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And we're back! Back with a huge blast on a giant golden football trumpet - The Glorious Return Of Own Goals & Gaffs!
The Original Football Dunderheads Show written and presented once more by The Man Who Started IT ALL. Hail Dan!
Oh people will tell you the game’s changed. That it’s a science now. That today's players are precise hyper-fit machines incapable of error and beyond the crackpot cock-ups of yesterday’s squads. Oh yeah?
This DVD begs to differ and proves the magnificent on-field chaos is just as present and correct today as it has always been. See riot-making refs, logic defying misses, the half-cut celebrations, the Eternal Shame Of Being In Goal and the whole giddy gamut of gaffs and own goals!
This is really bad football! Really unbelievable events on the pitch!
Our National Game: It's the Gift That Keeps On Giving! And, Hallelujah, it is back in the hands, eyes and mouth of the man who started the muddy ball rolling.
Yes, Everything's Alright World! Things Are Once More as They Should Be: It's The Glorious Return Of Own Goals & Gaffs!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I bought all hes Own Goal and Gaffs VHS videos back in the 1990s and I was delighted when I saw he was releasing a new DVD. Hes the best out there at doing this kind of football Gaffs DVD so I highly recommend you buy it..... I hope he brings more out in the future
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Whilst there is a glut of this kind of DVD out there, I doubt any of the others are as watchable as this. Danny Dyer??? Danny Baker on the other hand works his magic, he knows when to let the hapless players actions do the talking, and he knows when to interject. Mr Baker understands the game of football better than most, and his entertaining way with words makes what could otherwise be a mundane parade of human error worth watching. This does seem to be a pretty low budget production, I suspect that Baker got a few chums together and just made something without 3rd party interference - creative license is a vital thing. This means that you don't get any terrible music playing under the action, something that should not be overlooked. It does also mean that Baker gets to do whatever he likes, and whilst this mostly hits, the end sequence where Baker makes stuff up about football for about 10 minutes is pretty hit and miss. Anyway, it is good to have the master back at the wheel - this is easy watching, and worth a look if you enjoyed where this series started "back in the day".
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
As an avid fan of Danny Baker's Own Goals and Gaffs as a child -- particularly his piste de resistance, Freak Football -- I would sit and watch the videos again and again. The magic for the childhood me was that Danny Baker seemed to enjoy football in the same way I enjoyed football. Yes, the game was great, but it was the little idiosyncrasies that made the game magic. Danny Baker seemed to 'get' football, his quick wit and love of the game encapsulated perfectly in his commentary over the clips that were being shown. Who could forget the Birmingham City Commentator, the freakyness of very early and very late goals, the floodlight failure, and the good old own goals?
15 years on and my appetite for a new Danny Baker video (errr, DVD) was palpable. My childhood emotions about football, that have been worn down by the frantic obsessive fanaticism of the combination of sky and the premier league emphasising that football isn't something to be enjoyed and celebrated, but something to obsess about, were about to be rekindled.
Alas, no. The first thing of note is that Danny Baker doesn't actually comment on many of the video clips shown. Whereas before there were observations aplenty, now for large tracts of the DVD there's merely football and commentary -- much of it from the same commentator. Secondly, the DVD feels quite short. The run-time is 59 minutes, but it feels much, much shorter. Thirdly, there aren't many stand-out moments of interest. Sure, there are the own goals, and a couple of other amusing situations, but nothing outstanding. Due to the lack of commentary, there isn't an overriding theme running throughout the video, in-spite of the attempt to get a theme running through the medium of 'footballers do a difficult job' and one particularly amusing clip. Finally, and infuriatingly, there's a whole section at the end of the tape where Danny Baker speaks directly to the camera. It feels so much like filler -- so much like an "we're not going to make a decent run-time here, we need something else" -- it's mildly embarrassing.
On the upside, some of the clips are amusing but for this to be Danny Baker's Own Goals and Gaffs you need more Danny Baker! When you watched the old videos you could see that they improved from one to the other because Danny Baker gave more input to each clip. This, on the other hand, felt like a cheap imitation of a Danny Baker football video, put together without reference to the man himself and padded out with waffle.
If you're a fan of the old videos, give this one a miss. For everyone else, this is probably better than any other football 'blunders' DVD, but that's mostly because all the rest are truly awful.
15 years on and my appetite for a new Danny Baker video (errr, DVD) was palpable. My childhood emotions about football, that have been worn down by the frantic obsessive fanaticism of the combination of sky and the premier league emphasising that football isn't something to be enjoyed and celebrated, but something to obsess about, were about to be rekindled.
Alas, no. The first thing of note is that Danny Baker doesn't actually comment on many of the video clips shown. Whereas before there were observations aplenty, now for large tracts of the DVD there's merely football and commentary -- much of it from the same commentator. Secondly, the DVD feels quite short. The run-time is 59 minutes, but it feels much, much shorter. Thirdly, there aren't many stand-out moments of interest. Sure, there are the own goals, and a couple of other amusing situations, but nothing outstanding. Due to the lack of commentary, there isn't an overriding theme running throughout the video, in-spite of the attempt to get a theme running through the medium of 'footballers do a difficult job' and one particularly amusing clip. Finally, and infuriatingly, there's a whole section at the end of the tape where Danny Baker speaks directly to the camera. It feels so much like filler -- so much like an "we're not going to make a decent run-time here, we need something else" -- it's mildly embarrassing.
On the upside, some of the clips are amusing but for this to be Danny Baker's Own Goals and Gaffs you need more Danny Baker! When you watched the old videos you could see that they improved from one to the other because Danny Baker gave more input to each clip. This, on the other hand, felt like a cheap imitation of a Danny Baker football video, put together without reference to the man himself and padded out with waffle.
If you're a fan of the old videos, give this one a miss. For everyone else, this is probably better than any other football 'blunders' DVD, but that's mostly because all the rest are truly awful.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
One More Star Than Deserved
AWFUL AWFUL. So awful it was laughable Danny Baker stumbles his way through a DVD full of substandard viewing! Enough said.
Published 16 months ago by Mrs. D. E. Hurst
Back taxes? Divorce?
Who can tell? But wanting to make a good OGAOG-video again cannot be the reasons why mr. Baker made this, because he is hardly trying. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Ornulf Wang Sandaas
Missed opportunity
I'm afraid I have to agree with the 2-star review below. I absolutely loved Baker's videos back in the 90's. Read more
Published 22 months ago by R. HARRISON
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