![]() ![]() In the nineties, Doncaster Rovers was a proper basket case of a football club. (Unfortunately the full documentary has since been deleted from YouTube, but you can still watch it on Dailymotion).ġ0 must-watch football shows and films you can stream right now They Think It’s All Rover We spoke to John Sitton about his career and that incident on our podcast in 2017: In an attempt to get something, anything out of his players, the Hackney-born Londoner tears strips out of the squad in an infamous diatribe in which he bizarrely tells two players to “bring yer fackin’ dinner, because by the time I’m finished with ya you’ll fackin’ need it.” It would be enough to drive any manager demented, and Sitton was no different. So let’s raise a glass to these magnificent pieces of work and pay tribute to the hours of entertainment they have given and will continue to give to us. This genre really exploded in the nineties after the success of the documentary following England’s failed USA 94 qualifying campaign (more on that in a moment) and we were bombarded with similar efforts throughout the decade – probably too many, in fact.įatigue eventually set in among the viewers and we didn’t see very many of them produced in the following two decades, the excellent Four Year Plan in 2011 being a glorious exception. ![]() We’ve gone behind the scenes at Man City, Leeds United, Borussia Dortmund and, most entertainingly, Sunderland, with a Spurs effort on the way as well. The recent resurgence of the fly-on-the-wall football documentary has been a welcome development, giving viewers an insight into the inner workings of some of the modern game’s biggest clubs. While we’re all stuck inside self-isolating due to the coronavirus pandemic with no live football on, we might as well occupy ourselves with some classic fly-on-the-wall football documentaries from the nineties – all of which are available to watch right now on YouTube. ![]()
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