HARCHESTER UNITED WHERE THE DRAMA NEVER ENDED
FFT hails the cult classic loved by the real-life stars it portrayed
Terry Kiely knew things were getting silly when he approached the entrance of Soho hotspot Chinawhite in 2001, only to be greeted by a superfan. “Alright, Fletch?” said a smiling figure in the doorway, nudging his friend in the ribs.
Patrick Vieira and pal Robert Pires stopped short of asking Kiely for an autograph on that occasion, leaving Harchester United’s fabled forward to enjoy his night in peace.
“It was a weird feeling,” he tells FourFourTwo, nearly two decades on from the height of his fame playing Karl Fletcher in Sky One drama Dream Team. “There I am, waiting at the doors of a place like that – a pretend footballer being recognised by the real thing. Bizarre.”
But such was life as the leading character in a hit series which recorded 419 episodes until 2007, mourning 42 deaths following hostage situations, bombs, bribes, murder and enough extramarital affairs to make a Parisian blush.
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