Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Beckham, Butt, Giggs, Neville, Neville and Scholes

The Class of '92 (2013)

Directed by Ben & Gabe Turner this documentary features contributes from footballers and non-footballers. We follow six players who came through the youth system at Manchester United at the same time and rose all the way to become champions of Europe together.

Mostly this documentary focuses on friendship and the bond between players who experienced something so unique together which does work fairly well but does come across as a pretty gentle narrative. Even as a United fan I found this a bit too celebratory and I really wanted more on the story of these players coming through the youth ranks as well as the players that did not make it. I could have done with out some of the non-football contributions such as Tony Blair trying to build some greater narrative about Britain of the time but this is still an enjoyable watch.


3/5

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