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Have no idea what ours will be like until I watch it.

I find a lot of them to be quite sterile and pretty similar so don't watch them all that much generally nowadays. Even the more entertaining ones in the past like Sunderland Til I Die and the Big Ron Manager one are heavily (and sometimes badly) edited for maximum dramatic affect. I'd even go as far as saying that a lot of the stuff in Big Ron Manager is deliberately engineered by Fry and Atkinson.

The one on Netflix about Figo's transfer from Barca to Real was very interesting, even if it becomes impossible to tell who is telling the truth and who is bullshitting.

This one below is great to watch though, and when you read stuff online about Doncaster's season that season you realise it only scratches the ice. Mad.

One of the best I have seen is called "Brothers in Football". It's about the history of Corinthian Casuals FC and their Brazilian namesakes. The amateur team from London are invited to play a celebratory match in Brazil. Great watch and on YouTube 👍

Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait was very good.

But then it is just watching Zidane play a match to a Mogwai soundtrack, and he gets sent off at the end - great TV.

The ones around now aren't exactly football documentaries, in a pure sense. They're light entertainment which just happens to feature football as the reason for existing.

The one about Corinthians was brilliant, a genuine Amateur Club.

Also saw one about Third Lanark - one of the first British Clubs to go
under due to dodgy owners.

Haven't watched a huge ammount of them to be honest, but I really enjoyed The Two Escobars.

Third Lanark

Off topic but if you're ever in Glasgow its worth a visit to Cathkin Park. Now just public playing fields but most of the old terraces are still there. This was Hampden Park before the current stadium was built

GBlue

Also saw one about Third Lanark - one of the first British Clubs to go
under due to dodgy owners.

Single owner. Bill Hiddleston. Drove them into the ground in order to sell the ground for development. Board of Trade had an inquiry into him when he died. To give an idea how precipitous the fall was, in 1959 they were in the Scottish League Cup final, in 1960 finished third in the league with 100 goals; in 1967, dead.

58 years on, the ground is still there.

Tandy

Third Lanark

Off topic but if you're ever in Glasgow its worth a visit to Cathkin Park. Now just public playing fields but most of the old terraces are still there.

Close to Hampden Park, which holds the Scottish Football Museum, and that's worth a look. One of the exhibits is a letter from 1868 arranging a friendly between the Queen's Park and Thistle clubs. (Thistle had nothing to do with Partick Thistle, their closest lineal descendant is Clyde.) First association match in Scotland.

The best ever one has to be about the millwall fans in the 70s its comedy gold its on youtube might have been on the world in action programme or panorama...

Snoop

Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait was very good.

But then it is just watching Zidane play a match to a Mogwai soundtrack, and he gets sent off at the end - great TV.

The ones around now aren't exactly football documentaries, in a pure sense. They're light entertainment which just happens to feature football as the reason for existing.

What a player, truly amazing. He barely breaks a sweat all game yet he totally bosses it and controls it. Amazing player.

Saw that one last year, very good, a truly mental time at that club

Also enjoyed Four Year Plan, the QPR one

They're definitely better when the owners are mental, incompetent, or both.

Four words, 'bring your f****** dinner!'

The one on Leyton Orient in the 1994-95 season. Manager (John Sitton) completely losing it by about 20 minutes in. I think he got so wrapped up in trying to become A Character that he forgot about the coaching and managing. They went something like 15 games without a win and then beat a non-league side in the Cup - and rather than using that as a jumpoff point to get them back up to winning in the league, he tore them to shreds for not winning by a bigger margin. One half-time team talk consisted of Sitton sacking one player and offering two others out in the car park.

They beat us that season as well IIRC.

that arty farty one about the 66 world cup is good. The best of the lot has to be An Impossible Job




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