Email: bobby.stevenson@btinternet.com
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Logline:
He’s the best British football player in a generation. The
next World Cup Finals is in a country that doesn’t want him because he’s gay.
Synopsis:
Lights, sweat, the noise of the crowd – one more goal
and England are through to the World Cup Finals. And he does it. Mark Oliver,
Abercrombie model, football god, one of the best in the world scores the winner
for England.
He’s also gay, but he’s not the first to come out. After
that bloke in Sweden did it, a drip became a trickle, and then a trickle became
a stream, albeit a small one. Mark did it casually in his book ‘A Brilliant
Life’; only turned twenty four and he’s writing his life story.
He was last year’s World Player of The Year but that was
another time.
Robbie is sixteen and every night when the family go to
bed he reads Oliver’s book - he keeps a secret too. Not even his best mate
knows, but the boy in the park who watches Robbie and his mates play football –
Robbie’s sure he knows.
‘Oliver’s Army’ are on the march to the World Cup Finals
being held in the Red Sea state of Mhuramba; most people had to look it up on
the map.
This small state of less than a
million people doesn’t even have a soccer team but they’ve landed the World
Cup.They don’t want a gay footballer player in their country. England aren’t planning
to go without him but he and the team have already had death threats.
Robbie is angry, he’d love to tell his family the way he
feels but he has to sit and listen to his brother and dad discussing Mark Oliver,
the fudge packer, queer, fruit yet
they both agree the team needs him. As his dad says, ‘God’s got a right sense
of humour son’.
If Mark hadn’t had to return to get his house keys he
would have been in the car when it exploded.
Now the rules have changed. His world has changed. He
isn’t going to accept this terror just because of “who he screws”. He said
those words to the Al-jeda reporter, the one who first told him of the Jihad.
There is a bounty on his head making the Team England security guys nervous
about Mark travelling. “It’s like we have George W playing striker”, they’d all
be targets. His team mates don’t want him to go, for his sake, for their sakes.
England asks Fifa to change their finals’ games to be
played outside of the country but too much has changed hands for that to
happen.
Mark watches the World Cup finals from a bar in England.
Passing outside is Robbie, a new generation of kid, walking with his arm around
the boy from the football park.
It’s coming, one day soon.
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