If you are at all familiar with the global game of football, and its most-watched league – the English Premier League – then you will be familiar with Manchester United. This poisonous little clown show of a football club hails from the North East of England.
It is most famous for having a brief spell of success under Sir Alex Ferguson before returning to their natural position as something of a joke, with ideas way above their station. This has been particularly hard for the barely literate simians who support the club, as they had come to believe that football only started in the 1990s, and they were somehow destined to be elite.
Having spent their entire modern existence toiling to knock their biggest rivals off their perch at the top of the English game, they have been crying salty tears for a while now as their rival then reclaimed their perch in just a few, short years. Meanwhile, they have been eclipsed in their own postcode grouping by a neighbouring team, so are no longer even the biggest club in Manchester.
So we expect the upcoming TV show about them from Lionsgate to be a comedy.
The New York Times reports that the series is in development. It will tell stories from across their history, and the rumor is that it will be like The Crown, in that it will treat the club as a dynasty. By which they probably mean the cheap-looking American knock-off soap opera that wasn’t as good as Dallas.
Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio has apparently had conversations about the project.
The final episodes of the show will no doubt be entertaining, as it will cover a period where they have had eleven different permanent and caretaker managers in 13 years, and still only gone backwards. Meanwhile, finances collapse to the point where they are sacking catering staff, and their stadium crumbles around them, even as they pay well over the odds for absolutely bang average players that their deluded fans declare “world class” before yet another season of failure.
Or, as all the other fans call it, the good times.
There is currently no release date for Banter Club: The Series, but the makers will shortly begin scouring the local zoos for chimps they can put in nappies full of porridge, to play their fans with the characteristic waddle.
