What was the event that happened in Hillsborough at killed 96 people?? I don't recall that it was ever really made clear except that it happened at a football match. Who killed them? Was it a riot? or a terrorist, or???
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This is my absolute favourite Cracker episode. Most of the eps earned ten stars from me, but To Be A Somebody deserves at least 12 out of 10 stars. Robert Carlyle's performance: WOW! I cannot describe with mere words how stunning it was.
I was living in Rhode Island in 2003 when I discovered Cracker. A few months earlier, the Station Nightclub Fire killed exactly 100 locals. My sister and her boyfriend (now husband and father of their toddler) were there, but walked away with no physical injury. The parallels between the Hillsborough tragedy and Station Fire tragedy are very poignant for me. They took place on different sides of the Atlantic, 14 years apart... Yet both resulted in almost the same number of deaths. Both were caused by greed, arrogance, and a criminal disregard for basic life safety by authority figures.
If you can get it on dvd get hold of ''Hillsborough'' which is also by the creator of Cracker, Jimmy McGovern. Incidentally it also stars Christopher Ecclestone and Ricky Tomlinson who are both in this episode. It is extremely harrowing and moving and Ricky Tomlinson is fantastic in it. Watching it will give you background on this episode and help you understand what took place. I have never been interested in football and was quite young when Hillsborough happened so didn't take much notice of it at the time, I think I was a teen at the time it happened, only interested in my friends and my social life! I believe you can get this on dvd, sometimes it is shown on Film Four, it was an ITV tv drama.
shareSpeaking of this episode, I could not understand how it was deduced that the head was NEWLY shaven.
shareWay late to reply to this but here it is...I think the point was that Fitz knew that the same person came back. Didn't someone come in after Albie left the newspaper behind to get the 40p, and that guy later described him as just a normal person? While someone said that later on they saw a skinhead go to the store. Fitz was able to construct a scenario (the right one) that these were the same person just with an altered appearance because he shaved his head.
share4p not 40p! An even more trivial amount for such an over-reaction by Albie Kinsella.
shareSo after four years nobody has answered my question?????
shareThe 1989 Hillsborough disaster was an incident that occurred during the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest football clubs on 15 April 1989 at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. The crush resulted in the deaths of 96 people and injuries to 766 others.
The incident was down to the riot fences being in place around the terraces (since removed and all grounds are all seaters nowadays).
Gentlemen, England will be playing 4-4-f---ing-2
"So after four years nobody has answered my question?????"
This raises the question of why, in four years, you didn't look it up yourself. There's an implication that the IMDB is literally the only website that you've ever visited.
Were you sitting in front of your computer, with the IMDB open, hitting F5 every so often, for four years? According to your profile you've spent the last eleven years of your life posting messages to the IMDB seemingly on a daily basis; have you nothing else to do?
Why didn't you just Google it? Pretty sure it would have been top of the list.
shareAlso a bit of a plot hole but.... the box of teabags Albie can't quite afford is an eighty bag box. If you're 4p short why not just buy the forty bag box next to the eighty on the shelf?
I mean, I get the principle etc but really?
Good catch! I didn't even notice.
There were so many things wrong with this. Warning! Spoilers!
So they find out that Jimmy once again does a lousy job of coppering. He was told Albe had recently had his head shaven by the lady across the street. Jimmy spaces it. Penhaligon does the double-checking Jimmy was supposed to do and discovers one of the guys on their list deceived Jimmy into believing he was a cancer patient, when in reality he hadn't missed work in over two years. They could have picked him up for lying to a cop. Rather than sending a car around to pick the guy up, they just pick boogers and stare at each other.
In Albe's set up of Billborough, he feels up Catriona Billborough. Catriona gets Billborough's attention by saying, "That man!" rather than saying, "What about him?" and pulling out the police phone that he pulls out after being stabbed and calling in the location, he decides to run after him. Albe is obviously waiting for Billborough to catch up during the chase, but Billborough doesn't notice he's being set up. And he stands there and waits to be stabbed rather than taking any defensive measures.
The only way this works is if everyone forgets how to be a cop.