Wrexham Documentary

The painter/decorator has been the best bloke in it so far. Honest, down to earth, just sums up proper football fans at every level.

I’ve generally enjoyed this, but episode 10 is well off the mark. A very odd take on football violence with lots of stock footage that look to be from various international tournaments spanning about 30 years.

Not sure what the agenda is but it’s a very weird perspective on football in the National League.

Quoted from Poojah

Not sure what the agenda is but it’s a very weird perspective on football in the National League.

Not as weird as Scunthorpe’s current perspective of the National League.

Craning their necks like being at the rim end of a 69.

I think they nailed it and got it spot on.

Hooligan's are the cancer of football.

Quoted from TheRealJohnLewis

I think they nailed it and got it spot on.

Hooligan's are the cancer of football.

You thought that was an accurate representation of lower league football?

Quoted from Poojah

You thought that was an accurate representation of lower league football?

I thought it was an accurate representation of football in general. Obviously, it's a bit of a stretch to link Heysel and conference idiots.

Well that wanna be detective should be giving him the boot. That’s what I reckon.

Anyway..I enjoyed this series initially but it’s gone a bit weird since..episode 7 as an example. Seems Parkinson escaped the boot, and 2.3 mill wage budget..jeez.

Not long to go now til the fantastic finale.

It appears the documentary has carried on for a series 2 this season, saw today that Wrexham fans had been having ‘fan cams’ this season. Think I’ll give series 2 a miss.

That episode didn't sit comfortably with me. Miscellaneous footage spliced in, very simplistic takes on it all, some pretty offensive stuff about Heysel and then praise of Thatcher's approach with no mention of direct links to Hillsborough. I thought there was some really patronising shite about enabling the poor simpletons of Wrexham to improve their lot as well. First time I've thought that as a Wrexham fan I'd be pretty drunk off about it.

Quoted from Poojah

I’ve generally enjoyed this, but episode 10 is well off the mark. A very odd take on football violence with lots of stock footage that look to be from various international tournaments spanning about 30 years.

Not sure what the agenda is but it’s a very weird perspective on football in the National League.

Think that one was most obviously pitched at an American audience. There’s a weird interest in the issue from some quarters over there, you can see it in how popular that absolute pap Green Street film is with Americans. Attaching the issue to that couple to try and -humanise it didn’t really work, and the rest was all weird mish-mash of stock footage, police body-cam videos of people stood around and the view of an academic from the early 80s.

Very odd, waste of 25 mins that could’ve been better spent discussing Tozer who hasn’t appeared in the thing once yet, or some more Brent-style interjections from that Eton toff.

'He's such an idiot', 'I couldn't get my dream job because I'm with him', 'I can't trust what he's up to'......well, you chose him!  If he's such a millstone round your neck get rid.

I also thought that episode was pretty patronising to the people of Wrexham, but as a wider view they had to condense the entire topic of football violence into 25 minutes and present it in to an audience that doesn't know anything about it outside of watching green street 20 years ago.  

I actually thought the sack the gaffer episode was quite decent, no dressing it up that the position is under threat and showing the deliberations of whether to stick or twist etc, one of the more realistic episodes that shows the behind the scenes stuff we all want to see.