Wayne Rooney’s former club Plymouth have scrapped plans to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary about their season in the Championship after he was sacked this week.
Cameras had been following Plymouth since October and the Championship club hoped to sell the documentary to a streaming service such as Amazon or Netflix.
But filming stopped last month following a dismal run of results that ultimately led to Rooney being dismissed after a nine-game winless run, and there are no plans to resume filming and the project has been scrapped.
The Guardian report filming at the Plymouth training ground began in October and crew “were given access to only two Championship matches before being told to take a break”.
It is claimed Plymouth “decided during their winless run that it was in danger of becoming a distraction”.
Plymouth, who are bottom of the Championship, signed off on the documentary when it was announced in November but the project is said to have largely been driven by Rooney and his advisers.
Rooney has close links with the documentary’s production company, Lorton Entertainment, which produced Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story for Disney+.
The 39-year-old former England captain oversaw just four Championship wins and suffered 13 defeats in 23 Championship games after taking charge of Plymouth in May.
