We all remember those first few weeks of the Covid Pandemie, five years ago – would you believe that? – When many became the biggest fan of basketball and were addicted to the tests and tests of Michael Jordan et al in the last dance.
We remember the first or nothing documentary about Manchester City who brought us after the curtain of Pep Guardiola's dressing room in their 100-point season.
Or Mikel Arteta pumping fake -crowd noise in Arsenal -Training sessions, Jose Mourinho gives parte Alli in Tottenham Hotspur.
Then there was the Circus from Sunderland to 'I Die, an insightful view of management rooms at Elite or, as those docuseries seemed, Tinpot football clubs.
Welcome to Wrexham was entertaining, while the Sheffield United and Neil Warnock show in 2005 are still worth a look.
The list can continue and in fact that is the point.
Have football documentaries reached saturation point? Are there too many flies on the walls of these clubs?
The newest offer is the four -part series of Lorton Entertainment about Jurgen Klopp and his last months in Liverpool, which is being released today at Amazon Prime.
If you are a fan of Liverpool, you can enjoy it. It features some heart-warming scenes and Throwback images of the German nine-year term of the German in Anfield, where he transformed the team from 'Doubters in believers' to be declared target in his first press conference.
But if you are not an avid Reds supporter, this does not have that level of insight behind the scenes that a football documentary seizes.
There are no memorable scenes such as Danny Rose who confront Mourinho, or Guardiola who gives his team the hairdryer treatment when losing Wigan in the FA Cup, or Arteta -you will never walk alone by a speaker during training to prepare them for the Anfield mood.
Nothing goes beyond Warnock shouts: “That's a lot of B ******, you have to die for three points!” Or Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds gives goalkeeper Ben Foster a running hug after a last-minute punishment.
Or Charlie Methven from Sunderland who tells his communication manager to manufacture attendance figures and manager Chris Coleman almost a fan who confronts him after the club is banned to League One.
The Liverpool documentary is a nice watch-likely emotional for Reds fans to summarize the glorious era hardly the warts and everything behind the scenes that the entire football community would have let, not just those of a certain conviction.
It starts with a tense scene, to be honest. Klopp runs from his office flanked by Liverpool CEO Billy Hogan, agent Marc Kosicke and the club's head of communication. Because of the music it feels like the opening titles for a robbery film.
He then walks into the press conference and tells the local media why he leaves the club, often looks directly into the camera to address fans. The rest of the first episode is largely only archived images of games and Klopp's journey from Mainz and Borussia Dortmund to Liverpool.
The old images are warming up, but nothing we have never seen before. Some scenes are transparent, but it is not the striking kind you will hurry to talk to your friends this weekend in the pub.
The most revealing character in the series is not the invoiced protagonist Klopp, but his right hand Pep Libnders, who also left Liverpool to strive for his own career in management at Red Bull Salzburg, whose position has already left that position.
Multi-like coach Libnders is shown a detailed conversation with striker Darwin Nunez in an analysis room where the Uruguayan is told to train his hardest and not to get frustrated. Given recent developments from Slot that say similar, it is an intriguing scene.
Libnders also reveals that he had a 'confrontation' with Klopp about the right to immediately let Conor Bradley go back on loan to Bolton in 2022-23. He wanted to stay the Noord -Irish full back and, in retrospect again, who was remarkable to see how Bradley has now passed the first team.
There is a hilarious anger of Klopp when he was asked to talk about his feelings prior to a defeat of Merseyside Derby, in which the title of Liverpool took a final nail, “I have to go back to the F *** ING Everton -Game I tried to get out of my mind and tell you?”
The German also makes jokes about how many older he looks now compared to old photos, and says it feels like he is 500 years old, and there are also some one-liners about referees and legendary status.
This documentary focuses on a legend of football management, that is clear, even if Klopp would never admit it. An emotional, nice watch for Liverpool-fans but not the fly-on-the-wall, warts and all looking behind the curtain that many football followers crave these shows.
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