Wily Keane proves he’s far from yesterday’s man
That stable’s channels on this side of the world were running them back to back for us to gorge over the festive period, and gorge we did with some of the best sporting documentaries ever made. About the only downside was that it highlighted the paucity of programmes of that nature and calibre made on this side of the world.
Things seem to be changing. Here in Ireland there have been some fine sports documentaries made in the last couple of years, most notably by Motive TV. In Britain, they’re likewise waking up to what Bill Simmons and his colleagues Stateside did some time ago: people love sport and nostalgia and revisiting moments and characters big enough, recent enough (to have footage) yet long ago enough to revisit again.
