The English Game

Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.

• Sam HoareWriter
• Julian FellowesWriter

• Kevin GuthrieFergus Suter
• Edward HolcroftArthur Kinnaird
• Niamh WalshMartha Almond
• Charlotte HopeMargaret Alma Kinnaird
• Craig ParkinsonJames Walsh
• James HarknessJimmy Love
• Ben BattCartwright
• Joncie ElmoreTed Stokes
• Gerard KearnsTommy Marshall
• Henry Lloyd-HughesAlfred Lyttelton
• Kerrie HayesDoris Platt
• Kate PhillipsLaura Lyttelton