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

[degsy]

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

This nailed on.
The rs will have probably just won the League, so they'll open with that... and all this - big panorama of the kop in full dirge mode, started from humble beginnings...*TV screen goes all wavy as we go back in time...

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

This nailed on.
The rs will have probably just won the League, so they'll open with that... and all this - big panorama of the kop in full dirge mode, started from humble beginnings...*TV screen goes all wavy as we go back in time...

May as well just start with Niasse passing it straight out of play against Leicester.
That's when football peaked for me.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Can’t wait to see how Man City invented the sport with their coal money owner and revolutionary inside-flyhalf-left centre system devised by their incredible manager who would go on to manage Barcelona when they were founded.

Or How Liverpool won 19 European trophies before most of Europe was even charted.

 

[McBain]

A Downton Abbey style football drama?

 

[longers]

will be awful like 95% of Netflix originals

 

[Mr. White]

Traditional English 'football', Atherstone style...

A 'Shrove Tuesday' tradition..apparently!

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Dave is positively avuncular in this thread! Amazing stuff!

 

[Blues Harp]

Julian Fellowes eh? Snob personified tory twunt.

 

[longers]

Trailer

 

[BlueStevie35]

Doesn’t look that bad tbh

 

[davmaher]

The English Game (TV Mini Series 2020) - IMDb

The English Game (TV Mini Series 2020) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

www.imdb.com

Looking at the cast of characters there, it looks like it'll be set in Blackburn / Darwen and underline the early 'class struggle' between those north west clubs and the old public school teams that dominated the very earliest years of the game.

I read an article about the programme over the weekend and you are correct. It tells the history of the early years of the game after the agreement on the first set of proper rules, at which point it was pretty much a game for the public schools in the south. The rise in popularity, particularly as you say in industrial Lancashire, led to a stand off between the upper class public school traditionalists and the working class pragmatists who wanted a move to a professional game. I think it was this Upstairs/Downstairs/Downton Abbey element that appealed to Fellowes. It sounds like an interesting series to me.

 

[davek]

I read an article about the programme over the weekend and you are correct. It tells the history of the early years of the game after the agreement on the first set of proper rules, at which point it was pretty much a game for the public schools in the south. The rise in popularity, particularly as you say in industrial Lancashire, led to a stand off between the upper class public school traditionalists and the working class pragmatists who wanted a move to a professional game. I think it was this Upstairs/Downstairs/Downton Abbey element that appealed to Fellowes. It sounds like an interesting series to me.

It's an interesting subject; and interesting series, though....?

 

[davek]

Trailer

I bet the Baines look-a-like ends up briefing the Darwen Gazette about the manager behind his back, and the Darwen fans hold up a banner with "Aye Ooop, He's One of us Common Folk".

 

[BlueStevie35]

I bet the Baines look-a-like ends up briefing the Darwen Gazette about the manager behind his back, and the Darwen fans hold up a banner with "Aye Ooop, He's One of us Common Folk".

You just won't let that one die will you? It was what 5 years ago? We've had 6 managers in either permanent or caretaker roles since

 

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