'It was beautiful' - Prepare for tears as Marcelo Bielsa and Luke Ayling star in Leeds United's Take Us Home season two on Amazon Prime - Graham Smyth

The two-part documentary is a slick production that doesn’t particularly reveal anything new or unknown, but every Whites fan should watch it for the moments of genuine beauty that were captured and then brilliantly portrayed.

It was never going to be warts and all, these things rarely are for they rely on a huge amount of co-operation and involvement from the clubs, so it is more the story as Leeds United would like it to be remembered than a journalistic examination of the season.

There is no mention of Kiko Casilla’s racism charge, we see Eddie Nketiah joining but not leaving and Jean-Kevin Augustin is every bit the absentee he has now become.

The team’s mid-season slump is not glossed over but, other than Luke Ayling’s reflective look back on the raw interview he gave after the Nottingham Forest defeat, there’s no real fresh revelation of just how intense things got when, as Marcelo Bielsa famously said, a lack of faith in the team materialised – other than CEO Angus Kinnear’s opinion that the atmosphere was ‘toxic’.

There’s a lot of looking back, in interviews recorded after the fact, but The City Talking, the club and the world at large were contending with a global pandemic. Shots of an empty city centre and the thoughts of Leeds’ medical supremo Rob Price are a stark reminder of just how stunning and rude an interruption COVID was, when it locked us down.

Social distancing probably robbed us of a chance to hear from the lesser-known characters, like Pascal Struijk, whose state of mind when thrown in at the deep end late in the season would have been fascinating to explore.

It all starts with a heavy focus on the preparations for the season and on certain key figures, like Kalvin Phillips and his made-for-tv Granny, Val.

Luke Ayling is the star of the show, however.

His honest, self-effacing recollection of the moment he felt sure he had no chance of uprooting the flying Stuart Dallas from the right-back slot and his admission that he doesn’t know if he’s good enough for the Premier League give an insight into the humanity of mere mortals who have become legends. Hearing those words, days after he played brilliantly against Sadio Mane of Liverpool, is all-the-more satisfying.

The Hernandez family provide more humility, as does the man everyone wants to see.

Bielsa’s contribution is, as you would expect, minimal but oh so poignant.

“Leeds United is a very powerful social expression,” he said, of his decision to stay. “Belonging, for a second year, to an expression of this type, there are not many in the world like this.”

The width of his smile when Phillips seeks him out after the midfielder’s historic centenary-day winner against Birmingham, his delight at seeing Tony Mowbray and their effusive elbow bump, and his arrival at Elland Road when promotion was won are all wonderful moments.

His embrace with Phillips and the words that escaped his lips, words that revealed the overwhelming emotion attached to what they achieved together, will be clipped and replayed forever.

For all the talk of a distance between the head coach and his players, they lived last season together, fully emotionally invested in each other.

There are other scenes that will make you cry.

Be prepared for the beautiful, sensitive and artistic treatment of Norman Hunter’s tragic passing and the happy tears that will flow when regular fans are shown living and breathing every kick of the vital games leading up to glory.

An afternoon in the lounge of Andy McVeigh, affectionately known as the Burley Banksy, shows just how inextricably linked Leeds, football and family really are.

This documentary is a celebration of that glory and the footage that captures the release of 16 years of anguish, in the faces of supporters and the people who made it all happen, brings home just how significant a year this was for the city of Leeds.

It isn’t warts and all, but 2019/20 wasn’t about the warts, it was about a dream coming true. It was about vindication and a thumb in the eye to doubters and mockers. It was about the football and the collective realisation of just how good it can be.

“This is going to be a lovely memory for all my life. And it was beautiful.” Yes it was, Marcelo. You took Leeds home.