Glentoran: New BBC documentary goes behind the scenes at Irish Premiership club

Glentoran Football Club is one of the largest institutions in the Irish football league.

In a new documentary, ‘Dreams Of Glory: The Glentoran Story’, airing on BBC One NI and BBC iPlayer on August 28 at 22:40 BST, filmmakers Matthew Irvine and Matthew Wenlock take us on a fascinating look behind the scenes at the east Belfast club.

The documentary, filmed over three years, follows the club and their fans as they attempt to win the Irish Premiership trophy.

The reigns of managers Mick McDermott, Rodney McAree and Warren Feeney, as well as the start of current boss Declan Devine’s tenure, are all explored in the hour-long documentary.

“It’s very random how it came about,” co-director Wenlock told BBC Sport NI.

“We were filming another documentary at the time and we saw that Glentoran was starting to do well and we were following the football.

“At that point Glentoran hadn’t won the league for 13 years and we thought they could do it that year. We thought it would be really cool to capture that.

“So we contacted the media officer at Glentoran and had a cup of coffee and that started a line of communication that led to us being allowed to come in and document the season.”