Football Documentaries

SEANoftheDEAD

This new series is starting Monday on Setanta at 9pm.

I reckon it'll be a great watch and insight into the football, lives and culture of the cities Eric will be covering in the 6 part series.


Has anyone got any recommendations for other football documentaries?

The Two Escobars is my favourite. So something along them lines would be great.

dreamers75

30 for 30 on ESPN

Think they are on US netflix, well worth a watch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_for_30#List_of_30_for_30:_Soccer_Stories_films

There really needs to be a Yugoslavia one made tho.

SEANoftheDEAD

dreamers75 wrote: »

30 for 30 on ESPN

Think they are on US netflix, well worth a watch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_for_30#List_of_30_for_30:_Soccer_Stories_films

There really needs to be a Yugoslavia one made tho.

Savage man thanks.

I'll definitely be checking all these out.

losthorizon

dreamers75 wrote: »

30 for 30 on ESPN

Think they are on US netflix, well worth a watch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_for_30#List_of_30_for_30:_Soccer_Stories_films

There really needs to be a Yugoslavia one made tho.

There really needs to be an Irish one made - its fascinating stuff.

IrishIrish

losthorizon wrote: »

There really needs to be an Irish one made - its fascinating stuff.

There is. Was aired last month http://balls.ie/news/espn-making-30-30-documentary-irelanditaly-loughinisland-massacre/

liamygunner29

Watched '4 year plan' recently.

About QPRS' take over. Unreal stuff from behind the scenes was thoroughly enjoyable and something I hope to watch again. Great insight into the running of a football club, hiring and firing managers and a whole host of madness. Pretty honest as well, most of the guys in it are not there anymore so there seems to be very little filtering of content.

You can get it on netflix.

Here is the trailer:

losthorizon

IrishIrish wrote: »

There is. Was aired last month http://balls.ie/news/espn-making-30-30-documentary-irelanditaly-loughinisland-massacre/

I remember that - horrible. was that programme any good?


I was thinking more about the 1920s and 30s.

The_Kew_Tour

love to see it

losthorizon

Actually found one about made by RTE in the 1970s about Shels. It features Turners Cross. Its unrecognizable except for the houses and the church in the distance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM0q8EJqhqI

Ranchu

Most of the 30 for 30's are on youtube. Great films.

Ulysses Gaze

Saw a documentary on RTE 2 years ago called The Last Yugoslav Football team which was excellent. It was about the great young Yugoslavia team that won the youth world cup in 1987 in Chile and all the expectations they had about what would happen at senior level until the Bosnian wars broke out and they were kicked out of Euro '92.

The team that could have had the best of the Croats who finished third in the World at France 1998 with the best of the Serb team (Mijatovic, Mihajlovic, Stojkovic, Savicevic etc) and Slovenes, Macedonians and Bosnians.

It is pretty much impossible to track down with English subtitles though but if you can find it, it is fantastic.

Zaph

I haven't seen it yet, but Next Goal Wins is supposed to be excellent. It's about the worst international team in the world, American Samoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIeKkjJNM6A

simonw

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Saw a documentary on RTE 2 years ago called The Last Yugoslav Football team which was excellent. It was about the great young Yugoslavia team that won the youth world cup in 1987 in Chile and all the expectations they had about what would happen at senior level until the Bosnian wars broke out and they were kicked out of Euro '92.

The team that could have had the best of the Croats who finished third in the World at France 1998 with the best of the Serb team (Mijatovic, Mihajlovic, Stojkovic, Savicevic etc) and Slovenes, Macedonians and Bosnians.

It is pretty much impossible to track down with English subtitles though but if you can find it, it is fantastic.

i've been looking for it with English subs for years, no luck at all

Agent Coulson

If anyone has the US Netflix they have just put up all their 30 for 30 football stories.

Zebra3

losthorizon wrote: »

Actually found one about made by RTE in the 1970s about Shels. It features Turners Cross. Its unrecognizable except for the houses and the church in the distance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM0q8EJqhqI

It's from 1974/75 afaik.

IanOBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PiK7J2I_98

An Irishman's TV show in Spain made a documentary about the 2010 Copa Mundial.

losthorizon

Zidane: A 21st century portrait.

Skid X

Graham Taylor: An Impossible Job is as close as most of us will ever get to the International Dugout. An eye opening fly on the wall doc about a decent man who had no idea how to coach an International team

Paully D

Skid X wrote: »

Graham Taylor: An Impossible Job is as close as most of us will ever get to the International Dugout. An eye opening fly on the wall doc about a decent man who had no idea how to coach an International team

I thought that was Mike Bassett? :pac:

Koeman scoring the opener when he should have been sent off just sums up Taylor's reign.

Dozen Wicked Words

Football diaries, which was a series of documentaries on BBC about 10 years ago were excellent. Remember one being particularly good with Ian Ridley trying to save Weymouth from oblivion with Steve Claridges help as manager.

There was Big Ron Manager, fly on the wall doc on Ron Atkinson trying to do something with Peterborough, not high class by any means but fairly insightful.

kfallon

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

There was Big Ron Manager, fly on the wall doc on Ron Atkinson trying to do something with Peterborough, not high class by any means but fairly insightful.

Sean St Ledger came across as a right little bollix in that!

Ulysses Gaze

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Football diaries, which was a series of documentaries on BBC about 10 years ago were excellent. Remember one being particularly good with Ian Ridley trying to save Weymouth from oblivion with Steve Claridges help as manager.

There was Big Ron Manager, fly on the wall doc on Ron Atkinson trying to do something with Peterborough, not high class by any means but fairly insightful.

Remember that one.

The manager, Steve Bleasdale, was doing a fine job until Big Ron showed up. Barry Fry, who was the owner at the time, needed the cash from Sky to keep the club afloat so he agreed to allow Ron get involved. The whole thing became a train wreck and Bleasdale resigned just before kick off in a game!

The publicity generated actually worked for Posh because their current owner, Darragh MacAnthony, saw the program and decided to buy the club thus saving them.

Another interesting lower league documentary is Orient -Club for a Fiver. The documentary that introduced the world to the 'legendary' John 'And ya can bring ya facking dinner' Sitton. If you want to see a program charting a lower-league managers descent into madness...this is the one:

Zebra3

Saw the one on Bayern's team of the 70s earlier on Sky.

Hilarious what happened the day after their first EC win . :pac:

Oat23

Al Jazeera have a series called Football Rebels which is decent.

As the global sporting world faces one corruption scandal after another, former Manchester United star Eric Cantona presents the stories of five football heroes whose social conscience led them to challenge unjust regimes, join opposition movements and lead the fight for democracy and human rights. Football Rebels looks at a side of football that does not always make the headlines.

Here is the episode on Drogba.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/footballrebels/2013/03/201336105035488821.html

An episode about Socrates is airing in a few days.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I watched this the other night, gives a good insight to Millwall's hooligan problems in the 70s, some real characters/thugs in it.:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKoYjOGOzXQ

Looper007

Great documentary on first openly gay footballer and first black million pound player and brother of John, it's worth watching of how money and fame can be someone's downfall. John is brutally honest out his and his brother's downfalls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8lUe59EP84

Brilliant documentary on Fascism use and abuse of Football ruined and won many people over, Shows the power Football has then and even now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS0yeCONIaM

Looper007

Zebra3 wrote: »

Saw the one on Bayern's team of the 70s earlier on Sky.

Hilarious what happened the day after their first EC win . :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxvsv39FR6U

SEANoftheDEAD

http://vimeo.com/72974545

Football Outposts.

Great documentary by BT Sport.
Well worth a watch.

batistuta9

SEANoftheDEAD wrote: »

http://vimeo.com/72974545

Football Outposts.

Great documentary by BT Sport.
Well worth a watch.

there's a european one too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKEQwbuMQX8

anyone watch the one on wimbledon?

Kirby

batistuta9 wrote: »

anyone watch the one on wimbledon?

Yes, and it was fairly disgusting to listen to.

