It's certainly lofty praise but well deserved when I say, this is the benchmark of what sports documentaries (and perhaps long form documentaries) should be. Having secured the ability to film this series the crew had a sandbox of practically infinite possibility with the behind the scenes aspect of football but generally speaking sports as a whole being completely isolated to the outside world who are only really aware of results in every capacity of that sense and major breaking news relating to topics such as injury, transfers etc. The chance to see day-to-day was incredible, especially at such an outfit as Manchester City. It does highlight the disparity between levels of English football as this is a monolithic institution with such high-tech facilities but equally is just as captivating to see how the peaks and troughs of the clubs season contributed in their triple digit success, as the episodes title infers, albeit in rather unsubtle fashion. This avoids the lot of death for sporting documentaries which is usually just a glorified highlight reel and actually gives character to a few of the key players and the manager himself, Pep who all chip in with their insight to how the clubs run and how the success came about. The approach to focus on these as individuals was a stroke of genius frankly and really drives the documentary onwards with such a smoothness not having to rely on the narration of Ben Kingsley and over use such a feature of the series. Covering an exceptional season and in such an insight it's really worth a watch if you can, see the highs, lows and know how of a revolutionary manager and a remarkable squad
Review of Centurions
