JOHN PAUL: Craig!
CRAIG: Hey.
JOHN PAUL: I’ve just been to see Clare in the club. She wants me to start next Thursday.
CRAIG: Nice one, man.
JOHN PAUL: Oh…. which does mean I’ll be able to afford some cooler mates now. So see you around.
CRAIG: And to think I knew you when you were a nobody! (To Michaela who walks past.) What’s it like having a hot shot in the family?
MICHAELA: Great. Enough to make you wish you’d never been born!
CRAIG: What’s up with her?
JOHN PAUL: No idea. (They walk) Oh, I got them footy boots for you.
CRAIG: Ah. Right.
JOHN PAUL: I wasn’t sure you’d still be up for it.
CRAIG: I know I’m not the best. But it might be a laugh. Might even make me feel better about being back at school.
JOHN PAUL: Still, before you get carried away….
CRAIG: I know turning up doesn’t guarantee me a place in the team, but…. I’m looking forward to it.
JOHN PAUL: Great.
CRAIG: Hey.
JOHN PAUL: I’ve just been to see Clare in the club. She wants me to start next Thursday.
CRAIG: Nice one, man.
JOHN PAUL: Oh…. which does mean I’ll be able to afford some cooler mates now. So see you around.
CRAIG: And to think I knew you when you were a nobody! (To Michaela who walks past.) What’s it like having a hot shot in the family?
MICHAELA: Great. Enough to make you wish you’d never been born!
CRAIG: What’s up with her?
JOHN PAUL: No idea. (They walk) Oh, I got them footy boots for you.
CRAIG: Ah. Right.
JOHN PAUL: I wasn’t sure you’d still be up for it.
CRAIG: I know I’m not the best. But it might be a laugh. Might even make me feel better about being back at school.
JOHN PAUL: Still, before you get carried away….
CRAIG: I know turning up doesn’t guarantee me a place in the team, but…. I’m looking forward to it.
JOHN PAUL: Great.
INTERIOR – BOYS’ CHANGING ROOM (Craig is pulling his kit out of his bag and dismayed to see he has one yellow and one pink sock. John Paul, by his side on the bench, is amused.)
CRAIG: What?
JOHN PAUL: (laughing) Cute! Pick them yourself?
CRAIG: I can’t take the incompetence any longer. The woman keeps mixing me stuff up. I mean, what’s that? It’s not even mine.
JOHN PAUL: You’ve got two minutes! Then I want you all outside.
SONNY: Hey, Dean. You do know the cheerleader auditions are next door, right? Hi, JP.
CRAIG: Did you know he was going to be here?
JOHN PAUL: Yeh.
CRAIG: Then, why didn’t you say anything?
JOHN PAUL: You said yourself that you were looking forward to this. Maybe this is your chance to clear the air with him.
CRAIG: By what? Bonding over “the beautiful game”? The guy hates my guts.
GAMES TEACHER: Unless you’re talking tactics, then can I suggest you all zip it? Listen up, you ladies, before you all swap recipes. The season starts today. Anyone not prepared to give me 110% can leave now. Do I make myself clear?
ALL LADS: Yes, sir.
GAMES TEACHER: One minute. (To Sonny.) That kit’s seen better days.
SONNY: Yeh, I’m sorry, sir.
JOHN PAUL: You’ll be fine. Give it your best shot. (They sit shirtless side by side. John Paul looks over to a team-mate.) Hoggy, have you got any tape for your socks? (He goes over to Hoggy out of shot and Sonny leans in close to Craig.)
SONNY: I didn’t think this’d be your thing. Ah, I love it. Being part of the team. In it together. Worse thing, though, is if the guys don’t like someone, they make their life hell. Gets you thinking, they wish they weren’t even here. Do you know what I mean? See you out there. Oh, er, don’t forget your shin pads.
CRAIG: What?
JOHN PAUL: (laughing) Cute! Pick them yourself?
CRAIG: I can’t take the incompetence any longer. The woman keeps mixing me stuff up. I mean, what’s that? It’s not even mine.
JOHN PAUL: You’ve got two minutes! Then I want you all outside.
SONNY: Hey, Dean. You do know the cheerleader auditions are next door, right? Hi, JP.
CRAIG: Did you know he was going to be here?
JOHN PAUL: Yeh.
CRAIG: Then, why didn’t you say anything?
