Season 9 Episode 22 Episode 378 Sky One Transmission Date: Sunday 19th March 2006 Directed By Riita Leena-Lynn

George MacKay, Maloin Cass, Ryan, Jodie Carter, Gavin She killed football, but Alex loves her. Not a bad day for Lynda! Scarlett won’t be wooed by Cass… or Eugene

GS: Asa Maloin (Christian Pederson) George Fuller (Ben Nealon) Jessica Hibbs (V/O) (Sam Grey)  Anthony Gardner (as himself) As the crowd is left waiting for the two teams to come out, Lynda learns the insurers are refusing to cover their players if another injury occurs. Tottenham's Chief Executive agrees with the insurers, and asks Lynda what she was expecting by getting Hector to sue Maloin. The ref declares the match to be abandoned. Cass finds Eugene worked up after receiving a message from Jessica. She tells him to give her some time and then they can discuss when he can see Lucy again. In the boardroom, the group watch as more and more Premiership matches are called off. When UEFA announce they are to hold an emergency meeting at their headquarters, the room knows the blame will be placed firmly at Harchester's door. George speaks to UEFA, and gives Lynda the news they will only provide cover for accidental injuries, meaning Harchester has to drop it's lawsuit against Maloin, and Liam must receive a lifetime ban from football! Lynda refuses but George insists as the rescheduled matches could cut into England's World Cup preparations causing more blame for Harchester if they exit early. Liam's ban is official and he arrives at the club to say his goodbyes, and holds a press conference with Lynda. He admits if he could go back he wouldn't do anything different, and makes an appeal to a guilty Chloe for she to forgive him for his recent behaviour. Asa goes to see Liam at his house, where Liam is in a state over the end of his career. Asa has to admit he respects Liam’s honesty over the whole thing. Ashleigh tells Casper she wants to be wooed by him, and requests he perform the crossbar challenge Ronaldinho did in his commercial. Casper knows this is highly improbable but goes and fetches Ryan, Gavin and Jodie Carter to help him out. Gavin barges into Lynda's office where he tells her what the club has done to Liam is wrong. Deep down Lynda knows he is right. Ryan and Carter soon get fed up and leave Casper to his mission. Casper arrives to find Eugene smashing up his living room with a metal baton, and Scarlett tells of how Jessica and her husband are refusing to take Eugene's calls. He has also received a fax from the FFA, who aren’t interested in him playing for them. It was all a stunt by the TV people. Lynda confides in Alex how she went on Sky Sports to get back at Chloe, for sleeping with him. Alex tells her this is his fault, and admits it was he who went to the police thus starting the investigation. He tells Lynda it wasn't about Chloe - Lynda is the one he's in love with. Lynda is stunned and orders Alex out of her office! Lynda tells Chloe this is all down to them - she, Alex and herself, and Liam has been left paying the price. They notice Asa speaking on TV, and surprisingly defends Liam, saying it was the nature of the game why he has ended up like this. Asa also admits his own truth; that he did intend to hurt Hector, but only to let him know that he was there, and if UEFA are banning Liam for what he did, they shouldn't because he is just as guilty as Liam. Lynda and George hold a meeting where she tells Liam she is offering him his career back. George says they will begin by threatening UEFA with the courts, and Liam asks Lynda why she is doing this. Lynda responds that she couldn't live with herself if she didn't. On the training pitch, Casper manages to hit the crossbar twice in front of Ashleigh, and is ecstatic. Cass finds Scarlett waiting for him, where she reveals she is going to leave, as when Jessica showed up with Lucy, she didn't feel at all threatened by the first girl Eugene ever loved. Casper tells her he wants things with Ashleigh to be serious, prompting Scarlett to declare that all she’s done, lying in court, looking after Eugene, was all for him. Cass tells her if only things had been different, and she hadn't been his brother's wife. Scarlett goes to Eugene, where he can see she has her bags packed to leave. She is unable to explain her real reasons to him, and Eugene doesn't beg her to stay, instead telling Scarlett to just go. George announces UEFA have agreed a deal - Liam drops the lawsuit and they will drop the ban, on one condition: they will still proceed with an inquiry at the end of the season. Liam wants to take the offer, as it's two months of football when he could refuse and still lose in the end. Chloe asks Liam if he meant what he said about wanting her back. He says he did, and it seems the two are back together as outside the club two lads ask Liam to sign their Truth MacKay t-shirts. Notes: Last appearance of Scarlett Rose (Lauren Gold) The Best: Ryan and Anthony Gardner having banter as the two teams wait in the tunnel for news on the match starting. Quotes: Lynda, with her comment of this season: (to Alex) "So you see the papers are right. It was my fault, I started it all. I'm the woman who killed football!" Foreshadowing: Gavin tells Chloe he wants Liam to be his best man, in preparation for the return of Cindi and the wedding story from the next episode. Continuity: Casper remembers to Eugene how when they were kids he was going to be Karl Fletcher and Eugene John Barnes. Gavin recalls how Lynda herself signed him as a schoolboy. This would have been after 3.50 in the 1999-00 season, when Lynda first began to take an active role in the club. 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