ) was a British feature film , theatre and documentary director , film critic , and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave . This Sporting Life . It was directed by Lindsay Anderson .