JOHN PAUL: You said yourself that you were looking forward to this. Maybe this is your chance to clear the air with him.
CRAIG: By what? Bonding over “the beautiful game”? The guy hates my guts.
GAMES TEACHER: Unless you’re talking tactics, then can I suggest you all zip it? Listen up, you ladies, before you all swap recipes. The season starts today. Anyone not prepared to give me 110% can leave now. Do I make myself clear?
ALL LADS: Yes, sir.
GAMES TEACHER: One minute. (To Sonny.) That kit’s seen better days.
SONNY: Yeh, I’m sorry, sir.
JOHN PAUL: You’ll be fine. Give it your best shot. (They sit shirtless side by side. John Paul looks over to a team-mate.) Hoggy, have you got any tape for your socks? (He goes over to Hoggy out of shot and Sonny leans in close to Craig.)
SONNY: I didn’t think this’d be your thing. Ah, I love it. Being part of the team. In it together. Worse thing, though, is if the guys don’t like someone, they make their life hell. Gets you thinking, they wish they weren’t even here. Do you know what I mean? See you out there. Oh, er, don’t forget your shin pads.
EXTERIOR – FOOTBALL PITCH
(Michaela and Amy come to watch the football tryouts and discuss boys and parents. Sonny knocks Craig over. John Paul tries to get Michaela to go home. Sonny crashes into Craig again. )
SONNY: (In Craig’s ear.) Do you ever get the feeling that you just don’t belong?
JOHN PAUL: Why are you letting him push you around like that?
CRAIG: Letting him? It’s not your leg he’s trying to break.
JOHN PAUL: So he’s hit you a few times? Hit him back!
CRAIG: All right, good advice. You should have let me know he was going to be here.
(Sonny and Michaela flirt. John Paul is not happy about this.)
JOHN PAUL: What is she doing? Hey! (He grabs her.)
MICHAELA: Get off!
JOHN PAUL: I thought I told you to go.
MICHAELA: I’m making conversation.
JOHN PAUL: When Michaela was four she had an imaginary friend called Princess Michaela. She cried when Steps split up.
SONNY: That’s cute!
MICHAELA: John Paul! (She pushes John Paul and storms off.)
JOHN PAUL: I thought you said you were gonna go easy on him.
SONNY: All I’m trying to do is make the team.
JOHN PAUL: Yeh, so’s he.
SONNY: I know he’s your mate and everything but I just don’t like him. He thinks he’s better than everyone else. He doesn’t fit in.
(Michaela and Amy come to watch the football tryouts and discuss boys and parents. Sonny knocks Craig over. John Paul tries to get Michaela to go home. Sonny crashes into Craig again. )
SONNY: (In Craig’s ear.) Do you ever get the feeling that you just don’t belong?
JOHN PAUL: Why are you letting him push you around like that?
CRAIG: Letting him? It’s not your leg he’s trying to break.
JOHN PAUL: So he’s hit you a few times? Hit him back!
CRAIG: All right, good advice. You should have let me know he was going to be here.
(Sonny and Michaela flirt. John Paul is not happy about this.)
JOHN PAUL: What is she doing? Hey! (He grabs her.)
MICHAELA: Get off!
JOHN PAUL: I thought I told you to go.
MICHAELA: I’m making conversation.
JOHN PAUL: When Michaela was four she had an imaginary friend called Princess Michaela. She cried when Steps split up.
SONNY: That’s cute!
MICHAELA: John Paul! (She pushes John Paul and storms off.)
JOHN PAUL: I thought you said you were gonna go easy on him.
SONNY: All I’m trying to do is make the team.
JOHN PAUL: Yeh, so’s he.
SONNY: I know he’s your mate and everything but I just don’t like him. He thinks he’s better than everyone else. He doesn’t fit in.
EXTERIOR – OUTSIDE THE CHANGING ROOMS(Michaela is waiting. John Paul is carrying in the marker cones from the tryouts.)
JOHN PAUL: Please tell me you’re not waiting here for Sonny.
MICHAELA: Not that it’s any of your business.
JOHN PAUL: Why is it always older lads?
MICHAELA: What’s it to you?
JOHN PAUL: Just go home.
MICHAELA: Do you mind if I don’t? Oh, John Paul, aren’t you so talented? Winning a poxy DJ competition! Blah, blah, blah. It does my head in.
JOHN PAUL: What do you want me to do? Turn the gig down?
MICHAELA: You’re just so perfect, aren’t you?
