Ben Stokes Documentary On Prime TV

[mickd1961]

I love documentaries
Robbo, Shankley one and the three kings one is great, Warney one was outstanding, and I love to hear about what made these guys winners

Having had a lot of problems n issues in my life eg 10+ miscarriages, general family, money , life issues, unfairness, racism etc i get that life’s hard

But I don’t really need to hear whiny *******s, we all have issues n hard lives, I’m sure the likes of Stokes don’t have it too much harder than the average bloke

What I’m interested in is how they overcame it, n what makes these people different

There was zero whining from Stokes BS.

Sam Mendes had to literally drag stuff out of him.

If you look at Stokes during the one on one interview you see a bloke in a very dark place.

Add to the mix the background piece that came up about his mum’s former partner murdering their two small children three years before Ben was born.

This isn’t one of those “OMG” self pity pieces like Schofield’s “gay secret stress” type thing or how Katy Price is having a bad fingernail day and her world has turned to s h I t.......this is visceral.

Reading the papers at the weekend respected journalists in sport and in general were blown away at just how searing this documentary is.

I concur with them.