Birmingham on TV: Screen Two - The Firm
This series of posts about TV related in some way to Birmingham prods me to blog about The Firm (by Alan Clarke for the Screen Two series) which I will happily admit I have been wanting to write about but have been rather avoiding. The connection with Birmingham is simply a scene set in the city. Strangely for a city with five universities, three cathedrals (and there used to be an additional Liberal Catholic pro-cathedral) and three rivers, Birmingham only has one football team, Birmimgham City Football Club, which had its start in the winter of 1875, when the choir cricket team of Holy Trinity church Bordesley thought they would try the new sport of Association Football. BCFC has or had a firm of hooligans called Zulus, which started as a derogatory name for them because of their multicultural nature. In a sense there is very little to be said about this show because the internet is replete with reviews and commentary, so I will just say whatever happens to go through my mind about i...