2024 sports documentaries: Man Utd's epic Treble triumph, Messi's Barca magic...

It's been another outstanding year for the sports documentary.

This increasingly-popular genre, which seeks to get under the skin of the athletes and sports teams we all revere, continues to make for superb entertainment.

In 2023, we had Netflix's series about the many ups and downs of David Beckham's football career - and private life - which won rave reviews.

Indeed, a survey of sports fans commissioned by Betfair recently put 'Beckham' straight in at No 1 on the list of the best sporting documentaries of all-time.

Amazon released an excellent film about snooker star Ronnie O'Sullivan, 'The Edge of Everything', that delved into the mental torment and extraordinary back story of this genius on the baize.

We've enjoyed the latest instalments of the fly-on-the-wall Break Point and Full Swing Netflix series showcasing top level tennis and golf respectively.

Cycling aficionados have been spoiled with the Mark Cavendish 'Never Enough' documentary, which was searingly honest, and the 'Tour de France: Unchained' series.

The survey mentioned well-known and critically acclaimed shows such as 'Senna', 'Welcome to Wrexham', 'Drive to Survive', 'The Last Dance' and 'Sunderland 'Til I Die' as fan favourites.

But given the enormous scope of sport, there's so much left to cover.

Betfair also asked British fans which sporting team they most wanted to see a documentary made about - and here's what they came back with.

Let's hope some of these get made in 2024.

The Beckham documentary only whetted the appetite here. A series re-telling the full story of Manchester United's unforgettable 1998-99 Treble season would surely be a smash hit.

Script-writers would genuinely struggle to come up with the comeback drama of the team that simply refused to