10 Best Football TV Series To Stream While The Season Is On Hiatus

10. The English Game

Available on: Netflix

Conveniently timed in being released just at the point in which real football has been taken from us, this dramatisation of the Victorian origins of the professional game compensates for the lack of football in the present by taking as way back into its past.

Coming from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, The English Game presents the conflict between former public school boys wanting to maintain an amateur game for gentlemen and Northern and Scottish working-class players recruited for pay.

The writing and characterisation is both broad in its stereotypes of nineteenth-century working and upper-class environments and a little too on the nose when making blunt points about Victorian values. It also takes some liberties with how early football was played and the real stories of the historical figures featured.

It does, however, provide the requisite scenes of people with fantastic moustaches in knitted jerseys chasing an enormously heavy thick leather ball.

So, if classic football is your thing, you can't really get more classic than the FA Cup in 1879.