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Comedy: Sitcoms

Comedy following three young footballers and their adventures.

Comedy following three young footballers Mattie, Jack and Benji, and their adventures with terrifying team hard-man Petey, mercurial Italian manager Cesare and eccentric chairman Mark Crane.

Series 1

Jake Short

Shaquille Ali-Yebuah

Jack McMullen

Will Arnett

Chris Geere

Theo Barklem-Biggs

Tamla Kari

Paolo Sassanelli

Sally Nugent

Jurgen Klopp

Jonathan Pearce

Gary Lineker

Marvin Brown

Greg McKenzie

George Potts

Bronte Terrell

Yetunde Oduwole

James Craze

Paul Biggin

Jason Williamson

Ossian Perret

Bobby Hirston

Jolyon Young

James Groom

T'jean Uter-Dinh

Tyler Crossinggum

Guy Rhys

Ali Iqbal

Damon Beesley

Iain Morris

Sam Pinnell

Fudge Park Productions Ltd

Bideford Productions Limited

Terry Cartwright Television Ltd

The First Team: Series 1: Selling Shirts

Selling Shirts

BBC Two - The First Team, Series 1, Selling Shirts

New signing Mattie arrives, but has eccentric chairman Mark Crane signed him by mistake?

New signing Mattie arrives, but has the chairman signed him by mistake?  Meanwhile, club hardman Petey takes a dislike to him, and a team-mate shares an embarrassing problem.

New signing Mattie Sullivan arrives at the club, but a meeting with eccentric chairman Mark Crane leads him to wonder if he has been signed by mistake. As if that wasn’t bad enough, club hardman Petey Brooks takes a dislike to him, and legendary Italian manager Cesare is nowhere to be found.   

Mattie strikes up a friendship with fellow team member Benji Achebe, who fancies himself as a ladies man despite the fact that he still lives at home with his mum. They both agree to help out the shy number 16, Jack Turner, in an attempt to solve an embarrassing problem.

The First Team: Series 1

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Three footballers cope with a mercurial manager and an eccentric chairman.

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