England, 1879. Football is an amateur sport, still in its infancy, and still only belongs to the rich. Indeed, no working-class team has ever reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, the English Football Cup. The Old Etonians team thus dominates the early years of the Cup, but a revolution is brewing: against the rules of the FA, the owner of the working-class club Darwen FC and its associated factory, secretly pays two talented Scottish players to join the team before the quarter-finals.
Footballers from opposing classes will then have to face professional and personal upheavals to change the game – and England – forever.
The English Game is a British historical sports miniseries directed by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) and broadcast on Netflix in 2020.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 by Allociné viewers, the six-part series has something to excite fans of the discipline and those less interested in it equally: and yes, even those who are not very interested in football will be carried away by its historical and epic side.
Because while its premise promises to tell the story of the birth of football as we know it today in England, the show goes much further in its subject, highlighting a captivating class struggle that ended up popularizing the di…
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