Forfar Four…. East Fife Five

Posted on November 6, 2007   |   Filed under: MoTD  |  Tags: England  |  Add a Comment »  

A bit of football and comedy… No I’m not talking about the current England squad.

A couple of audio clips I stumbled across found when – as these things always happen – when I was looking for something else. Then after finding these clips I forgot what I went looking for in the first place.. Again doesn’t this always happen.

[From then and now]

First one comes from one of the original Goons. One of the Fathers of our surreal British comedy. Michael Bentine had a 30 minute sketch show on the BBC called It’s A Square World…

Bentine, Michael. The one that did all the crazy voices. Look him up.
You may remember him better for Michael Bentine’s Potty Time. Kids show with the hand puppets and Bentine did all their voices. Sadly I could only find one clip of the show on YouTube.

Anyhoddles.

I don’t know if the clip is the full sketch of just an excerpt. There are CD’s on Amazon UK that have the track, but it doesn’t give any detail as to how long the sketch was. In either way…

» Michael Bentine with the football results

Next up: It wouldn’t be a footie/comedy post if I didn’t mention him »

Not on YouTube but worth searching out – The one where they talk about Lineker.

And Finally: If you’ve seen or heard any of the adverts done by $ky Sports for their football coverage…

Done by Mitchell and Webb and I’m not sure of the source, whether it was taken from their radio series or TV show.

» Mitchell and Webb – Watch the football !

The Footie Song

Posted on October 13, 2007   |   Filed under: MoTD  |   |  Add a Comment »  

Whilst we are waiting for the kick off, for your viewing pleasure a clip from those muddy funsters Adam & Joe.

The Footie Song:

See Victoria Point

Posted on September 13, 2007   |   Filed under: MoTD  |   |  Add a Comment »  

Well that seems to be it for his blog. No updates since August 16th which means no new material for me to rip the piss out of. So now I have to trawl the web. See what you’ve resorted me to Derek ?! Come on chap, get one of your lackies to ghost write something new for us.

In the meantime some non-footie newsstuff I’ve found about Derek and Skeletor:

Via Metro.co.uk: Beckhams up for comedy award

It is an award they might not want to actually win – David and Victoria Beckham have been nominated for the title of Funniest Double Act.

The pair are up for the gong thanks to their bid to conquer the US…

Loaded editor Martin Daubney said: “Perhaps it’s Victoria’s growing comedy chest or her attempts to integrate into American culture by pitching at baseball matches that have had the British public laughing.

“It’s been a vintage year for comedy and the nominations in this year’s Laftas are a testament to that.

“The Laftas are voted for by the Great British public which makes them the only comedy awards worth their salt. What we have here are the funniest fellas and fillies in the land – and a few surprises, too.

Another one:

Via Digital Spy: Beckhams top ‘Overrated 100′ poll

The Beckhams have topped a magazine list of the most overrated celebrities.

The former England football captain and Spice Girl, who moved to LA earlier this year, were number one in Radar magazine’s list of the ‘Most Over-Hyped People on the Planet’.

Everybody is ripping it out of them, probably glad they moved to LA now than going back to Blighty. But that’s the way with us innit. Build them up and then knock ‘em down.

Another potshot taken at them is a spoof documentary series called Star Stories. This spookily accurate portrayal of their story so far was first shown on Channel 4 this time (September) last year.

View the episode…

Edit: Can't embed the video, so click on the image below to view Part 1
» Part 2 here.
» Part 3 here.

“GARY NEVILLE !”    

In Memory Of…

Posted on August 30, 2007   |   Filed under: MoTD  |   |  1 Comment »  

Anton Reid	Antonio Puerta
Ray Jones	Rhys Jones

I like this trend now where the fans stand and give a minutes applause. It is a good thing. We should celebrate their life, not mope about it.

Footie Podding

Posted on August 27, 2007   |   Filed under: MoTD  |  Tags: Podcasts  |  Add a Comment »  

These days you don’t have the time to listen to the pundits on the radio, but you don’t need to tune in anymore to get your kicks on 606 (*groans*), thanks to the interweb you can get your occasional, weekly or if you are really addicted, daily fix with some football podcasts.

