

Daniel Ings (The Crown, Lovesick) - Marindin.Kate Dickie ( Game of Thrones, Prometheus) - Aileen Suter.Joncie Elmore ( Downton Abbey, Shameless) - Ted Stokes.version of Shameless stars as the soccer player in The English Game. Niamh Walsh of Jamestown plays Martha Almond, a love interest for Suter who (historical spoiler alert) ended up becoming his wife when the pair married in 1883.Īnother member of the Darwen team is Tommy Marshall, who played outside-right for the team from 1878 to 1886. What's Coming to Netflix in March 2020?.'The English Game' on Netflix: The True Story Behind the Football Drama.'The English Game' Netflix Release Date, Cast, Trailer, Plot.In the Netflix show, she is brought to life by Charlotte Hope, who played Ramsey Bolton's Myranda for four seasons of Game of Thrones before joining the cast of Starz's The Spanish Princess. Mary Alma Kinnaird (known as Alma in The English Game) was the wife of Kinnaird, whom he married in 1875.

The actor who portrays him, Kevin Guthrie, has also appeared in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, Dunkirk and the 2018 season of The Terror. He is based on a real player who would become one of the sport's first professionals.

He is played by Edward Holcroft, who has developed a niche for posh boy roles in works like London Spy, the Kingsman franchise and Wolf Hall.Ī rival of Kinnaird is Fergus Suter, a player for working-class team Darwen who is accused of being paid to play the game-something that was against the rules at the time. One of the characters in The English Game based on a real person is Arthur Kinnaird, known as the "first lord of football" due to his aristocratic upbringing (he was the son of a Baron) and his talent for soccer, playing for Wanderers and Old Etonians, the team he plays for in the Netflix series. Gerald Kearns and Edward Holcroft in 'The English Game' Netflix
