When Eagles Dare: Crystal Palace F.C. (TV Series)
- Original title
- When Eagles Dare: Crystal Palace F.C.
- Year
- 2021
- Running time
- 50 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary, Self: Steve Parish, Wilfried Zaha, Ian Holloway, Stephen Browett, Kevin Day, Damien Delaney, Doc Brown, Chris Grierson, Scott Guyett, Mile Jedinak, Glenn Murray, Peter Ramage, See 8 More
- Cinematography
- Producer
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Palace TV. Distributor: Amazon Prime Video
- Genre
- TV Series. Documentary | Soccer/Football
- Synopsis
- 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 ...
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