Cressida Bonas's ex Edward Holcroft slipped and injured his arm in a disaster while filming new football drama The English Game. 

The 31-year-old actor was spotted in a sling and receiving oxygen from a paramedic while Downtown Abbey's creator Julian Fellowes's Netflix series kicked off filming for the first time in Manchester on Monday.  

The English actor, who dated Prince Harry's ex in 2015, was forced to stop filming scenes of the football drama to tend to his injuries. 

Injuries: The 31-year-old actor was spotted in a sling and receiving oxygen from a paramedic while Downtown Abbey's creator Julian Fellowes' Netflix series kicked off filming for the first time in Manchester on Monday

Hurt: The 31-year-old actor was spotted in a sling and receiving oxygen from a paramedic while Downtown Abbey's creator Julian Fellowes' Netflix series kicked off filming for the first time in Manchester on Monday

Edward, who also starred in Kingsman, looked unrecognisable alongside Line of Duty star Craig Parkinson as they as they transformed into Victorian characters to film a football scene in a park. 

For the upcoming Netflix series, Cressida Bonas's ex Edward Holcroft and Line of Duty star Craig Parkinson looked unrecognisable as they transformed into Victorian characters in a park on Sunday.

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 Edward, who also starred in Kingsman, donned a traditional football strip for filming, including white trousers and a turquoise top as he sported a beard and moustache.

Meanwhile Craig, who played Matthew Cotton in Line Of Duty, sported a dapper period suit with a pocket watch. 

Disaster: The English actor, who dated Prince Harry's ex in 2015, was forced to stop filming scenes of the football drama to tend to his injuries

Accident: Edward, who also starred in Kingsman, looked unrecognisable alongside Line of Duty star Craig Parkinson as they as they transformed into Victorian characters to film a football scene in a park

Victorian: Cressida Bonas's ex Edward Holcroft (left) was pictured filming Julian Fellowes's Netflix football drama The English Game in Manchester on Sunday for the first time

He sported a handlebar moustache and ageing hair while throwing on a black quilted jacket to keep warm between scenes.

During filming, a park in Manchester was transformed into a Victorian football pitch which saw teammates kicking a leather ball. 

Hoards of spectators in the stands were dressed up in period costume, including top hats, fascinators and petticoats.

Smart: Craig, who played Matthew Cotton in Line Of Duty, (left) sported a dapper period suit with a pocket watch

Suave: Edward (right), who also starred in Kingsman, donned a traditional football strip for filming, including white trousers and a turquoise top as he sported a beard and moustache

Ex girlfriend: Cressida Bonas with Edward Holcroft at Wimbledon in 2015

Before and after: Craig, who starred in Line of Duty (left), wore a handlebar moustache and ageing hair while throwing on a black quilted jacket to keep warm between scenes (right)

The upcoming drama on the six part series, which follows the origins of football and will explore how the game 'reached over the class divide'.

The series will also star a host of English actors, including Charlotte Hope (Ramsay Bolton’s lover Myranda in Game of Thrones), Gerard Kearns (Shameless), Daniel Ings (The Crown), Henry Lloyd Hughes (The Inbetweeners), Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) and Joncie Elmore (Downton Abbey).

Only limited details have been released regarding casting. 

Bosses at Netflix said of the show: 'The six-part drama charts the origins of football.... How those involved in its creation reached across the class divide to establish the game as the world's most popular sport.'

Julian meanwhile: 'There’s this extraordinary anomaly that football, originally devised by public schoolboys at Eton, to be played by their own rules, becomes this game that dominates the world...

New drama: Edward, who also starred in Kingsman, donned a traditional football strip for filming, including white trousers and a turquoise top as he sported a beard and moustache

'As the game spread, it becomes less tenable that the Etonians could reserve football for themselves. The clubs that rise in the industrial Midlands and the North become the true representatives of the game.'

Edward Holcroft previously dated Prince Harry's ex Cressida Bonas, and the pair began dating in 2015.

But Cressida's family were reportedly snubbed her new love as they were hung up on Prince Harry. 

Kick about: During filming a park in Manchester was transformed into a Victorian football pitch which saw teammates kicking a leather ball

Football: The upcoming drama on the six part series, which follows the origins of football and will explore how the game 'reached over the class divide'

Mean while Craig Parkinson gained a cult following playing DI Matthew 'Dot' Cotton in Jed Mercurio's BBC Line of Duty.

He lives with wife Susan Lynch in Gloucestershire, and also starred in Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror full length feature. 

It comes as Julian Fellowes new show Belgravia is also in production which will come out on ITV.

The upcoming series will include scenes from several stunning Victorian locations, including London, Edinburgh, Bath and Northumberland.

While Downton Abbey's award-winning creative team will be reunited once again for the adaption of his novel, also called Belgravia, including Killing Eve's Colin Wratten producing.

Match: The stars of the upcoming Netflix drama were transformed into Victorian characters

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