Behind-the-scenes documentaries are common in sport, including football, where camera crews are given full access to document a period of time for a specific sports team. Three Premier League clubs have now teamed up with Amazon as part of the 'All or nothing' series, along with other teams all over the world.
Manchester City became the first English football team involved as their 2017/18 record-breaking season was made into a series shared on Amazon Prime. The footage offered an exclusive look into the dressing room, as well as the players' and managers' personal lives.
Liverpool featured in a small part of the series when they came up against the league winners on four occasions that season. Reports later in 2018 claimed the club had been approached over a series of their own, an offer that was swiftly turned down by manager Jurgen Klopp. But the small parts of each series surrounding City, Tottenham and Arsenal that featured the Reds, offered a glimpse at how the managers and players truly feel about Liverpool and what it's like to play against them.
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City's edition of 'All or nothing' was rather telling, despite their record-breaking title that year, the defeats to Liverpool in the league and Champions League arguably but a bit of a dampener on their campaign. It was the start of an ongoing rivalry between the two teams and Guardiola, on occasion, couldn't hide his fixation on beating them.
The first meeting at the Etihad in September 2017 was one to forget for Liverpool. Sadio Mane was sent off for a high-boot on goalkeeper Ederson and the hosts went on to demolish them 5-0. Anfield, however, was a completely different test for the league leaders.
Then, as the meeting at Anfield approached, full focus was on ensuring they walked away with all three points. "Liverpool have a good goalkeeper and a good team," Guardiola said in conversation with his backroom staff. "Their centre-backs... they have a good team. From the midfield onwards they are really strong, they're very attack-minded.
"(Adam) Lallana is good. (Mohamed) Salah, (Sadio) Mane and (Roberto) Firmino as well."
A member of his staff added: "Klopp is doing with Liverpool what he did at Dortmund. He had fix or six impressive players that drove forward from midfield."
Ahead of the game at Anfield, City were full of confidence as Fabian Delph led the talks in the dressing room pre-match. "We win this f***ing game eh," he said. "Three points, eh? Nothing f**ing less boys, three points."
The midfielder, who was filling in at left-back for the majority of the 2017/18 season, was forced to watch the rest of the game from the dressing room as he picked up an injury after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's opening strike. Winger Leroy Sane put the Citizens level before half-time, but by 70 minutes Liverpool led 4-1.
With 10 minutes left to play, Bernardo Silva pulled one back and Ilkay Gundogan scored another in stoppage time. But, it wasn't to be as Klopp's men ended their rivals unbeaten run in the league with a 4-3 victory. In the dressing room after the match, Guardiola attempted to lift his player's spirits insisting they 'showed character' and 'didn't give up' till the very end.
Next up, in a later episode, was the Champions League quarter-final between the two sides and with the first meeting at Anfield, it was the perfect opportunity for Klopp's side to make another statement. Salah sent the Kop into delirium early on before Oxlade-Chamberlain doubled their lead and Mane added a third. City, unable to respond, had it all to do in the second leg.
Kyle Walker said in an interview: "I've watched Liverpool many times and they're more dangerous when we've got the ball. They like to play on the counter-attack, Salah has been on fire this year."
In a meeting with his players after the game, Guardiola dissected the game. "We cannot deny that we lost 3-0," he said. "Sometimes we made fault or were not aggressive enough. It was so easy for Salah, it was so easy for the other ones. We have to improve and be aggressive all of the time.
"I'm not trying to convince you, because it was sh*t. What am I going to show you? For 27 minutes to 45 it was a disaster. But I understand, I was a football player. When this happens, it's like a knock-out. Sometimes it's complicated to keep your head in it."
As Guardiola's side prepared for the second-leg at the Etihad, Gundogan spoke of the games' importance while on the recovery table. He said: "Tomorrow is important. Maybe the most important day of the season. So... we need a little miracle."
Despite a glimmer of hope in the early stages of the game at the Etihad after Gabriel Jesus gave them an early lead, Salah and Firmino responded in the second-half to secure a 5-1 aggregate win and knock their opponents out of Europe.
Tottenham Hotspur became the next Premier League side to take part as all-access cameras documented their 2019/20 season. For the subject, it was a season of transition as Jose Mourinho took over from Mauricio Pochettino, but only managed to elevate them to a sixth-placed finish. For Liverpool, however, they ended their 30-year wait for a league title and, despite the adversity caused by the global pandemic, ended the season as winners and 18 points clear at the top of the table.
The Reds featured in the series just once as Tottenham prepared to welcome Klopp's side to their new stadium in January 2020, looking to upset their surge for the league title.
Mourinho said to his players before the game: "To play against Liverpool shouldn't be a normal thing. There are things in our career, in my case, I have moments in my career I don't forget, for good and bad. And when I have the opportunity to face these ghosts of my career, I just want to do it. You need to believe. You really need to be happy to play the game.
