The show, depicting Liverpool’s preparations for the 2012-2013 Premier League season, ran for only one series, amounting to just six episodes.
Its subsequent cultural half life has been limited, too; those few elements which have lingered illustrate perfectly why it was not renewed.
It would emerge later, of course, that both incidents were a little more nuanced than first assumed.
The envelope trick had been adapted from a method once used — albeit with considerably more success — by Alex Ferguson.
The portrait had been a gift from a disability charity with which Rodgers had worked closely during his time at his previous club, Swansea.
Persons:
Marc Andreessen, ruefully, Brendan Rodgers, …, Rodgers, Alex Ferguson
Organizations:
maven, League
Locations:
Liverpool, Swansea