All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur review – where is Mourinho's dirty laundry?

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Despite the promise of ‘access all areas’, the latest outing for the sports documentary series is as obligingly sanitised as ever

Not so long ago, football clubs were happy to lay themselves bare for TV cameras. The gold standard remains Channel 4’s 1995 documentary Orient: Club for a Fiver, in which Leyton Orient’s then manager, John Sitton, offered to fight two of his players in a peerless – if counterproductive – rant. “And you can pair up if you like and you can bring your fucking dinner,” he told them. “’Cos by the time I’ve finished with you, you’ll fucking need it.” Sitton is now a taxi driver. If you ever find yourself in his cab, tip him well if you know what’s good for you.

All or Nothing, by contrast, comes from our boringly sanitised era of sports documentary. We don’t get profiles of hopeless clubs on the fuzzy end of the footballing lollipop, but of plutocrats’ playthings – the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City, the Philadelphia Eagles and now Tottenham Hotspur. It is only a few miles from Orient’s humble Brisbane Road to Spurs’ new £1bn Tottenham Hotspur stadium, with its microbreweries and season tickets priced at up to £2,233, but they are light years apart in terms of cash.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/aug/31/all-or-nothing-tottenham-hotspur-review-where-is-mourinhos-dirty-laundry

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