There was so much going on that was centred on the football last season that I'm sure they had to leave a lot of other footage out. It was hardly a "routine" season where the aspects you mention could be included without losing some of the footballing drama.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
Yaya's probably the only one, taken by Mahrez I guess.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?
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.
Haha it really is.Starting episode two now, enjoying it minus the cuts to the fans. Always the weird ones isn’t it.
Bit of a weird one, you would think that Amazon knowing that this is going out worldwide and that City don't have the same exposure as the rags, would probably need some extra work putting in for non-football and casual fans to understand. There's a small feature at the start about how City haven't been as successful as Utd but more should have been done to describe the Premiership, how its different to other leagues and building that up slowly would have had a bigger effect when it came to the end of the season records and especially the way the team played.Tend to agree. It’s enjoyable to watch as a supporter, but I doubt I’d have made it to the end if it had been any other team.
The most interesting bit of this, for me, was when Pep started talking about the records and saying he wouldn't demand any of them but would put them around the CFA for players to look at and use as motivation. When he realised that the players weren't putting in the effort in warm ups and training, he went a full 360 on it and went mental at them, think he said 'i fucking want all the records, i demand it' or something along those lines. Was brilliant to watch.I liked the way Pep motivated them for the records by putting them up and they hit everyone.
I wonder if when the day comes when Pep eventually leaves us it will be Arteta who takes the reins?