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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

Chris Geere

Theo Barklem-Biggs

Yetunde Oduwole

Will Arnett

Tamla Kari

Paolo Sassanelli

Marvin Brown

Damon Beesley

Iain Morris

Sam Pinnell

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Bideford Productions Limited

Terry Cartwright Television Ltd

William Waterhouse

Neil Fitzmaurice

Talitha Stone

Philips Nortey

Tom Andrews

Lewis MacLeod

Tim Faraday

The First Team: Series 1: International Break

International Break

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Mattie, Benji and Jack hangout at Petey’s place. Cesare’s job as manager looks uncertain.

Petey insists that Mattie, Jack and Benji come to his barbecue. Meanwhile, Jack’s dad oversteps the mark with his online posts, and Cesare’s job as manager starts to look uncertain.

With the rest of the team away on international duties, Petey announces that he is hosting a barbecue. Mattie, Benji and Jack find themselves the only guests as a long, strange afternoon unfolds.

Meanwhile, Jack’s dad oversteps the mark by posting club business on social media, and Cesare’s job as manager looks uncertain. Have the fans turned against him? And what is Petey planning? Mattie seeks out the club chairman Mark Crane, but the meeting does not go quite as he expected.

The First Team: Series 1

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

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