The Four Year Plan

What a good day for football. I watched Man U trash Wigan four–nil and watched a great documentary about Queens Park Rangers.

The Four Year Plan is a compelling doc' about QPR's purchase by four zillionaires and the team's ascension through the league. Bernie Eccelstone (if you know anything about cars you're familiar with him) is one of the financiers, and he's joined by a couple young Indians and Italians. The film shows a lot of behind the scenes aspects of managing a football club. It's pretty interesting and honestly pretty damn exciting. I don't give a fuck about QPR, but that's the magic of a good documentary. It makes you care about something or someone you had no prior feelings for.

There's clearly a clash when people run something like a sport as a business. But it IS a business. How do you balance passion with profiteering? It's a fucking tightrope with millions of pounds on the line. Definitely a love/hate thing happening here. But at the end of the day it's about results. It's about putting the ball in the back of the net even if that means going through half a dozen managers in one season!

It's pretty crazy to see how this all pans out. I'd say this film is a must-see for Le Matin. But I'd easily recommend it to anyone else, too. Stream it on Netflix. Good soundtrack to boot.