'All Or Nothing' - discussion of documentary

From the Guardian match preview.......

......City should still win comfortably unless the stardom generated by the documentary series everyone is talking about goes to their heads. Graham Searles
 
Mayor West said:
I'm not watching episode 7, want to complete forget that shit week even existed. Only on episode 4 atm anyway. It's ok but being completey overhyped by some on here!
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Nah! Watch it!

Immensely worth seeing how we responded to that! It was a dreadful moment for us, but seeing it gives one of the best bits to see insight into the character of everyone which I think provides hope over the long term.
 
Watched all the episodes now and for a fan i'd give it 9/10. It lost a mark because i couldn't understand Pep's tactics on the white board, he moved the counters around too quickly. I reckon any non Spainish players would take a good few months to figure out what he was on about. I agree there was a bit too much of the little ginger kid, but you could have said that about Walker and Delph, some players didnt feature too much. I think most football fans would find it good to watch. There will be the jealous ones that will slag it off as pure marketing spin ( and it is ) and laugh during episode 7 but heard all that before and will continue to hear it. Losing to United , Wigan and Liverpool added to the story . It would only have been surpassed if we had won everything last year and the players need to watch it to avoid complacency. The journos that want to write about the regime in UAE regime should really just do a political piece but i guess no one will read it if it ain't connected to a high profile series such as this
 
Fantastic look into the world of a football club,especially in the changing/locker room,two parts strangely stood out for me and they could be seen as negatives,the episode were pep and a couple of backroom staff in the changing rooms at Everton talking about Liverpool and how dangerous their attack is,for me that’s only transmitting your fear onto the players going into that game,then after the derby defeat in the changing room Delph pipes up about getting back to basics after conceding,telling he mentions “every time we concede we seem to freeze”.Just to small negatives in what was a brilliantly done series by Amazon,laughed my head off at Mendy running behind the physio when he was talking to the bloke about Mendy’s recovery,physio “he should start running by next week” psml...
 
Shirley said:
From the Guardian match preview.......

......City should still win comfortably unless the stardom generated by the documentary series everyone is talking about goes to their heads. Graham Searles
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Aye. Because everybody knows we have the biggest set of vain bastards going ;-)
 
PrezIke said:
Nah! Watch it!

Immensely worth seeing how we responded to that! It was a dreadful moment for us, but seeing it gives one of the best bits to see insight into the character of everyone which I think provides hope over the long term.
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Episode 7 is indeed a tough watch but in many ways it is the best episode because it shows the real motivational tallent of Pep - that you only really see in defeat.
 
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deano ou812 said:
Fantastic look into the world of a football club,especially in the changing/locker room,two parts strangely stood out for me and they could be seen as negatives,the episode were pep and a couple of backroom staff in the changing rooms at Everton talking about Liverpool and how dangerous their attack is,for me that’s only transmitting your fear onto the players going into that game,then after the derby defeat in the changing room Delph pipes up about getting back to basics after conceding,telling he mentions “every time we concede we seem to freeze”.Just to small negatives in what was a brilliantly done series by Amazon,laughed my head off at Mendy running behind the physio when he was talking to the bloke about Mendy’s recovery,physio “he should start running by next week” psml...
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The players weren’t there when Pep was talking pre-Everton about the Liverpool attack, although i agree it was a part that stood out for me as it shows how Klopp has got inside Pep’s head - Pep saying “I think they will play Salah through the middle”.

With Delph, it just shows that he’s a bit gobby as you could see all the players (and Pep) thinking he’s a bit of a wanker when he wouldn’t shut up after the derby.
 
BlueAnorak said:
Episode 7 is indeed a tough watch but in many ways it is the best Episode because it shows the real motivational tallent of Pep - that you only really see in defeat.
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Exactly. And you see the raw emotions of the players too. It's absolutely the most insightful part, and I'm slightly surprised the media haven't focused on that more.
 
caseball said:
Whoever decided that Ben Kingsley was the man for the job needs to have a word with himself. Spoiled it for me with his boring actor's voice. Obviously reading a badly-written script but put some life in it, man. Would have been a suitable tone for a documentary about some disaster somewhere. Sort of like 'But that help would never arrive. For 38 games they played in vain the best football the world has ever seen only to find themselves relegated to the Championship again." His was the voice of a series called All for Nothing.
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The only other people that turned up for the job interview were Stuart Hall and Paddy Crerand.
 
Just out of interest: What do people think of Delph after his outbust after the united loss?

Personally I don't mind it, in fact I think he had a point. but because emotions and adrenaline were probably going mental because of what happened, and although imo understandable, led to bad timing (cutting over Pep and Kompany) and bad/confusing wording.
 
TheThirdDeano said:
Just out of interest: What do people think of Delph after his outbust after the united loss?

Personally I don't mind it, in fact I think he had a point. but because emotions and adrenaline were probably going mental because of what happened, and although imo understandable, led to bad timing (cutting over Pep and Kompany) and bad/confusing wording.
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I thought he came across as a typical English footballer "we've got to fucking run more", the sort of thing you hear up and down the country in Sunday league football. He was fantastic for us last year and bailed us out at left back but I don't think he has the intelligence to be a regular feature in a Pep team.
 
TheThirdDeano said:
Just out of interest: What do people think of Delph after his outbust after the united loss?

Personally I don't mind it, in fact I think he had a point. but because emotions and adrenaline were probably going mental because of what happened, and although imo understandable, led to bad timing (cutting over Pep and Kompany) and bad/confusing wording.
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Yeah I kind of got what he was saying, and I'd be shocked if things that like hadn't happened with other players over the course of the last 2 years. I think he was trying to say, that once United got their first goal we decided to shit ourselves instead of doing what we normally do (which he meant by the basics). When Pep cut back at him, he clearly became a bit flustered.
 
Wreckless Alec said:
I thought he came across as a typical English footballer "we've got to fucking run more", the sort of thing you hear up and down the country in Sunday league football. He was fantastic for us last year and bailed us out at left back but I don't think he has the intelligence to be a regular feature in a Pep team.
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I don't disagree with what you're saying, I just think that in this situation after the United game he had a point.
 
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tommo74 said:
Out of interest, who was the guy in 8 who's face was pixelated out in the dressing room?
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Faz Hussain, cheaffeur and protection for players and staff. Takes Khaldoon to every game in a Range Rover. Runs a company called Elite Limousine’s VIP. Has been associated with the club for years.
 
Cobwebcat said:
I can't see what Brian Kidd does? Seen 6/8
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Familiar face for the players, gives the youngsters bits of help and advice I’d imagine. Keeps the morale high and no doubt is always available for Pep to bounce ideas off if he doesn’t want to go to his trusted lieutenants
 
I've watched it all a 2nd time,i loved it,it was 10 month condensed down,it showed us what pep is all about without giving away all his secrets,how we reacted in victory and defeat,loads of good stuff about the players,there could always have been more but it was to appeal to more than us blue nutters in the UK,something i will watch again in the future for sure
 
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