No one can replace the late, great Peter Cook, the funniest comedian ever. He would have made a great pundit: 'what the hell was the ref doing there? chewing a pillow or something?' I could also imagine him asking Ian Wright if he'd been disinfected since he'd last worn the Arsenal kit
My first game at WHL was October 1969 v Sunderland. Peter Cook did a match report on Grandstand. He called it the worst football match ever [although it was Stevie P's debut]. As I remember it, the whole transcript is in Greavesie's autobiography. Unfortunately, I can't find the footage on line anywhere but I have seen it on a Peter Cook retrospective, so it does still exist We'll all have to make do with this from 1977 and the home draw against Palace. Peter starts at 8:28. Before that is some toe curling stuff from Chavs and Gooners and Peter Taylor's 'Norman Wisdom'.......yeuch.
It's only 33, Deedub. Let's not exaggerate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–18_Chelsea_F.C._season#Loan_out
please log in to view this image Obviously the correct post-match behaviour is to do a big knee slide down the pitch or poke a coach in the eye: He's such a fragile little bitch. Add the dull, boring football and I can't wait for him to **** off, again.
Peter Cooks genius was that he was so spontaneous. If anyone can find transcripts of his final character, Stig, please post them. Stig appeared on a late night phone-in, on Radio London I think. No one realised it was Peter Cook until Cook's death which coincided with Stig going quiet. However, after his death, people realised it was obviously Cook due to the very distinctive voice. He told a story about sitting up late at night waiting for his girlfriend who was out with other men. Listeners rang in to offer advice, generally advising him to get rid of her. He came back with lines like he couldn't get rid of her because he loved her so much. Everyone felt sorry for Stig, most thought he was a bit sad and should move on. The saga went on over a number of weeks or even months, I can't remember, I didn't hear them all. It would be great to hear them from the start, but knowing it was Peter Cook at his finest. And talking of finest, he was at his best with satire, and the parody of Judge Cantley's summing up in the Jeremy Thorpe trial must be one of his best. "You will probably have noticed that three of the defendants have very wisely chosen to exercise their inalienable right not to go into the witness box to answer a lot of impertinent questions. I will merely say that you are not to infer from this anything other than that they consider the evidence against them so flimsy that it was scarcely worth their while to rise from their seats and waste their breath denying these ludicrous charges..." 'You are now to retire, as indeed should I, carefully to consider your verdict of "Not Guilty".'
I believe it was 49 last season, so they're cutting down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_Chelsea_F.C._season#Loan_out I find it quite hard to criticise, to be honest. They're making money from it, bringing players through and still succeeding with the youth players that they keep behind. I'm not sure how sustainable it is, but it appears to be working pretty well at the moment.
Only in terms of the progression into the senior starting XI. In terms of stockpiling talent to prevent your rivals getting/developing them, and at least breaking even on costs when you finally discard them, it seems to work.
Of course there isn't a history of Man Utd players overly celebrating to an obnoxious degree... And certainly not when the game still has another twenty minutes to be played...
Old Brian Moore.Nice to hear his voice again. Always made sense while we tried to understand Jimmy Hill's twaddle. (Always suspected Brian was a secret undercover Spurs fan because he was so perky when they were on! A pleasant change from the Gill's!...maybe?)
Does it not embarrass you that a parked bus has outscored you when you have the best striker and midfielder in the league in your attractive attacking team?
If that's true....yes it bloody does! But how do you manage when some players are off and some players are injured....most of our best players too......and all at the same time. I honestly can't remember the last time that happened......but when they all come back...hold on to your drawers!
Only having a gentle pop mate, it just makes me laugh when people go on about "parking the bus" when the only team to out score us are the supposed gods of football. Doesn't say much for all the other teams
That doesn't mean you don't park the bus..just means you're clinical with the few chances you get. Rest of the time the bus is parked
