THE WORLD CUP is finally upon us, so to celebrate, it’s back to the summer of 1982 for a glimpse of some old school ITV coverage.
Jeff Wayne’s synthtastic anthem Matador opens proceedings, before BRIAN MOORE introduces a look at ‘one or two of the lighter moments of the tournament’, including cameo appearances from ERIC MORECAMBE (“Just one Cornetto!”) and MIKE YARWOOD (shamelessly essaying a Lopez Ufarte “joke” in the guise of Brian Clough), an interview with Northern Ireland’s mascot ‘Yer Man’ by a tyro EAMONN HOLMES who, frankly, looks like he might be late for his paper round, and an undercover BBC raid on the ITV camp from messrs HILL and McMENEMY.
Featuring: a little something the backroom boys have put together, Brian Moore, Eamonn Holmes, Eric Morecambe, his essential Yarwoodness always shone through, Ian St John, Jimmy Greaves, Jimmy Hill, when Yer Man gets the ball Northern Ireland has it all
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A treat beyond compare, especially BBC invading ITV’s interview with Big Ron…
Maybe a reminder to ITV of how a World Cup should be done, from the London studios and looking like a Spanish Villa….
Posted on June 10th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
“He seduced me, if I can put it that way.”
Posted on June 12th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
The “Yer Man” clip looks like it was lifted from an edition of Ulster Television’s evening news magazine “Good Evening Ulster”; their other sports reporter at the time, Jackie Fullerton (who got an MBE this weekend) was in Spain covering the tournament.
Posted on June 13th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
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