Football documentaries are ten-a-penny these days (Welcome to Wrexham, All or Nothing, Sunderland 'Til I Die, etc.), but few highlight the strain of lower-league football like 'Dover and Out'. Directed by Gray Hughes for COPA90 and Dark Energy, the film centres on Dover Athletic—a National League South team that's been through the ringer more than once.
Covid-19, a points deduction, and a three-hundred-and-sixty day run without a victory all threatened the forty-year-old club's existence, but failed to push them over the White Cliffs into oblivion. What could have been a eulogy to the Whites becomes a tribute to, in the parlance of Iain Dowie, Dover Athletic's bouncebackability. For a taste of Football Manager on the highest difficulty (i.e. real life), check out this backs-to-the-wall trailer.
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