Netflix series (starts 20th March) 'The English Game'

[davek]

FFS, Julien Fellowes drama about the birth of football in Victorian England.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-02-28/the-english-game-release/

You can imagine the utter tripe that'll be. I can feel me toes curling already.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I'm curious how they'll spin a rs triumph somewhere in the plot certainly.

 

[The binman chronicles]

FFS, Julien Fellowes drama about the birth of football in Victorian England.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-02-28/the-english-game-release/

You can imagine the utter tripe that'll be. I can feel me toes curling already.

The year was 1888 and northern powerhouses Manchester united and Liverpool had been battling each other for over 12 years in unofficial leagues.

However this year saw the creation of the football league and these two founding members and giants are about to go head to head for the biggest prize in sport.



Just like an American war movie.

 

[davek]

The year was 1888 and northern powerhouses Manchester united and Liverpool had been battling each other for over 12 years in unofficial leagues.

However this year saw the creation of the football league and these two founding members and giants are about to go head to head for the biggest prize in sport.



Just like an American war movie.

It'll probably describe Everton as "Young Boys Liverpool".

 

[RomanReigns]

My mate from primary school is in it

 

[tsubaki]

wtf Baines in makeup?

 

[davek]

I'm curious how they'll spin a rs triumph somewhere in the plot certainly.

John Houlding will be played by Brian Blessed and he'll say lines like: "Someday I will cast off these Everton chains and unleash a force I will call "Liverpool FC" on the face of the earth".....in a VERY LOUD voice.

 

[davek]

wtf Baines in makeup?

I told you it'd be crap.

 

[The binman chronicles]

It'll probably describe Everton as "Young Boys Liverpool".

Close, Everton are yet to be formed. They only come into existence in 1933 due to a benevolent RS director who noted that the poor people needed a team to watch.

 

[davek]

My mate from primary school is in it

What part does he play?

 

[tsubaki]

John Houlding will be played by Brian Blessed and he'll say lines like: "Someday I will cast off these Everton chains and unleash a force I will call "Liverpool FC" on the face of the earth".....in a VERY LOUD voice.

as long as he dies when Sian Phillips gives him some poisoned toffee, this would be acceptable

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

John Houlding will be played by Brian Blessed and he'll say lines like: "Someday I will cast off these Everton chains and unleash a force I will call "Liverpool FC" on the face of the earth".....in a VERY LOUD voice.

*sotto voice "...but no Catholics for another hundred years or so..."

 

[davek]

Close, Everton are yet to be formed. They only come into existence in 1933 due to a benevolent RS director who noted that the poor people needed a team to watch.

Ha Ha Ha.

 

[davek]

as long as he dies when Sian Phillips gives him some poisoned toffee, this would be acceptable

Ha Ha Ha. You watched I, Claudius years ago didn't you?

 

[davek]

*sotto voice "...but no Catholics for another hundred years or so..."

Houlding starts the new Liverpool FC's first AGM in the winter of 1892 with the words: "Someone throw another Fenian on the fire, it's absolutely brass monkeys in Liverpool tonight".