It made me very sorry for some of the young players that weren't in the tough guy clique and the abuse they had to put up with. Way beyond "banter" or hazing. Sticking one of your own team mates in the boot of a car for a night or following him around for 3 days making sure he didn't eat anything is way beyond that.

Clearly that sort of stuff was exaggerated, but it's obvious they were utter c*nts to their own teammates. Dish out whatever you want to the opposition....but a "team" they most certainly were not.

Fashanu was a joke and its clear when you listen to him he's delusional. There is no doubt when you listen to guys like John Scales talk that he was terrorized by them. I felt very sorry for him.

Green Giant

Can't find it anywhere online but I remember ITV had a programme charting the fortunes of Swansea City (it aired shortly before the start of the 2013/14 season) and I thought it was an excellent watch.

The one part I always recall is the guy who queued up for a ticket for their match v Hull in 2003 where Swansea had to win to stay in the Football League. His photo was on the front page of the local paper showing him in the queue and he got the sack over it for skipping work.

Lucas Hood

Kirby wrote: »

Yes, and it was fairly disgusting to listen to.

It made me very sorry for some of the young players that weren't in the tough guy clique and the abuse they had to put up with. Way beyond "banter" or hazing. Sticking one of your own team mates in the boot of a car for a night or following him around for 3 days making sure he didn't eat anything is way beyond that.

Clearly that sort of stuff was exaggerated, but it's obvious they were utter c*nts to their own teammates. Dish out whatever you want to the opposition....but a "team" they most certainly were not.

Fashanu was a joke and its clear when you listen to him he's delusional. There is no doubt when you listen to guys like John Scales talk that he was terrorized by them. I felt very sorry for him.

Haven't seen it myself but Terry Gibson says a lot of it was bs.

http://www.terrygibson.london/#!Crazy-Gang-Documentary/c1zqn/90957FC4-BAF2-4F60-8BCE-D4094277F586

Alonso77

Kirby wrote: »

Yes, and it was fairly disgusting to listen to.

It made me very sorry for some of the young players that weren't in the tough guy clique and the abuse they had to put up with. Way beyond "banter" or hazing. Sticking one of your own team mates in the boot of a car for a night or following him around for 3 days making sure he didn't eat anything is way beyond that.

Clearly that sort of stuff was exaggerated, but it's obvious they were utter c*nts to their own teammates. Dish out whatever you want to the opposition....but a "team" they most certainly were not.

Fashanu was a joke and its clear when you listen to him he's delusional. There is no doubt when you listen to guys like John Scales talk that he was terrorized by them. I felt very sorry for him.

Having watched it I did indeed find "Fash" to be a particularly odd fellow.

batistuta9

there was one on last night on itv4, When Football Changed Forever, it's about the story of the 91/92 season and the setup of the premier league.

decent show, some interesting stuff about the PL & those behind it - the big 5 of arsenal, tottenham, man u, l'pool & everton. court battles, potential PFA strikes, supporters protesting about ticket prices, itv vs sky.
the football really focuses on leeds/man u title battle, some saint & greavsy, donald trump making the draw for the league cup :pac: & a live feed from lee chapmans house after winning the title - which needs to be seen.

it's on again next wednesday

batistuta9

Ronaldo (2015 one) is on itv4 at 10

batistuta9

On @ 10 BBC 4
Forever Pure - football and racism in Jerusalem

Follows events at Israeli club beitar Jerusalem the only club in the premier league never to sign an Arab player

Oat23

batistuta9 wrote: »

On @ 10 BBC 4
Forever Pure - football and racism in Jerusalem

Follows events at Israeli club beitar Jerusalem the only club in the premier league never to sign an Arab player

I can already see the tweets accusing the BBC of being anti-semitic.

Jelle1880

batistuta9 wrote: »

On @ 10 BBC 4
Forever Pure - football and racism in Jerusalem

Follows events at Israeli club beitar Jerusalem the only club in the premier league never to sign an Arab player

Saw that. I never knew that those 2 Chechen players were basically only signed for the owner's profit, I genuinely thought he wanted to break that barrier of never signing a Muslim player.

batistuta9

is it any good? I didn't get round to watching it yet but seen a minute or two at the start, looked interesting enough.