Created by the award-winning playwright Alan Bleasdale (Boys from the Blackstuff, GBH) as a way to entertain his pupils while teaching, Scully also appeared in novels and on the radio before appearing on screen in this Channel 4 series, broadcast in 1984.
Scully dreams of becoming a world-class striker for Liverpool FC, like his hero Kenny Dalglish, but is always brought crashing down to earth by the reality of his situation.
A dysfunctional family, a train-spotting brother called Henry (Elvis Costello) and an attention-seeking best mate, Mooey (Ray Kingsley).
Scully is more than a football drama; it captures the sentiments of working class life in Merseyside in the eighties and remains one of Bleasdale's most memorable dramatisations to date.
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