Likely Lads episode where they did not want to know the football score

[Never to the dark side]

is on tonight(TUESDAY)which is FIFTY years after the episode was first shown

BBC4 at 20:30pm

[Flamin Groovy]

England f………..

[The Dolman Pragmatist]

Brian Glover the geezer trying to spoil their day.  When he died, the Guardian obituary said he died of a Brian Tumour...

[Red-Robbo]

21 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Brian Glover the geezer trying to spoil their day.  When he died, the Guardian obituary said he died of a Brian Tumour...

I suppose, in a way, he did.

[Malago]

 

Brian Glover in Kes.

 

[Mendip City]

Thanks for the heads-up. Brilliantly funny even if a little “of its time”. 

[RoystonFoote'snephew]

1 hour ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Brian Glover the geezer trying to spoil their day.  When he died, the Guardian obituary said he died of a Brian Tumour...

Back in the late 70s I was fortunate to meet and talk with Brian Glover when just occasionally he would have a drink in the Queens Elm at 241 Fulham Road. Sadly, like Brian, the pub is no more. 

[GrahamC]

4 hours ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Brian Glover the geezer trying to spoil their day.  When he died, the Guardian obituary said he died of a Brian Tumour...

He was a brilliant actor.

Always remember him in Porridge, where like everyone else in the cast he was superb.

Someone says to him “never judge a book by its cover” to which he replied “I do, I can’t read”.

[archie andrews]

Kes is a very good film probably in the cult bracket.... 

[spudski]

3 hours ago, Malago said:

 

Brian Glover in Kes.

 

A bit before my childhood, but so much is the same. 

We had a PE teacher just like that. 

[Norn Iron]

Ant and Dec remade this episode several years ago. I avoided it just like the result!

[archie andrews]

2 minutes ago, Norn Iron said:

Ant and Dec remade this episode several years ago. I avoided it just like the result!

Didnt reeves and mortimer do kes too NI? 

[PHILINFRANCE]

5 hours ago, Malago said:

 

Brian Glover in Kes.

 

A wonderful clip from an excellent film.

[ashton_fan]

5 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

Back in the late 70s I was fortunate to meet and talk with Brian Glover when just occasionally he would have a drink in the Queens Elm at 241 Fulham Road. Sadly, like Brian, the pub is no more. 

I remember that pub from my student days, did a brilliant shepherd's pie and baked beans, that was the early 70s

[Southport Red]

Love how he avoids finding out the score, gets home, his wife says “Goodnight luv, enjoy the game…

 

…you won’t see any goals though”

[PHILINFRANCE]

Kes was the first Ken Loach film I ever watched, although I wasn’t aware at the time that he was the Director nor, indeed, who he was.

I was a teenager at the time, and I watched it at school, either in an English class or in our film club.

I remember I cried, which was quite embarrassing as I went to an all boys school, so I received the usual teasing.

I watched it again many years later, and, even though I knew the plot, I cried again - I was alone this time, so suffered no teasing.

As I said earlier, though, an excellent film, as are most films directed by Ken Loach.

[Barry Sheene]

6 hours ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Brian Glover the geezer trying to spoil their day.  When he died, the Guardian obituary said he died of a Brian Tumour...

 

Brian Glover is excellent in an episode of Minder called "The beer hunter"

"Hello Chuffer"

[Bristol Rob]

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

He was a brilliant actor.

Always remember him in Porridge, where like everyone else in the cast he was superb.

Someone says to him “never judge a book by its cover” to which he replied “I do, I can’t read”.

Green it was.

[steviestevieneville]

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

He was a brilliant actor.

Always remember him in Porridge, where like everyone else in the cast he was superb.

Someone says to him “never judge a book by its cover” to which he replied “I do, I can’t read”.

Green it was

[Curr Avon]

7 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

is on tonight(TUESDAY)which is FIFTY years after the episode was first shown

BBC4 at 20:30pm

Whatever happened to you?

Whatever happened to me?

What became of the people, we used to be?

[Never to the dark side]

There was another similar footy story with Syd James and Tony hancock in 1959 about football pools

There must have been a few more as well

[CiderJar]

Of course, these days, we have YouTube for such nostalgic trips

 

 

Edited June 14, 2023 by CiderJar

[CiderJar]

1 hour ago, Never to the dark side said:

There was another similar footy story with Syd James and Tony hancock in 1959 about football pools

There must have been a few more as well

https://youtu.be/DhGGCXug3Hc

[CiderJar]

And then there is this which has become a classic in its own right

 

 

[Port Said Red]

1 hour ago, CiderJar said:

Of course, these days, we have YouTube for such nostalgic trips

 

 

I watched all of them recently on That's TV on Freesat, I think it's available on Freeview too. It was enjoyable and compared to other shows of the time it's comparatively enlightened, even the blatant sexism is reserved for the nastier characters.

Almost anything written by Dick Clement and Ian Lafrenais was great comedy.

[Norn Iron]

4 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

I watched all of them recently on That's TV on Freesat, I think it's available on Freeview too. It was enjoyable and compared to other shows of the time it's comparatively enlightened, even the blatant sexism is reserved for the nastier characters.

Almost anything written by Dick Clement and Ian Lafrenais was great comedy.

Their film Water was very good too. They also rewrote a James Bond script....the remake of Thunderball due to copyright etc Never Say Never Again. They even used a classic line from Porridge in it.

