The English Game, a drama about football from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, will stream on Netflix UK later this month…

Julian Fellowes has developed a brand new series for Netflix, manifesting as six hour-long episodes. The English Game  explores how football in its early form crossed the class divide as it grew in popularity.

Take a look at the first trailer below…

The new series stars Edward Holcroft (Kingsman: The Golden Circle), Kevin Guthrie (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), Charlotte Hope (The Spanish Princess), Craig Parkinson (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), James Harkness (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Niamh Walsh (Jekyll & Hyde), Gerard Kearns (Shameless), Joncie Elmore (Downton Abbey), Sam Keeley (Anthropoid), Daniel Ings (The Crown), Kate Dickie (Prometheus), Henry Lloyd Hughes (Indian Summers), Kate Phillips (The Crown), Ben Batt (Captain America: The First Avenger), Sylvestra Le Touzel (The Death Of Stalin), Harry Michell (Chubby Funny) and Anthony Andrews (The King’s Speech).

A show about the early days of football’s popularity sounds like an interesting proposition. Given that the game has morphed into something very commercial and social-media-led in recent years, it’ll be nice to pop back to a time when things were a bit simpler!

The English Game arrives on Netflix UK on 20th March.