10 Best Football Documentaries Of All Time

10. Orient: Club For A Fiver

Nature documentarians are much admired for their willingness to risk life capturing spectacular footage from some of the Earth's most precarious or inhospitable environments. Few, however, have showed as much courage as the student filmmakers at Open Media, who in 1995 placed their cameras in the volcanic furnace that was John Sitton's Leyton Orient dressing room.

The Channel 4 feature, Orient: Club for a Fiver, catches the O's in a tailspin, haemorrhaging funds after the Rwandan civil war causes the collapse of owner and lifelong fan Tony Wood's coffee empire. This scarcely credible setup is a footnote to the true story of the piece: manager Sitton's descent into despair, as he struggles to hold close the stitches.

The boss' astonishing, profanity-laden rants are the piece's highlight. After sacking club veteran Terry Howard - on camera - Sitton is shown laying into his underperforming, disobedient team at half-time, a goal down to Blackpool. Challenging two of his players to a fight, he tells them, "you can bring your f*cking dinner, 'cos by the time I've finished with you, you'll f*cking need it." The line has latterly became part of lower league football folklore.