'All Or Nothing' - discussion of documentary

[Pleatfooted]

You won't like dipperdom episode 7, I was really tempted to hit fast forward.

Ha ,I can feel my temper brewing already!

 

[BlueAnorak]

Manuel Estiarte

Fuck me; we've got an ex water polo player as Fraudiola's chief confidant. It should be someone like Pearcey, a good, honest, proud Englishman and a football person. Get these Spanish chancers out of the club.

I'm still none the wiser as to what he actually does.

Team sports phychology, team preparation, team relationships - a football outsider looking in. Water Polo is the toughest team sport in he world.
Pep appreciates his words of wisdom. Pep wants him, so Pep gets him.

 

[quiet_riot]

Watched the lot and my wife and I really enjoyed it, but, I'll probably not watch it again. It has a handful of revealing moments, most of the Pep team talks are made incomprehensible by bad sound and Pep's all round incomprehensibility, for a documentary about a football team there's very little about football, so anyone coming to it not knowing much about last season probably won't understand just how monumental breaking all those records was.

Nothing about Sergio's taxi accident? I still don't know what Kiddo does, as for the attack on the bus, I'm none the wiser and would it not have added to the story to reveal that Liverpool went on to lose the CL final? Very little of anything was explored in depth, nothing about Pep's relationship with the media, or how the media treats us generally, the poor refereeing, the time wasting, the systematic fouling as a deliberate tactic, or our relationship with the football establishment.

On the whole a piece a corporate fluff sprinkled with fly on the wall camera angles and a bit of swearing, with a narrative bolted on for those who usually watch their sport eating popcorn and swigging Budweiser. There was just enough real stuff to make it look real, but it wasn't.

Oh! And Kingsley narrated it in his sleep.

It serves its purpose and will be consumed all over the world, but as a sports documentary it'll be forgotten.

Tend to agree.

Having watched the NFL docos, they have so much more in them about the people - away from the sport. The manager at home with his wife and dogs, reminiscing about his kids growing up around the sport, the rookie QB settling into a new home surrounded by friends etc etc.

Other than a garish Fernandinho party, Sergio showing some shirts, there wasn'rt much else outside of the football. Not a single thing about Pep when he take a second to switch off, apart from a couple of golf swings...still at the CFA

 

[kaz7]

Watched the lot and my wife and I really enjoyed it, but, I'll probably not watch it again. It has a handful of revealing moments, most of the Pep team talks are made incomprehensible by bad sound and Pep's all round incomprehensibility, for a documentary about a football team there's very little about football, so anyone coming to it not knowing much about last season probably won't understand just how monumental breaking all those records was.

Nothing about Sergio's taxi accident? I still don't know what Kiddo does, as for the attack on the bus, I'm none the wiser and would it not have added to the story to reveal that Liverpool went on to lose the CL final? Very little of anything was explored in depth, nothing about Pep's relationship with the media, or how the media treats us generally, the poor refereeing, the time wasting, the systematic fouling as a deliberate tactic, or our relationship with the football establishment.

On the whole a piece a corporate fluff sprinkled with fly on the wall camera angles and a bit of swearing, with a narrative bolted on for those who usually watch their sport eating popcorn and swigging Budweiser. There was just enough real stuff to make it look real, but it wasn't.

Oh! And Kingsley narrated it in his sleep.

It serves its purpose and will be consumed all over the world, but as a sports documentary it'll be forgotten.

Fucking hell lol,if thats all you got out of it ifeel bad for you

 

[TonyM]

After watching most of the episodes I now fear that Peps time with us and our success is fleeting. The intensity is so high that it surely will burn out soon. IMO we have this season and next season at most before it’ll change significantly.

I hope we are planning ahead.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Fucking hell lol,if thats all you got out of it ifeel bad for you

I consume everything City, I love the club and enjoyed the series but step back a bit and ask yourself, was it that good? You enjoyed it no doubt, as did I, but was it a good sports documentary? As quiet_riot said there was so much it could have done but didn't.

It was a missed opportunity.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Thought Delph was brilliant

 

[whp.blue]

I enjoyed it but couldn't get past Ben Kingsley his voice over made it sound like you were watching an episose of The Office.

 

[Bigga]

I'm only on Ep 1, as my download kept seizing up on me!

So, I'm watching Pep give a training session and he says something along the lines of '...that's for English teams to do, we don't do that!' when it came to play.

Am I reading too much into it or does Pep galvanise the team by making them believe they are not a team in England...?

Super interesting if this is the way he gets his international players to gel!

 

[Gabriel]

Intrigued to see in the early episodes that there was a vacant locker in the dressing room, which was next to the goalkeepers. It was later taken by Laporte so does anyone know if there are empty/unnamed locker spaces this season?