JOHN PAUL: What exactly is your problem?
MICHAELA: Beyond the fact that I could be invisible for anyone else who cares?
JOHN PAUL: So this is really all about you, then, yeh? There’s a shock.
MICHAELA: You haven’t a clue what it’s like.
JOHN PAUL: I’d swap places with you any day.
MICHAELA: Right. You get a job in a club and Mum wells up with pride. I get in when it’s still light outside, I get a smack round the head.
JOHN PAUL: None of which is my fault.
MICHAELA: No, it never is, is it, John Paul?
JOHN PAUL: Please tell me you’re not waiting here for Sonny.
MICHAELA: Not that it’s any of your business.
JOHN PAUL: Why is it always older lads?
MICHAELA: What’s it to you?
JOHN PAUL: Just go home.
MICHAELA: Do you mind if I don’t? Oh, John Paul, aren’t you so talented? Winning a poxy DJ competition! Blah, blah, blah. It does my head in.
JOHN PAUL: What do you want me to do? Turn the gig down?
MICHAELA: You’re just so perfect, aren’t you?
JOHN PAUL: What exactly is your problem?
MICHAELA: Beyond the fact that I could be invisible for anyone else who cares?
JOHN PAUL: So this is really all about you, then, yeh? There’s a shock.
MICHAELA: You haven’t a clue what it’s like.
JOHN PAUL: I’d swap places with you any day.
MICHAELA: Right. You get a job in a club and Mum wells up with pride. I get in when it’s still light outside, I get a smack round the head.
JOHN PAUL: None of which is my fault.
MICHAELA: No, it never is, is it, John Paul?
INTERIOR – CHANGING ROOMS
SONNY: If I don’t make the team, you’re dead.
CRAIG: You were hacking away at me throughout the game.
SONNY: Why did you have to ruin this for me, eh? The only thing that I can stick at school.
CRAIG: What are you doing here?
JOHN PAUL: Raby cancelled the trial.
SONNY: How’d he look?
JOHN PAUL: How’d you think?
SONNY: Man, this is your fault.
CRAIG: Just shut up.
SONNY: Come on, I’ll ask you again. Why are you even here? You do get that no-one likes you, right? And HE’S only your friend cos he feels sorry for you!
JOHN PAUL: Give it a rest, Sonny.
SONNY: No. I want him to know what everyone’s talking about behind his back. How he failed his exams. And he’s stuck here. Pathetic joke. What can you expect, given your family? (They start a vicious punch-up.) You’re dead!
GAMES TEACHER: That’s enough. That’s it! That’s enough!
SONNY: He’s a psycho.
GAMES TEACHER: You can sort it out with the Head in the morning.
SONNY: I ain’t done nothing wrong.
GAMES TEACHER: We’ll let Mrs Webster be the judge of that. Now get changed.
SONNY: Whose side do you think the Head’s gonna take? The kid whose Mum’s just died? Or the brother of the guy that killed her? (Craig’s lip is bleeding and he is in a state of despair.) And what are you looking at?
SONNY: If I don’t make the team, you’re dead.
CRAIG: You were hacking away at me throughout the game.
SONNY: Why did you have to ruin this for me, eh? The only thing that I can stick at school.
CRAIG: What are you doing here?
JOHN PAUL: Raby cancelled the trial.
SONNY: How’d he look?
JOHN PAUL: How’d you think?
SONNY: Man, this is your fault.
CRAIG: Just shut up.
SONNY: Come on, I’ll ask you again. Why are you even here? You do get that no-one likes you, right? And HE’S only your friend cos he feels sorry for you!
JOHN PAUL: Give it a rest, Sonny.
SONNY: No. I want him to know what everyone’s talking about behind his back. How he failed his exams. And he’s stuck here. Pathetic joke. What can you expect, given your family? (They start a vicious punch-up.) You’re dead!
GAMES TEACHER: That’s enough. That’s it! That’s enough!
SONNY: He’s a psycho.
GAMES TEACHER: You can sort it out with the Head in the morning.
SONNY: I ain’t done nothing wrong.
GAMES TEACHER: We’ll let Mrs Webster be the judge of that. Now get changed.
SONNY: Whose side do you think the Head’s gonna take? The kid whose Mum’s just died? Or the brother of the guy that killed her? (Craig’s lip is bleeding and he is in a state of despair.) And what are you looking at?
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