'THE ENGLISH GAME'
NEW SHOW ARRIVES MARCH 20TH
Well, it seems, people, March will finally bring us long awaited period set delights, beside
Belgravia (March 15th) and
Letter for the King (March 20th), you will also enjoy
THE ENGLISH GAME which
Netflix will stream in all
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| New series The English Game streams from March 20th at Netflix |
its six episodes from March 20th as well. Like Belgravia, this new period set series also comes from
Julian Fellowes following the beginnings of soccer in Britain in the mid 19th century.
The English Game
will be a six part series set in the 1800s and will
describe how the world's most popular sport of football crossed class
lines and became a worldwide phenomenon despite its humble beginnings on
the pitch at London’s Limes Field!
Who Is On The Football Field?
The male part of the cast is exquisitely strong led by two of our dear hunks
Edward Holcroft (as Arthur Kinnaird – known as the ‘First Lord of
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| The mini series will air in six hourlong episodes |
Football’) and
Kevin Guthrie (as Fergus Suter from Glasgow, who is often considered the first recognised professional footballer) next to
Craig
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| Kevin Guthrie leads the cast as the Scottish football player Fergus Suter |
Parkinson, Ben Batt, Henry Lloyd Hughes, Gerard Kearns and Daniel Ings! Jamestown star
Niamh Walsh leads the female part of the cast
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| The Eaton team made of aristocrats lead by Ed Holcroft's Arthur Kinnaird |
alongside
Kate Phillips and, sadly, Charlotte Hope (who judging by the trailer, is as bad here as she was scandalously atrocious in the god-awful
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| Niamh Walsh returns to TV after Jamestown epic drama |
Spanish Princess). It is interesting that the actors who play the footballers trained at Trafford Training Centre in Carrington, the training ground of
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| Workers of a mill form their rival team lead by Kevin Guthrie's Fergus |
Manchester United. They had to play in the 1880s style that is different from the game today. Check out the beautiful trailer below and tell us what you think:
They did a fabulous job of setting up this series to really look like they used a time machine to travel to the past!
ReplyDeleteIt looks very realistic and great actors chosen for the football team.
DeleteClass warfare on the soccer field -- love it!
ReplyDeleteIt is similar to that Russian film I've presented recently on the beginnings of football in Russia.
DeleteI didn’t think this was one I’d be interested in, but what a trailer! Putting the haves and have nots against each other always makes for good storytelling.
ReplyDeleteI was also surprised by the quality of trailer, it looks it will be much more epic than we thought, I will be tuning in.
DeleteI really like football, so this seems pretty fun!
ReplyDeleteWatch it later this month!
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