New Netflix drama The English Game shows class conflict in football's origins
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mirror.co.ukOne was the London-born son of a banker and peer, the other a stonemason from the suburbs of Glasgow. Normally they would not have met – but their lives crossed as both propelled football into the global sport it is today.
Their tales are told in a new TV series The English Game. The six-parter, by Downton creator Julian Fellowes and launched on Netflix this Friday, dramatises the rise of the top pioneers behind football’s explosion in popularity during the 1800s.
They include Etonian all-rounder Arthur Kinnaird, who helped form the Football Association, and Glaswegian mason Fergus Suter, the first man who was paid to play the game.
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