Last monday we brought you 5 sports documentaries that you had to watch. Hopefully you had time in your schedule to get to a few of them because now we have five more documentaries for you to take a look at to prepare you for the sporting weekend. You have the balls.ie guarantee that all of these will be worth your time.
Marooned
Here is part 1 of Marooned, which chronicles Paidi O'Se's quest to bring success to the Westmeath senior football team during his first season in 2004. The cameras give great access to Paidi's hair raising motivational speeches. Pay special attention to his talks after winning the Leinster Championship (SPOILER ALERT) and before the Leinster final replay. The latter has also been made into a great Any Given Sunday mashup.
The Best That Never Was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHBOyscexVE
The Best That Never Was tells the story of high school football behemoth Marcus Dupree and the manner in which he was recruited to play college football. Every college in the country wanted the running back and the footage of him from high school is jaw dropping. But as the film details, a series of bad decisions and bad luck meant he never got to fulfil his full potential.
The Impossible Job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW0ebsf7ZRs
The impossible job charts Graham Taylor's attempt to get England to the 1994 World Cup. This is the documentary that spawned the hilarious mockumentary Mike Basset England Manager and there are so many similarities. Taylor is shown to be out of his depth and surrounded by inept assistants but what the film really shows is just how much pressure comes with being the England manager.
Survive and Advance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8LWor0zrY
Survive and Advance is the story of basketball coach Jim Valvano and how he led his rank underdog NC State team to the national championship. The film is about the team's improbable title run but is as much about Valvano's battle with cancer, which he died of ten years ago. Valvano's tearjerking speech he makes at the ESPY's about living life to its fullest will have you reaching for the tissues.
Four Year Plan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOJ26jps7k
Four Year Plan goes behind the scenes at QPR as the club try to gain promotion from to the Premier League after being bought by that star studded F1 conglomorate in 2007. With Joe Kinnear being brought in to "save" Newcastle its interesting to see how another club went about making drastic changes to find success.
