The English Game, the new football series on Netflix
About what football was in England in the late 1800s. It will be available from Friday 20 March
Sports
February 28th, 2020
February 28th, 2020
*** UPDATE ***
In the last hours, the official language trailer of the series has been published, launched exactly two weeks after the release of the series on the birth of football in England.
Netflix has announced the arrival of a TV series about football, entitled 'The English Game'. Apparently something completely different than the many products released recently, a period drama on the world of English football and its origins. The plot comes directly from the official Netflix website:
In late '800 England two players of different social classes made a friendship that would help transform football into a sport for the masses.
The series will be divided into 6 episodes, in which the whole story that led to the invention of the game that changed the world is developed, the social struggles that the creators had to face to complete a futuristic project for the time in which was born. We are in the 70s of the nineteenth century, in a historical period in which belonging to certain social classes was a privilege and only a minority was part of the elite of English football.
The English Game – written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes – charts the origins of football and how those involved reached across the class divide to establish the game as the world's most popular sport. Coming 20 March. pic.twitter.com/jb4fAP9MQ5
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) February 27, 2020
The series is based on an original screenplay and thanks to a top-level cast: on the one hand the screenplay by Julian Fellowes, the creator of successful TV series such as Downton Abbey, Belgravia and The Gilded Age; on the other the production of 42! which started filming in May 2019, naturally in the UK. The cast, on the other hand, sees the participation of: : Edward Holcroft (Kingsman, London Spy, L’altra Grace), Craig Parkinson (Line of Duty), Anthony Andrews (Il discorso de re), Kevin Guthrie (Animali fantastici- I crimini di Grindelwald), Ben Batt (Vera), Harry Michell (Yesterday), Charlotte Hope (Game of Thrones), Sam Keeley (Anthropoid), Kate Dickie (Prometheus) e Sylvestra Le Touzel (The Death of Stalin), James Harkness (The Victim), Niamh Walsh (Jamestown), Gerard Kearns (Shameless), Daniel Ings (The Crown), Henry Lloyd Hughes (The Inbetweeners), Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) e Joncie Elmore (Downton Abbey).
The English Game is only the latest, in chronological order, TV series that Netflix dedicates to the world of sport. Football, in particular, is one of the most cleared issues on the platform, with many TV series that treat football above all as a social phenomenon. This is the case of The English Game - the first series dedicated to the birth of football - but also of Ultras the film by Francesco Lettieri set in the epic of the ultras world and in particular to the reality of Naples which will also be available from March 20.
