All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur

Narrated by London’s own Tom Hardy, “Tottenham Hotspur: All or Nothing” tackles a chaotic season and turns it into revealing, dynamic television about a team reinventing itself amid more turmoil than it ever saw coming.

Actor Tom Hardy’s mannered, stilted narration is occasionally distracting. Even though Mourinho drops F-bombs like a tracksuited Gordon Ramsay, the overall effect is too corporate, polished and PR-friendly. We never truly get to know the players, rarely seeing them off-duty. The voices of fans are used sparingly, as background noise rather than part of the narrative.

While promising access to all areas, the makers of All or Nothing are like embedded war reporters. They are unreliable witnesses compromised by close association with the subject of the show and so they don’t get the real dirt or footage of proper meltdowns. Instead of hearing Pochettino’s side of the story, for instance, we get obliging PR footage of Serge Aurier playing footy with school kids and Jan Vertonghen working at a food bank.