Enjoyed MOTD tonight, debating the top 10 premier league captains. For me it's always interesting to hear the little stories of what went on behind the scenes.
This sounds like it should be decent. About the birth of football.
The English Game:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51574065
I haven't started it yet. Is there much actual football, or it is it mostly drama?
Utterly dreadful.Just watched this. More a period drama than a history lesson. Eton boys v Northern Scum. The main characters are based on real people but a pointless bit of fiction to finish off the story as they put the key players in a match that their team never played in, one from the same town but still not the right team and changed the scorers. Didn't really need to make that change as the story was fine if they stuck to the truth
Cheers Kenny. I had hoped for more based on the trailer.The football bits are nearly all games between Eton and Darwen & Blackburn (they seem to have merged Rovers and Olympic for this show) so there is a fair amount but the majority of story is based around the lives of one Eton chap (Arthur Kinnaird) and 2 Scottish players (Fergus Suter & James Love) that came down to Darwen and were paid to play. Its like they made Downtown Abbey but chucked some football in to get more men interested. Personally would have prefered them to focus on the football and how it went from the Gentlemans game to including the working class and eventually the pro game. Its still a decent watch but a little bit disapointing with the history rewrite and overall focus
Utterly dreadful.
We started Luther last night - the other half loves it but I've never seen it. 3 episodes in and it's awesome!
Never watched Luther, so might be the time to check it out. Is that on the iPlayer?
Not sure - we're watching it on Netflix.
It was definitely on iplayer, last I looked Netflix didn't have all the series but that has probably changed now.
I'm going to re-watch Stranger Things from the start, just finished The Pacific for the 2nd time. My other half won't watch The Wire with me which frankly is almost grounds for divorce...
Yeah I think its 4. They must have put the 4th one up in the last couple of months maybe.
I've watched Band of Brothers so many times I can recite most of the lines!
"Remember boys, flies spread diseases, so keep yours closed" is a particular favourite!