10 Best Football Documentaries Of All Time

9. An Impossible Job

Diego Marradona Documentary
Chrysalis Sport

From one end of the football pyramid to the other, An Impossible Job proves football really is a universal game, John Sitton's descent at the bottom of the (dinner) chain mirrored by Graham Taylor's in the country's top job.

Harry Kane and the Love Train heroics of 2018 might have temporarily sprinkled antidote around the rim of the poisoned chalice, but Gareth Southgate should watch this 1994 documentary for a stark reminder of just how enfeebling the England job inevitably is. Few get out reputation in tact.

The ex-Watford boss had no idea he was writing his own epitaph when he agreed to take part, an 18 month project ostensibly about him guiding the Three Lions to World Cup '94. Taylor hoped to demonstrate the unique differences between club and international management.

As England's campaign fell apart, the film instead chronicled his bitter downfall, no thanks to an evisceration by the pernicious sports media. Memorably, his infamous touchline exasperation, "Do I not like that", was caught on tape, helping turn a decent, respectable man into a national laughing stock.

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