The SPORTS Documentary Thread

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Stable, The Boxing Game, 3 episodes in, very enjoyable. Behind the scenes with the McGuigans

 

[cactus jack]

Forget the name but there is a show on Netflix next week on the English fans at the Euros final and the shit that went on outside and storming the turnstiles

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Forget the name but there is a show on Netflix next week on the English fans at the Euros final and the shit that went on outside and storming the turnstiles

Watch The Final: Attack on Wembley | Netflix Official Site

With England finally in contention for a major championship, 6,000 ticketless football fans storm Wembley Stadium, leaving destruction in their wake.

www.netflix.com

 

[dukeroyale]

Stable, The Boxing Game, 3 episodes in, very enjoyable. Behind the scenes with the McGuigans

i watched one on oscar de la hoya on hbo a few weeks ago. the golden boy. a two parter.

probably give it 6/10

it looks like there was a lot of childhood trauma but they definitely glossed over the turbulent years in the second part.

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

99, three parter on Amazon. It’s about ManYou treble winning season. Okayish watch. Few interesting snippets that I hadn’t heard before. SAF resigned at the start of the season after Edwards warning him about his outside interests. He accepted his resignation only for SAF to retract it later.

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Watched Serena V The Umpire, I think it was made in 2019 but my first time seeing all credit to the Disney algorithm. Only 45 minutes so well worth a watch. I'm still torn on who was right tbh, but Serena and her followers saying it was racism and misogyny were ridiculous. Felt very sorry for Osaka though, the aftermath should have been about her winning.

 

[BlackpoolTerrier]

Watched Serena V The Umpire, I think it was made in 2019 but my first time seeing all credit to the Disney algorithm. Only 45 minutes so well worth a watch. I'm still torn on who was right tbh, but Serena and her followers saying it was racism and misogyny were ridiculous. Felt very sorry for Osaka though, the aftermath should have been about her winning.

Serena was always quick to play the racism and misogyny cards in the latter part of her career when her onetime awesome powers were fading. There's no doubt she experienced plenty of both during her time in tennis but a truly great athlete is no longer a great athlete when they start blaming stuff like that.

Personally, I felt sorry for her in her twilight years - she couldn't gracefully finish a wonderful career - couldn't enjoy the sendoff. Maybe her makeup and the fight she had to put up to get to the top meant that she could never graciously accept the inevitable in a classy way. She was bang out of order that night in 2018 and it was made even worse by her embarassing carry on with the press afterwards. I guarantee that every coach and psychologist she ever used had trained her not to lose her cool and her focus but she just couldn't help herself and once the cat was out of the bag, all hell broke loose.

In fairness, after a year out with injuries, her very last few matches and her run to the third round at the US Open were different. She seemed to enjoy the games and she played great tennis in that defeat to yer wan the Aussie before bowing out gracefully. The years of decline however, were not pleasant viewing.

 

[El Guapo]

A great player but was never a fan.

Her attitude stank.


Her meltdowns against Osaka and Clijsters were pathetic

Locking herself into a panic room to avoid a drug test was what killed it for me

 

[Meritocracy]

Didn't know where to put this, but this thread was easy to find.

Two colossuses in the media:

 

[dukeroyale]

jerry west just took his last layup. bill walton died only a few weeks ago. two basketball legends. best of enemies is a brilliant documentary on the celtics lakers rivalry