- 96 pages
- English
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Fit and Proper People
About this book
Why does everyone steal from the twelfth man? Casey is back home. She's here to sort her club out and they have some problems to solve. The solution is obvious. Money. And Casey knows where to get it. Inspired by real footballing events, Fit and Proper People exposes dealings that manufacture our national heroes, asking serious questions about who is running our social and cultural institutions, and how they are doing it. Opened at Soho Theatre 7th October- 5th November 2011.
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All the major players are on the pitch. CASEY stands on the centre circle and is confident. FATIMA is substituted and on the bench.
(To us.)
CASEY: There are ten steps to living a more balanced life/
FRANK: And being on mission!
CASEY: I have my top five, printed on a card, kept in my pocket...
FRANK: Always!
CASEY: Being grateful, now thatās very/
FRANK: Important.
CASEY: Transforming your baggage/
TONY: (Aside.) Do we really have to listen to this/
CASEY: Smiling when you can...
TONY: Alright mate?
CASEY: Planning a clear route forward and/
MICHEL: Completing things (Beat.)
CASEY: So when I stepped back into my childhood football club, to/
TONY: Set the cat amongst the pigeons/
CASEY: I knew I was on course, I was well on mission and indeed on the road to leaving/
FRANK: My Legacy!
CASEY: So, there was lots and lots of footballing smoke and mirrors and mess, in a club...
JOEY: East London!
BILLY: Innit!
FRANK: Somewhere in the UK.
CASEY: Secure new ownership...
FRANK: Just call me Frankie!
CASEY: (Acknowledging TONY.) Metaphorically hoover it all up/
TONY: (Aside.) Cloughie loved a bung!
CASEY: Get out Anthony Whitechapel, the manager at/
TONY: (Aside.) sheās a fucking bitch...
CASEY: Try to save and reinvent a financially sinking ship and get our team and top striker!
BILLY: BILLY WILLIAMS BWAI!
JOEY: Scoring some fucking goals ...
CASEY: Our beautiful...increasingly dirty dirty game...of which as an agent/
TONY: She had made a shed load from...
CASEY: Needed the new me now, the entire industry/
JOEY: Made to look like a right bunch of...
CASEY: (Acknowledging JOEY.) The fans...
MICHEL: Who bought their satellite packages and kept Mr
Murdoch afloat for those first six years...
JOEY: We didnāt have much choice...
MICHEL: Always a choice...
CASEY: Were all desperate for a Casey/
FRANK: Layton!
CASEY: I was/
MICHEL: Someone on her side, someone both outside of this somewhat personal project/
CASEY: (Staring at MICHEL.) Yet easily...
FRANK: The club, less than an hour before the function where/
CASEY: My new plan was to be launched, as I sat in the/
TONY: Ok, so the room needed a lick of paint!
CASEY: Looking at the photos of the millionaire players in their Ikea frames...staring at the peeling magnolia walls...
FRANK: Casey!
CASEY: I decided on not having another frozen chicken drumstick, and my thoughts again turned to/
MICHEL: Michel Gbagbo!
CASEY: I hadnāt seen Michel for ages, for him being injured and without a club/
MICHEL: Without an agent/
CASEY: I could lure him in. I knew he had the potential to do what Teddy Sheringham had done for the Hammers, in his more mature years.
TONY: Bring him on for twenty minutes at the end!
MICHEL: āCome and join me in Londonā, followed by: āback in the Premiership next season darling?ā
CASEY: In football you are/
TONY: Only/
FRANK: Your game/
CASEY: Thatās the way it plays.
MICHEL: Michel texted back/
CASEY: Asking if I was still all about control. We had a few tense exchanges and he finished by sort of/
MICHEL: If you give a handshake to the leopard, next time he will come for an embrace. (Beat.) Why now Casey, really why now...
CASEY: I wanted my life to be very different; I wanted things to be out in the open, I craved...
TONY: Power!
MICHEL: My ex was scared.
TONY:
CASEY: I needed to save us from eventual receivership, that we could all finally go global. Frank Wong was now on board/
FRANK: Big big money was in!
CASEY: There was serious business to be done, final bloody/
TONY: Battles still to be won/
CASEY: And the money, the man helping me/
FRANK: If somebody asks me a question, I answer; if they donāt ask me a question, I donāt answer...
CASEY: Via a world renowned personal and business development guru, via Houston, via a billionairesā breakfast in New York.
MICHEL: Having some fun with his money?
FRANK: Show me clean money...anywhere in the world... show me fucking clean money!
TONY: Frank was well up for embracing the white proletariat consciousness/ speaking like/
JOEY: Me!
CASEY: It was September/
TONY: The transfer window had just closed/
FRANK: And they had already lost half of their opening games.
TONY: We were not promotion favourites, and as long as we could finish above West Ham, thatās all the fans wan...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editor
- Authorās note
- Characters
- Chapter