"The First Team" Octopus Situation (TV Episode 2020) Poster

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(2020)

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Octopus Situation
Prismark1016 July 2020
The football players have a training session regarding sexual conduct. How to behave appropriately, avoid accusations of sexual misconduct and not to bring the football club into disrepute.

Apart from Mattie, the other footballers are not treating it seriously. Benji thinks being exposed in the newspapers as a sex pest is a badge of honour.

So it is well meaning and the enlightened Mattie who ends up in trouble with the club's Human Resources department relating to sexual harassment.

Being friendly to a woman in the supermarket leads her teenage schoolboy son accusing Benji, Jack and Mattie as sex pests. The son wants to train with the first team or else he will tell everyone on social media.

The trio just appear hapless at times. I am not sure this episode works or is that funny especially in the era of #MeToo. The misdirection about the son being involved in bullying at school failed.

It just needed to be written better given that the misbehaviour of footballers is such an easy target.

Ironically the footballers being told to be involved in more community engagement was overtaken by real life during the Coronavirus pandemic. Manchester United's Marcus Rashford managed to persuade the government to continue to provide poorer schoolchildren with free school vouchers.
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