What If the Shelbys Had Lost the Epsom Derby Job? — Peaky Blinders What If

Derby Day 1922. Three plans running at once — the pitches, the assassination, the pardon — and every one of them depends on a baker in Camden keeping his mouth shut for nine more days. He doesn't. Sabini's men are already standing on the pitches at six in the morning, and by two o'clock Tommy Shelby's entire future is gone: no licences, no pardon, no company, no Parliament. What's left is twenty-six months in Winson Green, a debt to the IRA that never clears, and a moneylending business in Small Heath that keeps four hundred families fed at forty per cent. It ends in a betting shop in 1934, with a man standing in a queue in his own shop because a twenty-year-old behind the counter has never heard of him. Your turn: would you have stayed, or walked? Tell me in the comments. I read every single one. Subscribe for a new Peaky Blinders what-if timeline every week. By order of the Peaky Blinders. Kapitel: 00:00 Intro 00:46 What Epsom actually was 02:16 Why racecourses were worth killing for 03:47 The man who sells him out 05:23 Darby Sabini 06:37 How thin the margin is 07:19 The change 08:13 Derby Day 09:25 The other two plans 10:21 The field 11:16 The cell 12:51 The charge 13:49 Four years 15:00 What he reads in there 16:44 What Polly does with the family 18:01 Grace 19:19 Grace, in the end 20:12 The man who comes out 21:11 What he builds instead 22:23 Arthur, John, Michael 24:59 Lizzie, and the office that never gets built 26:40 Ada and the other side 28:21 The Gold family 29:51 Nineteen twenty-six 31:17 The Depression 33:15 The war he doesn't get to have 34:54 The betting shop 36:12 Arthur, at the end of it 37:51 The debt that never clears 39:18 How it ends 40:13 What Small Heath becomes 42:06 The photograph 43:20 What this says about the story 45:18 The argument for Epsom 46:25 What this says about you 48:28 One more thing about that afternoon 49:18 What's left