Dover & Out: The Team That Forgot How To Win



Losing is never fun. But in 2021, non-league club Dover Athletic went 364 days without tasting victory. Pushed to the limit by Covid …

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  1. My team when i was a kid was like this. Pinner town. We went 2 or 3 seasons without a win losing 99% of gamesWe drew a game 1-1 against a good team and half our team was in tears celbrating on the pitch at the end. The other team was like wtf lool

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  2. The problem is the young players, I’m sorry but we nearly got promoted few seasons ago when our following was big big. All players then were older , stronger and had a lot more drive. Until they start getting older players in who wanna strive to win. There just gonna get worser and worser. I hope jim or manager sees this comment and puts it into perspective so I can come back to the crabble and celebrate instead of wasting money getting beaten by St Albans or someone shit like that. SMH

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  3. Amazing story. Not enough has been produced on the incredible rort that happened with money during COVID. There are some people in the game who at a minimum should be out of it, if not in prison for misappropriating funds. The people who just look out for themselves when times are tough are the ones who burn things to the ground rather than create legacies. Well done to everyone involved in this club. The tough times may last a year, or many year but you have to keep going. As they said early, you don't want to be a Bury and have that community lose a key pillar of the towns identity.

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  4. Very nice story and documentary, however i dont understand the choice to include segments following their goalkeeping and really focusing on his TikTok career like even showing clips of him filming himself and making a tikok when he himself says that Tiktok is just on the side and his real passion and career is football. I also feel like that entire segment had absolutley nothing to do with Dover Athletic FC and the story this film is telliing.

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  5. Last season was shit. But we're still here. Better to be relegated and spend a few years rebuilding than going bust the same way Bury, Macclesfield and most likely Southend have. COYW!

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  6. Hess is well known mostly for taking Gillingham to the top 10 of Championship and playing in the sides that got to the play offs. His management is pretty no nonsense but his players just weren't performing. The points deduction didn't help but some of them looked like they have an ego and not fully putting their all into the team

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  7. This is why non-league football is the BEST! I'm American, but love English non=league football (my team is Weymouth), but it's amazing how these non league teams are able to survive with a payroll less than one Premier League player! But the players, fans, and communities get on, and there's a stronger community bond with these non league teams than with top tier teams.

    Funny comment by Dover's chairman about foreign owners not wanting to invest in a small club like Dover. I wish I had the money to invest in Weymouth. Non league football isn't about raking in tons of money – it's about the community! As for the Premier League – they have no problem sending young players to this level on loan for experience, but how about sending money to this level to improve the facilities?

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  8. Tick toker is a selfish plonker. George's [17] Mum definitely let him bunk off way too much & fronts him his pocket money at request, "Mum I'll buy you Mansion when Chelsea signs me – can I get a 100 pounds for the weekend?!". If yelling won games promotion would beckon loudly. Oh well.

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