The Documentary Thread

[tom27111]

57 minutes ago, CollinsLCFC said:

That's quite a story!

 

Actually might look into this .

 

I'm intrigued to know, what happened after that, obviously the Boss would still want to see him play, and how it all ended.

 

 

Honestly true. Google 'Carlos Kaiser'.

 

Not a massive amount of info, but one hell of a story.

 

Looking forward to the documentary. Think there's also a movie planned.

[tom27111]

1 hour ago, CollinsLCFC said:

That's quite a story!

 

Actually might look into this .

 

I'm intrigued to know, what happened after that, obviously the Boss would still want to see him play, and how it all ended.

 

 

It was in the 80's, before the Internet. 

 

Apparently he once had a toy mobile phone and was talking in English to a big team, to keep up the charade.

 

The physio overheard him. The physio was fluent in English and rumbled him, because his English was gibberish 

 

That's how he left one team!

[Sambiasso]

Stumbled across this on Amazon Prime, really is car crash TV

Edited 27 July 2017 by Sambiasso

[tom27111]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(

[Buce]

7 hours ago, tom27111 said:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(

 

There was a decent article in the Grauniad about three months ago.

 

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/apr/26/the-forgotten-story-of-carlos-kaiser-footballs-greatest-conman

 

 

Edited 28 July 2017 by Buce

[MC Prussian]

Bringing back the Madoff Scandal:

 

[MC Prussian]

Watching the 1973 Hendrickson/Merrick documentary on the Manson Family.

Just feel sad for all these young people - especially girls - who fell for Manson in the aftermath of the Summer of Love. Paul Watkins comes out as the only one with any sympathy from me, because he could see the danger and left before it was too late. Shame he died from leukemia in 1990.

 

Hideous beliefs, mislead loyalty. They loved killing as much as they loved group sex and went on to tarnish the Hippie movement forever.

[MC Prussian]

Oh, and the New York Times have some fantastic short docs on YouTube.

[ozleicester]

May have posted this before, but worth a rewatch anyway....

 

 

[Ozwin]

Any decent documentaries in the last year or so?

[ajthefox]

Watched these two on Netflix recently. Culture high is great, minimalism is decent but found it mostly telling me stuff I was already aware of.

 

 

 

[ozleicester]

Open mind...

 

 

[ozleicester]

Amazingly Boring.. BUT! the story is incredible.... Do you remember the virus "Stuxnet"?

 

It was created and transmitted by the US Government.. acknowledged accepted and proved.  if you are worried about terrorism...forget it, this is what you need to fear

 

[ozleicester]

Just watched Gimme Shelter again.

 

For those who dont know its the doco of the Altamont Raceway Rolling Stones gig... murder mayhem and quite an amazing watch. (its free on Vimeo and Youtube etc)