[The Dolman Pragmatist]

14 hours ago, Barry Sheene said:

 

Brian Glover is excellent in an episode of Minder called "The beer hunter"

"Hello Chuffer"

…and of course he tells the ‘Remember the Alamo’ joke in The Slaughtered Lamb pub in An American Werewolf in London.

[Nogbad the Bad]

15 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

Kes was the first Ken Loach film I ever watched, although I wasn’t aware at the time that he was the Director nor, indeed, who he was.

I was a teenager at the time, and I watched it at school, either in an English class or in our film club.

I remember I cried, which was quite embarrassing as I went to an all boys school, so I received the usual teasing.

I watched it again many years later, and, even though I knew the plot, I cried again - I was alone this time, so suffered no teasing.

As I said earlier, though, an excellent film, as are most films directed by Ken Loach.

After school film club Phil, I was there.

Showed some great films, Rosemary's Baby, Bonnie & Clyde and Cabaret were others iirc.

I think a (comparatively) young teacher, Chris Beale, was in charge, also spotted him at AG.

[PHILINFRANCE]

3 minutes ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

After school film club Phil, I was there.

Showed some great films, Rosemary's Baby, Bonnie & Clyde and Cabaret were others iirc.

I think a (comparatively) young teacher, Chris Beale, was in charge, also spotted him at AG.

You weren’t one of those cruel bastards who teased me when I cried, were you?

[SecretSam]

15 hours ago, Southport Red said:

Love how he avoids finding out the score, gets home, his wife says “Goodnight luv, enjoy the game…

 

…you won’t see any goals though”

When I was a kid, my stepdad () wanted to watch the Big Match on ITV Sunday lunchtime, round at his Aunt's. He went out of his way to avoid finding out the score, and when we arrived the first thing he said was "Don't tell me the score, Hilda, I want to watch the Big Match"

She said "OK, fine. Bloody rubbish game anyway, weren't any goals"

I swear I nearly died laughing.

[Nogbad the Bad]

3 minutes ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

You weren’t one of those cruel bastards who teased me when I cried, were you?

Possibly if your blubbing prevented me hearing the film!

Seriously, I doubt it very much, there was a fair sprinkling of unpleasant w*nkers at that school (must have been Rovers fans!) and although I'm sure I was far from perfect I'm pretty sure I didn't join in on ganging up on anyone.

[southside]

15 hours ago, Barry Sheene said:

 

Brian Glover is excellent in an episode of Minder called "The beer hunter"

"Hello Chuffer"

"Anorexic whippet"

[Eddie Hitler]

10 minutes ago, SecretSam said:

When I was a kid, my stepdad () wanted to watch the Big Match on ITV Sunday lunchtime, round at his Aunt's. He went out of his way to avoid finding out the score, and when we arrived the first thing he said was "Don't tell me the score, Hilda, I want to watch the Big Match"

She said "OK, fine. Bloody rubbish game anyway, weren't any goals"

I swear I nearly died laughing.

 

A mate had similar, Newcastle fan living in Newcastle, there were late extended highlights on of a big game, either Newcastle or England, I don't recall, and he had been out for the evening avoiding hearing the score.

When he returned to watch it he said to his mum "Don't tell me the score"

And she said...

"It's alright, nobody scored."

 

[Curr Avon]

8 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

There was another similar footy story with Syd James and Tony hancock in 1959 about football pools

There must have been a few more as well

For the best odds, contact Ivan Toney at Bet232.

[Redtucks]

19 hours ago, GrahamC said:

He was a brilliant actor.

Always remember him in Porridge, where like everyone else in the cast he was superb.

Someone says to him “never judge a book by its cover” to which he replied “I do, I can’t read”.

I remember him saying, "I read a book once! Green it was!"

 

[Bristol Oil Services]

19 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

A wonderful clip from an excellent film.

I prefer the bits with kestrels innit

[Open End Numb Legs]

On 13/06/2023 at 18:46, spudski said:

A bit before my childhood, but so much is the same. 

We had a PE teacher just like that. 

I think we all had PE teachers like that. Ours were only interested in using the lesson like a boot camp. No one enjoyed it. They each had their favourite sport and didn't care about the other sports they should be teaching. None of them knew about cricket and used to ask me to teach the rest of the class as my Dad was a good player and taught me so much.

The misery of rugby in the autumn term will never be forgotten.

Apologies for going off topic.

[Red-Robbo]

2 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

I think we all had PE teachers like that. Ours were only interested in using the lesson like a boot camp. No one enjoyed it. They each had their favourite sport and didn't care about the other sports they should be teaching. None of them knew about cricket and used to ask me to teach the rest of the class as my Dad was a good player and taught me so much.

The misery of rugby in the autumn term will never be forgotten.

Apologies for going off topic.

 

Funnily enough, ours were opposite: loved cricket, not that interested in anything else, with football coming near the bottom of the tree. Athletics, my own personal area of excellence, was pretty much ignored and we just went off to do it ourselves. Luckily myself and one classmate were good enough to get extra-curricular coaching from international standard coaches based in Millfield, just down the road. 

[Port Said Red]

I did actually manage to avoid all the football on the final day of the season and only watch unfold on one of those "timeline" MOTD's they do, the great thing about it was that it was the Man City AGUERO! year, and I was in complete disbelief at the end.

[Midred]

On 13/06/2023 at 15:30, Malago said:

 

Brian Glover in Kes.

 

His character would fit in well with the EFL!