The English Game(2020)
Overview
Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.
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Top 10 Billed Cast
Fergus Suter
Arthur Kinnaird
Martha Almond
Margaret Alma Kinnaird
James Walsh
Jimmy Love
Cartwright
Alfred Lyttelton
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