After August's "Do Not Adjust Your TV Set" moment and September's Tuesday Wednesday Happy Jaze headline*, the metaphorical TVs in Grimsby, and its diaspora, were displaying the "Normal Service Has Been Resumed" message last night.
* For our American viewers, 'Wednesday' refers to Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. The game was played on a Tuesday.
A tanking by the Bees of Brentford was only to be expected. The idea of going all the way to the final, qualifying for Europe, and away trips to Almaty and Košice, were just the dreams of a deranged mind. Mine.
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But there was no crying into the beer. And the outcome led to a more wide-ranging conversation in the London pub afterwards than would have been the case if the improbable had happened. One old geezer (i.e. me) reminisced about the early days of Channel 4, and this little beaut of a film (which I watched again this evening on Prime).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084459/
Never heard of this film.
ReplyDeleteIt was made for television and is very English (not in a Hugh Grant way) and probably didn’t travel very well.
DeleteChris
Haha - gotta love the British press and their headlines - one I remember from 40+ years ago related to Tony Meo losing at the Crucible - "Oh, so low, Meo"!.... might have been in 1984???
ReplyDeleteAnthony Christian Meo is a retired English snooker player. He won the 1989 British Open by defeating Dean Reynolds 13–6 in the final, and was runner-up to Steve Davis at the 1984 Classic
That’s a good one! Don’t remember that.
DeleteAnother great sports one was after Inverness Caledonian Thistle thrashed Celtic. “Super Caley Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious”
Chris
That is great, Chris!
DeleteAnother game closer to the trophy! 😁
ReplyDeleteIt is for Brentford.
DeleteChris
Sorry Chris 😢 I just saw the score in the photo and I thought you had won.
DeleteNo worries Ben. Imagine if we had 😄
DeleteChris
That newspaper headline has now given me an ear work for the next few days I imagine! Ah, what a great film, with the legendary John Arlott doing the commentary. Something to re-watch in the near future. Do you remember 'The Draughtman's Contract' film too, which I think I saw on Channel 4?
ReplyDeleteHappy Days indeed;)!
Yes. I remember the Draughtsman’s Contract. Another classic. The music on it was very good.
DeleteThe Arlott commentary in Alan’s head was a stroke of genius.
Chris