This starts mid march and is a costume drama about the forming of the football league.

It could be of interest

https://youtu.be/hBOlhdSYhv8

In before some unfunny moron asks who's playing the part of a young CT.

Who’s playing the part of a young CT?

Di Caprio ?
Hanks ?
De Niro ?

Michael Le Vell...aka Kevin Webster ?

There was an article in the Sunday times last week about it. Looks like it’s cost a few Bob.
Trailer - Queen St mill featured???

For those who are interested in this, it is now available on Netflix.

Weird to see Blackburn playing in claret shirts in this.

Chim chiminey, Chim chiminey...

Thought it was excellent except for the last 10 mins !!! Not what I was expecting but non enjoyable. Watched all 6 episodes back to back during virus isolation

Story was watchable but the football was better in Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

interesting stuff about the earliest days, but the writing was atrocious, . hideous script trying to appeal to soap fans with the love lives and relationships. caught between two rotten woodworm ridden stools.

Not a true reflection of the actual events but interesting enough to realise it was a battle between good and evil.

Evil eventually triumphed.

Watched the full lot yesterday.
Even Mrs W enjoyed it even tough it was about football.

Looked like Pendle Hill in the background for one of their "training runs" and it also looked like one scene was filmed looking down onto Brierfield as a building looked very much like the old Smith & Nephew

finished watching it yesterday, I enjoyed it, warts and all

Quite a bit was filmed in Saltaire; exterior shots of the mill (Salts Mill), the row of shops on Victoria Road, Albert Terrace and Herbert Street. The train station was Keighley.

I'm two episodes in

Don't be putting up any spoilers...

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:23 pm

Don't be putting up any spoilers...

we win the league in 1920 + 1960

...oops sorry!

claretblue wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:35 pm

we win the league in 1920 + 1960

...oops sorry!

if you are going to post something silly then I'd at least suggest you get your facts right first.

Finished watching it last night - won't comment because of people still watching it

Mrs Darth's review:

"This programme seems to be blokes being lured into watching something about the origination of football but really its a spinoff for Downton Abbey"

Why on earth were Blackburn playing in Claret shirts?!

Anybody watched it yet. I was glued to it. Netflix Original 6 episodes. Er could be any North West Club... Don't let the fact that our friends down the road feature put you off!

Watched, really enjoyed.

Healeywoodclaret wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 01, 2020 6:57 pm

Anybody watched it yet. I was glued to it. Netflix Original 6 episodes. Er could be any North West Club... Don't let the fact that our friends down the road feature put you off!

The writers took the facts and got a bit creative with them.

Arthur Kinnaird actually played for Wanderers at the time this was set, playing for Old Etonians later. Fergie Suter played for Blackburn Rovers and actually followed Jimmy Love down to Darwen from Partick. The club featured is a mixture of Blackburn Olympic (played in the main match of the series and in Maroon jerseys in it) and Rovers (who Suter and Love played for and were paid by against the rules. They didn’t play for Olympic).

A great short series though and well worth a watch.

Watched all 6 on Netflix last night, very good series..well worth a watch.

Shame it was filmed in Yorkshire when it's about Lancashire clubs

I am sure some of the scenes are shot in Victoria Mill on Trafalgar Street.

Mostly halifax, Broughton Hall near Skipton and the worth valley railway

Shame about the ending.

Grumps wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:42 pm

Mostly halifax, Broughton Hall near Skipton and the worth valley railway

Fair bit in Saltaire as well.

There were set items (old carts and suchlike) in the streets when we were on a night out, last summer.

Wirvine wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:39 am

Shame about the ending.

But at least it wasn't Rovers.

Grumps wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 11, 2020 3:01 pm

Shame it was filmed in Yorkshire when it's about Lancashire clubs

When the scene was of them training, there at least was a clear view of Pendle.

From the Yorkshire side?

Wasn’t it Queen Street Mill that was used? I recall filming trucks up there last year.

I watched in the hope Rovers (it was a mixture of a Rovers and Olympic, I know) would be thrown out of the cup and liquidated for their shenanigans.

Claretforever wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:50 pm

Wasn’t it Queen Street Mill that was used? I recall filming trucks up there last year.

I watched in the hope Rovers (it was a mixture of a Rovers and Olympic, I know) would be thrown out of the cup and liquidated for their shenanigans.

Definitely Queen Street Mill - was mentioned (by mikes I think) on the previous thread about the programme.

Oops, sorry didnt see other thread

I've not seen this posted about. Just started watching it on Netflix and it is very good. Apart from the fact Blackburn feature in it, the story is about the origins of the game. It also tells of the social aspects surrounding the teams.

Searched and found:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=46670&p=1255221&hil ... e#p1255221 which is another duplicate together with this.

Original is here:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=45764&p=1224209&hil ... e#p1224209

You can search on the forum in advance view. Check the 'Topic titles only' bit to search by topic thread.

I'm sure mod will merge this when they get the chance

I actually did a search and it came up with all the posts containing the individual words, ie "the".
I gave up because it listed 357 posts

Someone may have already posted about this Netflix film/series but I have only just finished watching it. It is very good despite all the inaccuracies, the main one being that the star player Fergus Souter left Darwen to play for Blackburn Rovers but in the film the FA Cup final he featured in was Old Etonians v Blackburn Olympic. The scriptwriters decided to call his team just Blackburn!
The most interesting issue in the film is the rivalry between the public schools' Old Boys teams and the rising influence of northern/midlands clubs with their working class base and to the horror of all to the privately educated amateurs these clubs paid their players! Old Etonians, the Wanderers and Old Carthusians won many of the first few finals until the now defunct Blackburn Olympic took it north. These public school Old Boys teams still play in the Arthurian League where the values of the corinthian spirit live on. We always see the public schools as bastions of rugby but football was and is very important to many of these schools.
It is sad that the FA Cup has been so devalued in recent years and one wonders what these pioneers of the game in England would have made of today's game. It is definitely worth a watch despite it being mostly about Blackburn! Burnley do get a brief mention along with PNE.

So who finally played a young C T ?