![]() Their lives of intense training and a rigorous competition schedule are on full display, narrated with sober import by Ben Kingsley. In All or Nothing: Manchester City, we see photo shoots and press conferences and visits with youth clubs and, of course, interviews for the documentarians’ cameras. The job of the modern athlete has become more than just training and competing. They’ve since captured the seasons of two other NFL teams, the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys, as well as the University of Michigan’s football team and New Zealand’s national rugby team, the All Blacks. This is Amazon’s sixth season of All or Nothing, which launched in 2016 with a look at the Arizona Cardinals. But the demands of going deep into the other competitions-the FA Cup, the League Cup and, especially, the Champion’s League-provided a roller-coaster of emotions for everyone attached to the club, including fans.Īnd while it’s certainly Man City fans like me who were most likely to binge all eight episodes on the weekend of its release, the behind-the-scenes look at one of the biggest football clubs in the world will be both a fascinating learning experience and, increasingly, a model across all sports. Last season, Man City was nearly unstoppable, shattering one Premier League record after another. Led by arguably the best manager in the world-and one of the most entertaining-Pep Guardiola, in his second season with the club, the pressure on the players is enormous: to play quick-passing, high-pressing, always-attacking football without mistakes. The eight-episode season captures a team fighting for four different trophies and the emotional highs and lows that come with both winning and falling short. ![]() The result is the latest installment of the Amazon Prime original docuseries All or Nothing. At the beginning of the 2017-2018 English Premier League Season, Manchester City Football Club allowed a camera crew to film in their most private spaces-in pre-match strategy meetings inside the locker room during half-time talks and post-game celebrations in the homes and cars of players and in hospital as they dealt with injury after injury.
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