Football is a growing sport and is by far the most watched in the world, but with this comes the opportunity for a more violent, and hostile support from the proclaimed fans of the beautiful game, who look to cause trouble towards normal spectators...
Synopsis:
This new and fresh drama provides a strong bond between the viewer and the main character Billy, a young boy from Sheffield who's 12 years old. He lives with his mother and step-dad who are big supporters of their local football team Sheffield United. Billy is also a big football fan but struggles to choose between Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, as his father is a huge Sheffield Wednesday fan. In addition, Billy doesn't see his father very often but despite this, he still loves his father and loves to go out with him. The reason why Billy hasn't picked a team too support is because, when he's been to a United or Wednesday match, all he hears is abuse by other fans (including his father and step-dad) towards players, managers, and referees. He feels that this shouldn't happen and has refused to go to a match since.
Plot:
Its the day of the Steel City Derby and everyone in Sheffield is gripped by football fever! Except one boy. Billy still has failed to choose a team either Wednesday or United, and too persuade Billy, his father and step-dad have both bought him a ticket to go too Hillsborough to watch the game live. But...one is a United ticket and the other is a Wednesday ticket. Billy now is faced with a huge task, which team will he choose?
Billy then comes up with a very good plan. He e-mails Sheffield Wednesday asking them if he can make a speech at half time live on the middle of the Hillsborough pitch. Unfortunately they say no but Billy knows what he wants to do could change english football forever. Billy arrives at Hillsborough Stadium ready for the match. For the first half he enters the ground as a Sheffield United fan and sits in their side of the ground, as the verbal abuse towards players, the referee and the manager continues and gets very much out of hand. Chairs are ripped out and thrown around the Sheffield United end of the stadium. Billy had never seen hooliganism like it before. At half time, Billy runs onto the pitch takes the microphone from the announcers hand and shouts to grab the grounds attention. Billy makes his speech and tears are in the eyes of not just the crowd, not just the population of Sheffield, but the whole of England. He exits the pitch and takes his seat in the Sheffield Wednesday end of the ground ready for the second half, as a standing ovation greets him to his seat. For the rest of the match, the crowd behave themselves and occasionally, some healthy chants are sang by both teams. In the final scene Billy gets home to find his mother, step-dad and father sitting in the living room, and they all tell Billy how proud they are of him.
Characters:
Billy Palmer:
Billy is a young boy who is lost in the world of football due too the pressures that he has too face when going to watch football matches. He has fair skin, dark black hair, a skinny torso and is just under five feet tall. He doesn't have many friends but feels like an outcast in his family because all his father and step-dad care about is football. He struggles to find football fun and exciting because of all the violence and hooliganism surrounding the sport.
Carl Palmer (Billy's father):
Carl is a funny father that tries very hard to make Billy love football but struggles to make a strong connection with him, like a father and son should have. As Billy does not live with Carl, Carl struggles too see Billy and deep down, he really cares for Billy but struggles to show it towards Billy. He is a fairly skinny man in his mid forties, is around six foot two inch, with dark black hair like his son.
Paul Warhurst (Billy's Step-dad):
Paul is a very big headed man who loves football more than he loves his wife or his step-son. He has very little relationship with Billy but always pushes him towards supporting Sheffield United. This is one reason why Billy dislikes the idea of supporting only one team, and hating four or five others. Paul has a huge belly, a bald head, a thick Yorkshire action, is around five foot ten inch, and is in his late forties.
Sally Warhurst (Billy's mother):
Sally is a very good mother and always puts her son first in everything she does. Unlike Carl and Paul, she doesn't support a football club but she still enjoys football, just like Billy. She doesn't pressure her son into doing anything unlike her second husband Paul. She is in her early forties, has blonde hair, a slim body and is around five foot seven inch.
Why choose my idea?
I think that this idea is very unique. This is because, it is a subject that isn't often covered on television. It is not only about a boy that tries to help prevent football hooliganism to save the future of football, it is also about family relationships and some of the pressures faced by children, not just footballing families, but most British families.
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