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Fionn Davenport

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
97 total appearances

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The Claire Byrne Show
Saudi Arabia to stop funding LIV Golf next season

on his hands to try and sort out how do we make this viable from a business perspective.

The Claire Byrne Show
Saudi Arabia to stop funding LIV Golf next season

I'll give you one example.

The Claire Byrne Show
Saudi Arabia to stop funding LIV Golf next season

Scotty Scheffler, who's the number one player in the world, earned more money last year than the highest paid NFL quarterback given that NFL, that American football, is by far the most popular game in America.

The Claire Byrne Show
Saudi Arabia to stop funding LIV Golf next season

Something's not right with the maths.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

In terms of what makes a good sports documentary, ultimately is that I don't want to see athletes, I want to see people.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

I want that human side that Full Swing tried to do.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

I think you want to see flaws, relationships, pressure, ego, history, all of that stuff.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

Like otherwise you can't emotionally invest in someone.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

So that's it.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

I want to like and it can be love them or hate them, you know, but like I need to care about them one way or the other.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

And then almost as though the sport itself becomes secondary.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

although the sport or accomplishment or failure in that sport becomes the vehicle by which we kind of watch the human story unfold so you know obviously the best documentaries they make the consequences feel like absolutely laid them out on the table so what they're trying to win what they're trying to prove what they stand to lose so and it's not just like a match or a game or a league it's

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

It's all about like identity and livelihood, like a sense of legacy, belonging and like the best ones they folded in authentically.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

So it's not, you know, the kind of like like the sport documentary version of a reality TV show where it's like, oh, I'm singing this song because I'm.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

My aunt who helped raise me, she got sick when I was very young and tears.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

And that formula just feels now very formulaic.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

So it's about folding that connection to the humanness of somebody and folding that in without making it so overt or obvious or cynical.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

And then you want ultimately like a great sports documentary has a story that builds.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

So it's not just like a set of highlights.

OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball

So like you want a good narrative arc.