The misadventures of three young football players Mattie, Jack and Benji, at a fictional Premier League club with terrifying team hard-man Petey, mercurial Italian manager Cesare and eccentric chairman Mark Crane.

Darren Hobbs, an entrepreneur, sneaks into a hotel conference room to conduct a careers day. Under the banner of his company: Unique Automation Consultants, he's searching for an engineer to help him complete his prototype, a device that enables warehouse owners to make their workforce, in Darren's words, semi-autonomous. Darren wants manual workers to be able to compete with the robots in the forthcoming automation revolution. Enter Phil Mathews, a hobbyist technology buff, trying to make a change in his career. This could be the start he needs, the job of his dreams. Things look promising; he's enamoured with Darren's pitch and lucrative job offer; until Darren unveils Eazy Guidance.

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.