FADE IN:
EXT. NOU CAMP – NIGHT
WE OPEN with a bright evening in Catalonia. A Stadium covered in a sea of Navy & Blue memorabilia. There’s Drums on the north side, baying legions of frenzied Ultras on the left side, kids, mothers, sons and even the formal wearing executives in suits scattered in the middle seats, and all chanting. In between those singing for their team to open the scoring. We Push Close to the BOLD ONE in Grey whose nerves were causing sweats and panic from the broadcasters above.
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INT. PRESS BOX – NOU CAMP – NIGHT
A wide eyed freshly faced MANCUNIAN is on the seat’s end, notes of five minutes ago scrunched, locked in the palm of his fingers as he is fixated on the events below. Panting before he starts his stressed sentence.
MANCUNIAN
(into microphone)
This is madness. I have never SEEN anything like this.
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PITCH SIDE VIEW – MULTI PLAYER CLOSE UP
STATIC CAMERA – Aerial Shot diagonally of the Pitch. Messi is on the Floor. Neuer is 30 yards from his Goal. Suarez has his arms out in protest. Whistles and tensions in the crowd are getting louder.
The BALD ONE is frozen, looking on, sweats of ice leaving him statuesque.
INTERCUT – VOICE FROM BACKGROUND DURING CAMERA CHANGE
MANCUNIAN
(A Smug Sigh before he begins)
Well the Tactics look Naive.
What a great chance for Suarez.
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PITCHSIDE
Bayern Munich players exposed again. Holes all over the Pitch. Suarez is One on One & Has a shot saved by Neuer. Boateng, Raphina look dismayed.
MANCUNIAN
(Caught between fear & excitement in his voice)
He’s GOT to change it. This is Madness!
There playing One v One on the Counter
everytime vs Messi, Neymar & Suarez
at the Nou Camp.Only HE could do this!
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TOUCHLINE – BAYERN DUG OUT
CAMERA Locks in on The BALD ONE. His Lip bitten and eyes looking up ominously. The Stadium is now a prison for his players who are at the mercy of Barca. They are under Siege. The Bald One walks two steps across, saying nothing, lost in the gladiatorial atmosphere of 88,000 Culers. Screeching. Whistling. A Cannoned arena awaiting to erupt. All at the fortune of the BALD ONES Grand master plan. Where luck, somehow is leading.As this goes long from from Neuer Again…
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PITCHSIDE:
Barcelona enter the Bayern Box again and have a 4 V 3 on.
INTERCUT – VOICE FROM BACKGROUND DURING CAMERA CHANGE
MARTIN TYLER
There in Again. Still Suarez.To Neymar.
UARGHH!
Well he must have thought
he was going to make it 1-0 Barcelona
MANCUIAN heavily breaths out as we hear his uncomfort, his state of shock and complete bafflement as to what he’s seeing.
MANCUNIAN
The Barca front 3 are like little kids at a Sweet shop. There’s now way Bayern can sustain This. It’s Like Rocky v Clubber Lang at the moment
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TOUCHLINE – BAYERN DUG OUT
CAMERA Moves Across focusing on BOLD ONE, frantically mouthing instructions to his players, as a wave of three to four assistants jump up – giving further command. An Emergency change of sort is Happening.
And as the 5th big Chance is Missed, after 18 minutes of some of the most pulsating Champions league Knockout football to be played from the first quarter of the tie, calm is resumed, order is restored and the BALD ONE on his return home fixes his high risk idea to a moderate back four & The Mancuinan in the gantry can breathe again. A Man who served us many nights of entertainment in the early 2010s was responsible for this, that man, was Pep Guardiola. And the Vessel we lived through, to feel, experience and immerse ourselves with those who sat amongst the unfolding drama, was the man himself: Gary Neville