Man of Harveys
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Having just received my copy over here (thanks dad!) I've just sat through all three disks in one sitting, pausing only for toilet trips and to fetch SNACKS.
If anyone here hasn't seen this...well, I can't recommend it highly enough as it is magnificent. There's so much that's great but some things that stood out for me anyway:
The raw emotion on display. There's a few eyes turning a little dewy at the edges at times; you get great sense of how much it meant to them which is perhaps often kept hidden at the time, in a fairly macho environment.
No surprise maybe but I'd almost forgotten what a gang of tough little street urchins that first Micky Adams side was: heading to the pub from going swimming in the morning, or that about every match featured a mass brawl. We now know that approach was never going to work 10 years later but at the time...great fun. I think I felt so lucky to have a club at all in those early 2000s and then they were SO great and so chock-full of great characters like Cullip and Oatway.
Some of the players who'd entirely skipped my memory...Tony Rougier, Dirk Lehmann, even relatively recent ones like Livermore.
The whole Dean Wilkins sacking saga - still the single biggest mystery of the whole era really - still doesn't really get satisfactorily explained.
Anyway - absolutely unmissable. It made me really fancy a quick JD and coke with the clique in the Sportsman at 2.58pm before going out to get soaked while watching Torquay beat us in the 93rd minute. Brilliant.
If anyone here hasn't seen this...well, I can't recommend it highly enough as it is magnificent. There's so much that's great but some things that stood out for me anyway:
The raw emotion on display. There's a few eyes turning a little dewy at the edges at times; you get great sense of how much it meant to them which is perhaps often kept hidden at the time, in a fairly macho environment.
No surprise maybe but I'd almost forgotten what a gang of tough little street urchins that first Micky Adams side was: heading to the pub from going swimming in the morning, or that about every match featured a mass brawl. We now know that approach was never going to work 10 years later but at the time...great fun. I think I felt so lucky to have a club at all in those early 2000s and then they were SO great and so chock-full of great characters like Cullip and Oatway.
Some of the players who'd entirely skipped my memory...Tony Rougier, Dirk Lehmann, even relatively recent ones like Livermore.
The whole Dean Wilkins sacking saga - still the single biggest mystery of the whole era really - still doesn't really get satisfactorily explained.
Anyway - absolutely unmissable. It made me really fancy a quick JD and coke with the clique in the Sportsman at 2.58pm before going out to get soaked while watching Torquay beat us in the 93rd minute. Brilliant.
