While nothing replicates the drama of watching football live and feeling the ebb and flow of a game as its drama takes hold of your senses, a good documentary is as good a substitute as you're going to get in desperate times.
There has been an explosion in the behind the scenes sports film with everyone from Andy Murray to Pep Guardiola opening the previously closed doors of elite sport for all to see.
It can be a fascinating insight into a world we think we know well or a window into a story that is completely new to us. While the idea is not completely new and the watching the likes of Graham Taylor and John Sitton blowing their top been around for decades, there has been a raising of the bar the sophistication of sports docs.
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