Two things i notes from episode 1. Firstly, it is way over-produced, like an undergraduate dissertation project in video editing. Secondly, none of Sunderland’s players seem to like one another very much. They seemed to retain too many of the jaundiced old pros from the failed premier league campaign the season before. Cattermole, Gibson, O’Shea all talk like bitter old men. Their real star turn is Lewis Grabban, who unfortunately is famously quite a mercurial personality.
Grayson seems commonsensical but utterly lacking in creativity.
I will probably enjoy the series although the stylised editing is going to fook me right off.
The other thing is that I never really identify with the portrayals of the north east in these things. I mean, Sunderland is seven miles from where I grew up but when people talk about it in this programme it feels like they’re describing a different world. The people I know in the NE don’t live lives of grinding economic hard luck, shambling among rusting dockyard cranes and investing all the small hope they have in a hopeless football club. No, not even the Newcastle fans. Everyone I know in the NE has a job; everyone everyone I know knows in the NE has a job. Anyway. The trope may have some truth left in it but it’s also an easy line for the lazy to trot out.
One other thing I didn’t expect (Series 1) was for Lee Cattermole to be so telegenic and charismatic. Stylish blonde hair, piercing blue eyes - camera loves him! Quite at odds with his on field persona.
You're a sheet club if you fail to get out of League 1 at the first attempt.
To illustrate how nobody cares, let me say this. The drop down from Prem to Champ is big but in the Champ you at least have a lot of Prem wannabes. The drop down from Champ to League 1 is bigger: pitches become very ropey; some teeny tiny grounds (but like really small); and the match officials are woeful.
All I'm saying is that the 2nd season commissioning is a joke, that's really all.
I know League 1 and it's well hard down there. Quality poor, as I maintain, but of course it's hard. Feel sorry for any club there. Heaven knows what League 2 is like crikey.
As a Barnsley supporter I can confirm that we did indeed boss it. How has McGeehan been for Pompey Rex? I always liked him but he seemed desperately low on confidence and the crowd were starting to get on his back after a bad few weeks at the start of the season
I had a seson ticket for Citeh in League 1. That season was a total battle. There was a spell in the autumn where we were truly dreadful. Andy Morrison and the Goat dragged us through and we got a miracle at Wembley
Charlie methven seems to have modelled himself on Piers Morgan - a poor leader who deludes himself and his boss that he is a good one by being aggressive and spouting bullshit - total dick - scary people still think this is the way to lead
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They just want relegation done! Get on with it ffs!
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Two things i notes from episode 1. Firstly, it is way over-produced, like an undergraduate dissertation project in video editing. Secondly, none of Sunderland’s players seem to like one another very much. They seemed to retain too many of the jaundiced old pros from the failed premier league campaign the season before. Cattermole, Gibson, O’Shea all talk like bitter old men. Their real star turn is Lewis Grabban, who unfortunately is famously quite a mercurial personality.
Grayson seems commonsensical but utterly lacking in creativity.
I will probably enjoy the series although the stylised editing is going to fook me right off.
The other thing is that I never really identify with the portrayals of the north east in these things. I mean, Sunderland is seven miles from where I grew up but when people talk about it in this programme it feels like they’re describing a different world. The people I know in the NE don’t live lives of grinding economic hard luck, shambling among rusting dockyard cranes and investing all the small hope they have in a hopeless football club. No, not even the Newcastle fans. Everyone I know in the NE has a job; everyone everyone I know knows in the NE has a job. Anyway. The trope may have some truth left in it but it’s also an easy line for the lazy to trot out.
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Commissioning a 2nd season of this is insane. Like who cares??
I can understand being interested in the Championship but League 1? Trust me, nobody gives a flying feck.
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Laz that's the first series. The second has just dropped.
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“Play up Pompey,
Pompey play up”
misspent youth at the Fratton End
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I have fond memories of a trip to Roker Park in the mid 90s. Shit ground but great fans.
Crap city, but there are one or two old Georgian Streets where you could be anywhere.
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Can’t wait for the Netflix series on the toons 2022/23 season when we win the league with mbappe as top scorer
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Phil - I’m watching it from the beginning m99 as I never saw series 1
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One other thing I didn’t expect (Series 1) was for Lee Cattermole to be so telegenic and charismatic. Stylish blonde hair, piercing blue eyes - camera loves him! Quite at odds with his on field persona.
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I don't want to ruin season 2 for anyone but... they didn't get promoted back to the Championship :(
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You're a sheet club if you fail to get out of League 1 at the first attempt.
To illustrate how nobody cares, let me say this. The drop down from Prem to Champ is big but in the Champ you at least have a lot of Prem wannabes. The drop down from Champ to League 1 is bigger: pitches become very ropey; some teeny tiny grounds (but like really small); and the match officials are woeful.
Again - nobody cares.
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Nope.
Club is a giant that when I was a kid were down and out actually (not the only time in my lifetime they were on the canvas).
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Neither (have over-egged the 'giant').
Look I know what I'm talking about I'm afraid.
All I'm saying is that the 2nd season commissioning is a joke, that's really all.
I know League 1 and it's well hard down there. Quality poor, as I maintain, but of course it's hard. Feel sorry for any club there. Heaven knows what League 2 is like crikey.
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Chelsea have never been in the 3rd tier btw.
awkwardly I do actually also know the 4th tier but that was a very long time ago now lol.
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As a Barnsley supporter I can confirm that we did indeed boss it. How has McGeehan been for Pompey Rex? I always liked him but he seemed desperately low on confidence and the crowd were starting to get on his back after a bad few weeks at the start of the season
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Even as a Boro fan I felt sorry for the poor fookers losing at Wembley.
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Quite a few ‘big’ teams in league one these days - Sunderland, Portsmouth, Oxford, Bolton, Coventry, Blackpool.
all must have majorly fvcked up somewhere along the way...
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+ Ipswich, obvs
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Oxford???
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Yes
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Oxford are dog sheet
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I had a seson ticket for Citeh in League 1. That season was a total battle. There was a spell in the autumn where we were truly dreadful. Andy Morrison and the Goat dragged us through and we got a miracle at Wembley
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Charlie Methven's a nice bloke, isn't he?
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Andy Morrison, now there was a real fat fooker, by football standards anyway
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Micky Quinn rolls in to compete in the human space hopper competition
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I've only seen so 1 of season 2 so far. The scene where Charlie suggests changing the music is pure Brent.
I look forward to finding out more about the chairman's wife.
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Charlie methven seems to have modelled himself on Piers Morgan - a poor leader who deludes himself and his boss that he is a good one by being aggressive and spouting bullshit - total dick - scary people still think this is the way to lead
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fook me. Watching this now. Feel for their fans - so much wrong at the top and with the playing staff
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I heard a rumour that the same company are doing a "Spurs till I die," not sure what's happened to that due to the lock-down.
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