It’s little wonder no one watched our games. Ultras, on the other hand, is about the most committed of fans around the world. Taking in countries as diverse as Sweden, Indonesia and Argentina, director Ragnhild Ekner, herself a IFK Goteborg Ultra fan, offers up an explanation for such devotion as being an act of rebellion against both politics and socio-economics.

Those crazy Ultras ….. Its explored by looking at the different groups of Ultras and weaving in and out of this is the creation of a, ‘Tifo’, a huge fan created banner, with the Ultras making the biggest red flag since Meghan Markle approached the Royal family. Time consuming and labour intensive the Tifo’s are unfurled across the entire stand and several seen here are both inventive and brilliantly choreographed with one astonishing Tifo being a fruit machine with moving reels.

Narrated mostly by fans voiceovers there’s often a deeply personal reason for each of the Ultras commitment to the team – in one case it’s the death of a son who loved a team which then sees his mother join as a way of being close to her late son. Fiercely tribal but the documentary also mentions but quickly skips through the violence that football fans have garnered a reputation and one utterly horrifying episode in Egypt saw rival fans being stabbed and thrown to their death from the stands. But despite that, Ultras is very much a love letter to the most hardcore of fans and of course it runs just 90 minutes related feature : The ‘Saipan’ directors take us behind the scenes of their Ireland World Cup drama with Steve Coogan related feature : We take a look at the Danny Dyer football manager drama, ‘One Last Deal’…. Here’s the Ultras trailer…..