South Of The River

South Of The River is a new docuseries on BT Sport that traces the meteoric rise of football talents from the region while taking an unflinching look at the social challenges surrounding them, including knife crime, gang culture, and funding cuts. Rio Ferdinand, a Champions League-winning captain raised on a Peckham council estate, serves as an executive producer. The three-part series features Premier League players drawn from London's most prosperous catchment area, but it's the raw, heartfelt testimonies of those aspiring to follow in their role models' footsteps that make it essential viewing. At its core is the tragic dichotomy between earning a contract and sliding into crime, a theme underscored by sobering statistics about the scale of the problem.