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Nikki, Peggsy
Monday, David
Stevie, Dawn, Andrei
Claudia, Yasmin, Stevie, Maddie |
GS: Bob Adams (Phillip Lester) Yasmin Shawcross (Amma Antwi) Maddie Osbourne (Jane Peachey) Larry Littner (Stephen Rose) Monday is sent on Bob Adams's Harchester Sound show to field angry questions from the fans about when they will be getting a new manager. Monday then gets a question on whether he would be up for managing the club? David leaves his letter of resignation for Lynda, and she asks him to stay on for at least the Charlton game as John Barnes has pulled out. Aware that Maddie is Stevie's fiancée, Claudia learns from Andrei how Stevie has told the dressing room he has slept with her. Peggsy is excited when David livens things up by announcing anyone in the squad has a chance to make his team on Saturday. The team try and persuade Monday into approaching Lynda for the manager's job. Nikki and Gary have a picnic by the Harchester canal, and she presents him with Saturday’s team sheet as a souvenir having made his first selection game. Claudia presents Maddie with her comp for the Charlton game, making sure she doesn't let on to Stevie she will be attending. Monday visits David and puts it to him that having talked to Lynda about taking over as manager, how would he feel being his number two? Dawn, attempting to get her acting career back on track, worries about being too old and storms out on the casting directors. Claudia lets Nikki in on Stevie's bet, and persuades her to hand over Yasmin's number so she can make sure she is at tomorrow's game. David has a confrontation with Lynda in her office over how he is the one with the coaching experience, not Monday. David lays down the law to Monday that he will be in charge until he is removed, and after that he will manage elsewhere, but his days of being anyone's number two are over. David brings Dawn home having made a drunken spectacle of herself in front of Stevie and Andrei, and she admits he must know about she and Alan. David flips, saying with the whole world waiting for him to be fired the last person he wants to talk about is Alan. As the team change before the match, David takes revenge on Stevie for his continued attempts at undermining him as manager and drops him completely from the game. Stevie's worst nightmare comes true when Yasmin and Maddie come face-to-face in the Players' Lounge. The girls realise the full truth, how Stevie has proposed to both of them. A smug Claudia watches on as Stevie's fiancées pelt him with food. Revealing her plan was owing to his bet, Claudia forces Stevie to admit to the dressing room that he did not sleep with her. Speaking with David afterwards, Monday commits to backing him as manager, provided he will let him be his number two. Notes: The Best: Dawn getting drunk in the Blue Room bar and coming onto Stevie and Andrei, until they have to phone the gaffer in order to get away from her! Peggsy going to Danny as he was in the youth team last year, with "night-before nerves” and hearing how he, Jamie and Monday conquered their debut fears. Quotes: Maddie [to Claudia upon spotting Yasmin in the Directors' Box]: "I'm surprised she's here. Still, from what Stevie says she'll go to anything that's free. She'll get drunk and flash her boobs later. She usually does!" Yasmin [vice-versa to Nikki]: "Isn't that that air hostess who was stalking Stevie a couple of months back? What's she doing here? Sad cow!" Continuity: Claudia tells Lynda the most embarrassing thing about Stevie’s bet was that it was just £1. Lynda informs her she had the same bet when she first arrived, only they bet their sports cars on her! Stevie refers to Ian Coates being at 10/1 to return as manager and he's “drying out in a clinic”. Additional Info: High street bookies are giving 3/1 for Ray Wyatt to return, 7/1 Alan Curbishley and even 100/1 on Karl Fletcher resuming his one-day managerial stint. Andrei is twenty-four years old. What Was The Score?: Harchester go in goalless at half time. A pass from Danny sees Monday score, and Harchester win the match 1-0. Soundtrack: Chicane: "Offshore", Air: "Caramel Prisoner" |
