These days streaming services are chock full of sports documentaries. You name any figure in the global sporting pantheon, chances are they have a 10 part special tucked away in some nook of the Netflix library.
Jaw dropping tales that showcase their unreal training regimes, insane facilities and unbending determination. Great television for sure, but the feats that seem to be commonplace in these documentaries are more fiction than fact for the majority of sportsmen and women around the world: humble weekend warriors.
The world is ready for a new kind of sporting documentary - one that really speaks to those of us not blessed with demi-god like atheltic abilities. Forget about the All Blacks and Real Madrids, it's time to shine a light on the lower league sports teams that week in and week out, bring their tale-...uh their enthusiasm to local parks around the world.
The storylines in lower league sport are honestly unparralleled:
Amongst a ragged group of hopefuls who turn up to trials, who will make the team? The stalwarts who've been propping up the clubroom bar for years or the young upstarts straight out of high school?
Will the team's performance improve or decline after pregame shots in the changing room?
Which player will throw an onfield tantrum and walk off the team?
What heinous act will force administrators to send out a league wide email this season?
Will someone finally defeat the ex-Olympic players in the team that have dominated the league for years?
Scandal. Drama. Hilarity. Tragedy. Redemption. Talent(?). Victory.
Lower league sports has it all. I can hear the Netflix executives pulling up already.
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