Ranked: The 10 best football documentaries
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Thom Gibbs Tue, 16 December 2025 at 6:29 am UTC·10 min read The concept of the sporting documentary has taken a beating in the past few years. Browse through whichever streaming platform you prefer and you will be confronted with oceans of slop, superficially plausible productions of thrown-together clips and sub-Wikipedia voiceovers. Alongside those are the big-budget assembly line sporting hagiographies, which purport to take you inside their subject but only ever paint them in a positive light.Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement The best documentaries include some element of journalism and a critical eye. It is no coincidence that many on this list deal not with glory but failure,...