toheeb jimoh kola bokinni billy harris stephen manas david elsendoorn moe hashim moe jeudy lamour cristo fernandez and phil dunster better stay booked AND busy after this
So like a lot of viewers, I found the "Moe Bumbercatch is actually from Switzerland" backstory a bit of a curveball, but I remembered that in 99% of cases, the footballers' backstories have been based on the actors' (see: the Christmas episode where Higgins is listing off hometowns — those are the actors' real hometowns).
So I google-noodled around and lo and behold:
The second screengrab is about a short film that Hashim stars in called Going for Broke, which is about mental health in soccer and it sounds INCREDIBLE, I'm gonna see if I can find out where/if it's out anywhere. (Also the production company making it sounds very cool.)
Incidentally, not only was Hashim a pro footballer, but that dude is still going out and wrecking shit on the regular, I assume on some sort of local-league team.
Anyway, I thought that was really interesting and just one more bit of evidence that what I really want out of a spinoff is Moe Bumbercatch: The Series.