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When Eagles Dare: Crystal Palace F.C. (TV Series)

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When Eagles Dare: Crystal Palace F.C.
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50 min.
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United Kingdom United Kingdom
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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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