With global soccer shut down these days, fans desperate for a fix of the beautiful game may find it from a rather unlikely source — the creator of the stately “Downton Abbey.” Julian Fellowes has created and co-written the new Netflix series “The English Game,” a six-part look at the origins of a onetime British gentleman’s game that has become the most popular sport on the planet.
The series begins Friday. “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,” Fellowes says.
The series is set in 1879 and focuses on the first full-time professional players and how they infused the game with new tactics and passing strategies.
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