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Post by maninasuitcase on Apr 19, 2020 23:46:10 GMT
Anyone remember this gem.
Only ever saw it once but recall some very funny moments including this gem of Pontefract Athletics sloping pitch 🤣🤣
Enjoy.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Apr 20, 2020 11:43:25 GMT
I haven’t seen this since it was transmitted. Very funny, and I remember it was a very accurate piss take of the heyday of the FA cup in the 1970s. I remember the cup final song making me laugh. Will watch later 👍
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Post by murphthesurf on Apr 20, 2020 18:54:36 GMT
Anyone remember this gem. Only ever saw it once but recall some very funny moments including this gem of Pontefract Athletics sloping pitch 🤣🤣 Enjoy. Yes indeed.  Coincidentally I nearly posted exactly the same clip on the EEFC thread yesterday in response to a great YT clip which Rog posted of a Ripping Yarns footie match. Bostock's Cup is absolutely brilliant - one of the cleverest, funniest things ever written, completely true to how UK football was in the 1970s, and ever since the dressing room 'bad language bleep-bleep' scene first appeared it has been much copied all over the place but never bettered. Luckily I videod the programme when it was on the TV in 1999 and I watched & watched that tape countless times until videos were replaced by DVDs and Mr. Surf transferred the tape to a disc for me. I still find it screamingly funny and watch it often. Some years ago I asked the TV company who produced it if they could let me have a DVD copy and they replied that they could, for a cost of £200……. so I pursued it no further as my home-made copy was perfectly adequate. Whyever on earth they don't release it as a DVD is baffling, because they'd sell copies by the million and I've always thought they should screen it again, eg. every four years, before a World Cup run starts, to be enjoyed all over again. Bostock's Cup was written by Chris England, who also plays one of the Bostock team players called George Best (any mention of the name always being followed by "no, not THAT George Best") and does a very passable NI accent and copy of Bestie's iconic arm-in-the-air goal celebration. Nick Hancock also stars in the film and does a perfect job. It's hilarious from start to finish and is the one DVD (well, with West Wing) I'd save if I had to pick just one out of the whole lot. Chris England also wrote the stage play 'An Evening with Gary Lineker'. From memory it was televised starring Martin Clunes. |
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Post by Dutchpeter on Apr 20, 2020 19:04:39 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on Apr 20, 2020 19:11:43 GMT
Anyone remember this gem. Only ever saw it once but recall some very funny moments including this gem of Pontefract Athletics sloping pitch 🤣🤣 Enjoy. Yes indeed. Coincidentally I nearly posted exactly the same clip on the EEFC thread yesterday in response to a great YT clip which Rog posted of a Ripping Yarns footie match. Bostock's Cup is absolutely brilliant - one of the cleverest, funniest things ever written, completely true to how UK football was in the 1970s, and ever since the dressing room 'bad language bleep-bleep' scene first appeared it has been much copied all over the place but never bettered. Luckily I videod the programme when it was on the TV in 1999 and I watched & watched that tape countless times until videos were replaced by DVDs and Mr. Surf transferred the tape to a disc for me. I still find it screamingly funny and watch it often. Some years ago I asked the TV company who produced it if they could let me have a DVD copy and they replied that they could, for a cost of £200……. so I pursued it no further as my home-made copy was perfectly adequate. Whyever on earth they don't release it as a DVD is baffling, because they'd sell copies by the million and I've always thought they should screen it again, eg. every four years, before a World Cup run starts, to be enjoyed all over again. Bostock's Cup was written by Chris England, who also plays one of the Bostock team players called George Best (any mention of the name always being followed by "no, not THAT George Best") and does a very passable NI accent and copy of Bestie's iconic arm-in-the-air goal celebration. Nick Hancock also stars in the film and does a perfect job. It's hilarious from start to finish and is the one DVD (well, with West Wing) I'd save if I had to pick just one out of the whole lot. Chris England also wrote the stage play 'An Evening with Gary Lineker'. From memory it was televised starring Martin Clunes. For some reason ITV doesn’t celebrate and promote its archive in the way the BBC does. If ‘Bostock’s Cup’ was BBC it’d probably be a well loved cult favourite, instead of a half forgotten gem. ITV stations like Thames were far superior to the BBC in terms of its productions. A shame that stuff like this is forgotten. |
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Post by maninasuitcase on Apr 20, 2020 19:31:37 GMT
Hunting Venus was another with Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey.
As mentioned these gems should be repeated.
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