A guide to what is available online:

The best of the best is the Guardian Football Weekly with James Richardson.
He of the old Football Italia on Channel 4 and now on Sentanta Sport, complete with his puns can be heard every Monday – and now every Thursday too.*
*An exception for this week – the Football Weekly Extra will be posted on Wednesday to cover the Champions League.

Have a listen to today’s (Mon 27th Aug) edition below:

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(Click on James’ bonce to go to the website)

- Next up is The Times Online, who last season had Danny Kelly (previously of that late night telly version of a sports/footie phone-in on Channel 4) but have dropped him for this new season in favour of Gab Marcotti (Talksport and Sky Sports) with Guillem Balague (Spanish sports writer, a big pal of Rafa’s.) They don’t seem to have a regular weekly schedule sorted as of yet. Last posted pod was on August 17th. Click the banner below to go to the site and to listen to the last one:

- Another occasional one, not updated for a week or so is a footie fan website, which does as it says on the box – FanBanta. They have comedians and big footie fans Kevin Day and Mark Webster have a banter about the game and in the one linked to the left – talk to Peter Shilton about England’s problems between the sticks.

If you really luv yer footie and want a daily dose…

There is a quick and dirty summary/update of the day’s action via the Radio 5 Live and their 5Live Football Daily. Click on the image/link below:

– Or if you want a longer pod (2 hours) and a different view on things, try this one from a couple of ex-pats now living in the the USA.
World Soccer Daily is a radio show that can be heard on Sirus Satellite radio. Broadcast every day between 10-12 Pacific Time (8 hours behind the UK). Since they are in the same place these two big gobbed presenters talk about Derek and the LA Galaxy, plus the MLS, the Premier League and everything else so..ccer. They take calls from other Brit Expats and any US Americans and like such as… interested in the game. Click the image to the right to go to the site.

They don’t have a link to their mp3 on the site, you have to either:
-> Subscribe via ITunes (Not recommended, that ITunes stuff is a scam. You can only download and listen on their sofware/hardware, can’t transfer and listen on any other mp3 player)

–> Subscribe to their RSS Feed. * (Recommended. You don’t have to download any software, can listen anywhere. – Grab their RSS Feed and then go to Netvibes.com and enter in the link there. Once you’ve done that you can then click to listen to or to download the file.)

The Trouble With Frank

Posted on August 26, 2007   |   Filed under: MoTD  |  Tags: LA_Galaxy  |  2 Comments »  

So despite Derek flying himself ragged to play in last Thursday’s game for LA Galaxy, they still lost the match and lost it badly.

I know one man doesn’t make a team, but it would be good for the Galaxy to actually have a decent team to play with that one man.

So far since DB23′s arrival they have only won once – and that was thanks to a certain Englishman’s ability to bend one in.

LA Galaxy have to show that they have bought in this one player not just to put bums on seats/sell lots of replica shirts, but to be the ones that help raise awareness for footie in the USA and to do that they have to sack the 2nd Division standard coach.

Get someone in that as well as the Becks, will also raise the form level and will show the rest of the world that the septics are serious about this soccerball game.

Frank Yallop was an average player in his old 1st Division playing days (expecting an email from mickmills to discuss this any second now…) and in my opin, is an average soccerkickball coach too.
Alright he managed the Canadian national side, but that was the Canadian national side, not exactly a high in the FIFA rankings team.

There are (using the American spelling) rumors though, that the LA Galaxy’s Technical Advisor might be moving over to another position in the franchise.
From MLS Rumors:

As the search for a replacement for Frank Yallop proceeds, MLSR sources report that Jurgen Klinsmann has formally been offered the job of LA Galaxy coach/manager.Sources say Klinsmann has been seen touring the Home Depot Center facilities. Jurgen Klinsmann does not live far from Carson, CA and would a natural choice for a high level coach with international experience.

Update: An article in the Times online about the same

Yes I know that California Klinsmann hasn’t exactly got a long coaching history behind him either, but he has played at the highest level and managed the German national team in the World Cup where they were only 1 match away from the Final.
As the quote above says he doesn’t live that far from the ground and I think he would be intrigued by this new and different sort of challenge…