How Beautiful Game Kicked Off

DS1ST DAILY STAR, Friday, March 20, 2020 21 HOW BEAUTIFUL GAME KICKED OFF TOUR: Comic Atack Passing of time Em: I’m 30 and selfsh EMILY Atack says she has started putting herself frst since turning 30. Te Inbetweeners star, who is preparing for her second comedy tour this autumn, said she had been “so scared” about reaching the milestone. Te actress and stand- up said she had written her new show for the “prosecco-drinking, cack- ling women that love the Kardashians and hen dos”. She said: “Te frst tour was about the woes and worries of turning 30. “Everything really does start to change at 30. “You start to make better decisions. TOFFS “Since I have hit 30 I fnd ■ HAVE A that I am making diferent BALL: Edward decisions. I am putting Holcroft leads myself frst more and being charge in The a bit more selfsh.” English Game Left, passions Couple in start to blaze legal con THERE’S a great bit near no crossbar. Te grass was over- big changes were coming, as the that Suter and Love were being A COUPLE defrauded so- the start of The English MIKE WARD PREVIEWS grown. “Tere weren’t any series reveals. A version of foot- paid to play was seen by the licitors out of more than Game, Netﬂix’s new foot- markings either, not even a cen- ball with actual passing had posh guys as particularly vulgar. £60,000 by infating trans- ball drama, where captain THE ENGLISH tre spot,” explains historical evolved up north. And Darwen But Kinnaird’s attitude, at lation costs for legal aid Fergus insists his side consultant Andy Mitchell. “And had controversially signed two least, would change. He’d come documents. must update their tactics. GAME there was no referee on the Scots from Partick who excelled to play a key role in football’s Alexandru Major, 35, “Two full-backs, three half- pitch, just a couple of umpires at it, Fergus Suter and James evolution. Also pivotal was and Babita Attra, 41, of Cat- backs,” he suggests to the boss, Game takes us back nearly a who’d fag if there was a foul.” Love (Kevin Guthrie and James James Walsh (Craig Parkinson), ford, London, were found “and we keep fve up top.” century and a half, to tell the Not that many fouls were Harkness). Tey’d soon have the Darwen’s mill owner. guilty of fraud at Inner As you can imagine, the boss story of how the modern profes- given back then because rough- tofs deeply rattled. “It’s an extraordinary story,” London Crown Court. is not convinced. His reply? “We sional game began to take ness was part and parcel of the “When you’re faced with says executive producer Rory He was jailed for three always play six up front.” shape. And, as you’ll see, it’s game, at least as played by the these large, well-fed southern Aitken. “And yet even people years and she got a sus- Te year is 1879, the side is come a long way. southern upper classes who gentlemen, you can’t go through deeply involved in football pended two-year term. Darwen FC, a team of Te ball back then could dominated it. them,” explains Andy. “But if don’t know it – the history of Lancashire mill workers, and weigh up to double what Te seemingly unstoppable you pass the ball, you can use their own sport.” CHIPS BEAT DOGS the football played is, well, a bit today’s does. Old Etonians, led by their talis- your skill to overcome that.” ●The English Game, a six- POLICE snifer dogs could diferent from the football we A side like Darwen would man Arthur Kinnaird (Edward Tese two diferent styles part drama, is on Netﬂix lose their jobs after scien- know now. take the feld in cut-of trousers Holcroft), knew no other way. of football summed up the from today. tists revealed a new micro- Created by Downton Abbey’s and boots they’d worn all day. “It was like rugby but without Victorian class divide, a theme Big Stream: Page 32 chip that allows robots to Julian Fellowes, Te English Te goals had no nets, often the handling,” says Andy. But throughout the show. Te fact Beautiful Game: StarSport distinguish between smells..

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