I don't know if anyone else has been watching this but I've just finished the last episode.
It has some great episodes and some duff ones but it's worth a watch and captures the spirit of supporting a lower league club (although I have to say Ryan Reynolds has gone from being someone I found really funny to being really annoying; I'd always assumed the funny viral bits he does were a persona for the camera but he really seems to be like that - he's never "off" and it starts to grate a bit)
The penultimate episode was pretty much a filler episode and was going off on a proper witter about why men like sport and it had largely lost my attention. It then ended on a section about fathers and sons and how sport brings them together and it struck a chord with me. I know my dad got me into following the Cobblers and it's now "our thing" that we do together. I've got my own family now but beyond all the stresses of family and work and everything else, 3 o'clock on a Saturday is for time with my dad watching the Cobblers.
I know my wife doesn't get it, or why I get irritated if I have to miss a home game because as she sees it, I've been to loads of games and there will be another one in a week or so, but it's about so much more than watching a load of blokes kick a ball about for 90 minutes. My dad's pushing 87 and in his 75th year of following the Cobblers, and realistically you never know how many more Saturdays we'll have together, so win, lose or draw, every one of them counts.
I guess most of us were probably roped into the living hell that is being a Cobblers fan by our dads and I'm sure I'm not alone in perpetuating the cycle with my own kids.
That 15 minute segment of one episode managed to encapsulate quite what football means to me, so if you've been on either side of the father/son (or daughter) dynamic it's definitely worth a watch. It's probably worth forwarding through the first 15 minutes of psychobabble that precedes it though.
I watched this too, not seen the last episode yet, I really enjoy these looks behind the curtain type things. I also didn't realize just how crazy some of the transfers they have done were.
Hit the nail on the head with the father son stuff, my dad took me to my first game when I was teenytiny (Gainsborough Trinity away - I couldn't even tell you when it was, but I remember who we played ha), It's harder for me to pass it on to my son because I'm obviously a few 1000 miles away, but I'm doing my best to - he's 3 now and starting to watch the games with me - have overloaded him with kits, bibs, babygrows, towels and everything else I could get my hands on since he was born ha - so you're deff not alone in perpetuating.