When Eagles Dare: Crystal Palace F.C. (TV Series)
2021 · Documentary · 50 min. · United Kingdom
When Eagles Dare charts Crystal Palace F.C.'s remarkable resurgence from financial ruin and administration in 2010, to playing in the 2013 Championship Play-Offs for promotion to the Premier League. The docuseries tells the extraordinary tale of how Crystal Palace's fans saved their club, as lifelong supporter Steve Parish formed a consortium to prevent it from going out of business. Time was running out and liquidation loomed; but a mass protest of thousands of fellow fans outside Lloyds Bank helped the consortium finalise a deal to buy their beloved club. Each 50-minute episode features never-before-seen footage from the 2012/13 season, when the club allowed unprecedented access to a film crew, whilst present day retrospective interviews with all the main figures help tell the tale of one of football's greatest underdog stories. Interviewees include: The owner, Chairman Steve Parish, who found himself having to take over the club to save it from liquidation, and put up the money with ...
Direction Sean Webb
Cast Steve Parish · Wilfried Zaha · Ian Holloway · Stephen Browett · Kevin Day · Damien Delaney · Doc Brown · Chris Grierson · Scott Guyett · Mile Jedinak · Glenn Murray · Peter Ramage · Julián Speroni · Mark Steel · Joel Ward · Jonny Williams · Yannick Bolasie · Mark Bright · Dougie Freedman · Kevin Phillips
Screenplay Chris Grierson · Sean Webb · James Woodroof
Cinematography Sean Webb
Original title When Eagles Dare: Crystal Palace F.C.
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