"You have to be very aggressive on the ball and stop shots. Look at the occupation of the box."
Unbeaten in the league, Liverpool kept momentum in the first-half as Firmino gave the Reds the lead heading into half-time. Fearing a heavy defeat, Mourinho needed to ensure his players kept their heads for the second-half.
During his team talk in the dressing room, the Portuguese manager told his team: "Don't be disappointed. In this game, there is no time to be disappointed. You lose the ball or lose the pass, you are frustrated and not happy with yourself because you made a mistake. The intensity of the game is very high, there is no space for disappointment during the game.
"It's important we don't lose our brain. If we lose our brain, we are f**ked. We need to keep our concentration on basic things. Very important."
While they didn't concede another, Spurs were unable to pull a goal back themselves and secure at least a point from the match. Liverpool took all three back to Merseyside and the surge continued.
Arsenal are the latest team to take part in the documentary. Under manager Mikel Arteta, they marginally missed out on a top-four finish last season. Every big moment of a rather turbulent campaign has recently been aired in the series, which landed on Amazon Prime this month.
Of all the managers, Arteta has arguably been the most open about his views on Liverpool and how difficult it is to go to Anfield and get a result. His emotional team talks and bizarre tactics to prepare his team for the trip to Merseyside exemplify just how much fear Klopp's side instil in their opponents.
Arteta said to his team in a meeting beforehand: "The most important thing with Anfield is that emotionally you are in top condition to compete there. And to do that, you have to know, what is Anfield. And it's, believe me, very different to any ground you have experienced in the Premier League.
"First of all, you have to go there and believe 'I go to Anfield and I am going to beat them and I'm going to win'. And I really believe that we are going to Anfield and we're going to beat them."
In training, the Arsenal boss used a bizarre tactic and brought speakers onto the training ground to prepare the players for the intense atmosphere in the ground. "One of my crazy ideas," he said. "Today they are going to train with You'll Never Walk Alone in the background."
Speaking of his own experiences at Anfield as a player, Arteta then added: "There's a word that we use in Spain in cycling when a cyclist is going up and looks amazing and in one kilometre he goes... Boom! It looks like he's stuck, it's a word, it's called 'pajara'.
"And I had it once at Anfield. The game was going there and suddenly I could only see red shirts flying around, the game is passing all over me and I cannot react. And people would think 'what is he doing?', and I am like 'I cannot do it'. I cannot do it emotionally, physically, I cannot cope, everything goes too fast. I only had that feeling once in my career and it was at Anfield.
"When the crowd is in that mood, they play every ball of that game with the team. And you can feel it."
Arteta then took a slightly different approach to his pre-match team talk in the dressing room before the game. Instead of looking at the tactical and technical elements of the game ahead, he gave an emotionally-driven speech to his players.
"In the last few days, maybe you saw me, and I put the music because on this pitch, I am a little bit emotional," he began. "I'm going to tell you why I'm emotional. When I had that (Arsenal) shirt and I was there, I came here. For a long time, we didn't win here but then we won two years in a row.
"The next year, I was prepared to come here and I was believing we could win. Do you know what happened? We started to lose the game. They were all over us and you know what I did myself? I hid and I gave up on the pitch. We lost 5-1 and I gave up.
"I never forgot for the rest of my career what I did here, I never did. Don't leave anything on that f***ing pitch because it'a a regret that I don't see. I let the team down and I let myself down, I don't want you to go through that. So, go out there, guys, and play with f***ing courage and be ourselves today on that pitch."
The speech didn't quite pay off, however, as Liverpool ran riot once again and walked away with a 4-0 victory over the Gunners. Mane, Diogo Jota, Salah and Takumi Minamino were among the goals.
The two sides met again later in the campaign in a two-legged semi-final in the Carabao Cup. A hard-fought 0-0 draw in the first leg at Anfield wasn't enough as the Reds came to the Emirates a week later and won 2-0. The second meeting in the league also ended in a 2-0 victory for Liverpool, with Jota and Firmino on the scoresheet.
Reports have emerged this week claiming City could be set for another Amazon-style documentary as camera crews are already following the team this season. While Amazon won't be behind this one, a report in the Daily Mail suggests former BBC producer John De Caux and Alex Cuschieri will be with the squad this term.
The Manchester club are yet to decide how the footage will be broadcast, but they have previously hosted docu-series on their own channels. Liverpool took part part in a mini-series themselves in 2012 titled 'Being: Liverpool', shortly after Brendan Rodgers was named as manager.
The club also released their own feature-length documentary 'The End of the Storm' after their Premier League title-winning campaign in 2019/20. The film was made available on DVD and also broadcast by Sky documentaries in 2021.
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