Speaking about the premises of the series, actor Rory Aitken told RadioTimes: “The fact that the sort of social changes in Britain and the changes in football mirrored each other – well, that’s incredibly interesting.
“Because it’s notoriously hard to make any drama or films about sport, because you can see amazing, dramatic sports on television every weekend and pretty much every weekday now.
“So really, to see how it plays out in a dramatic context other than on the pitch is something that suddenly we realised could work on the screen as a TV drama.
“And Julian [Fellowes] is as much of a historian as a drama writer, and really understood that period and how to dramatise it.”
The English Game will be released on Netflix on Friday, March 20.
source: express.co.uk