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Real sport, played by real people! The entire LWT series comes to DVD for the very first time! The Game follows a season in the life of Young Prince B , from 1989 through 1990, charting the ups and downs of the Sunday Football League. Presented by Danny Baker, with the blend of passion and wit that has made him a much-loved TV and radio personality, the series treats the team as if they were proper professionals, and not the bunch of amateurs they so clearly are. The Game became the stuff of legend, rarely airing since its first outing on Friday nights in the all-important post-pub slot some 20 years ago. And now, two decades later, those exploits are being made available on DVD for the first time ever so that fans who remember it fondly and a new generation of football fans can follow the fortunes of Young Prince B .
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This made me cry this is so funny.
It's also funny in an ironic way when compared with todays football culture. Instead of bloated with cash, these guys are just plain bloated, instead of foreign managers who can't speak English, English managers whose language you wish you couldn't understand. Instead of from the streets of Peckham and Toxteth via Chelsea and Man Utd to the red carpets on Hollywood and the cat walks of Milan, this is, from the streets of Bethnal Green via Hackney Marshes to the A& E departments of the London and Homerton Hospitals, via the pub.
Pure Genius!! Who thought Sunday League Football could be so entertaining!!!
It's also funny in an ironic way when compared with todays football culture. Instead of bloated with cash, these guys are just plain bloated, instead of foreign managers who can't speak English, English managers whose language you wish you couldn't understand. Instead of from the streets of Peckham and Toxteth via Chelsea and Man Utd to the red carpets on Hollywood and the cat walks of Milan, this is, from the streets of Bethnal Green via Hackney Marshes to the A& E departments of the London and Homerton Hospitals, via the pub.
Pure Genius!! Who thought Sunday League Football could be so entertaining!!!
This is a hark back to football at grass roots level in the early 90s, guys who, rather than being paid millions, pay a fiver to play every Sunday morning.
Skill is in short supply, but endeavour and throwing on an ill-fitting kit and running about like a loony for 90 mins are plentiful.
Bakers exactly the right guy for presenting this, and along with a West London Sunday league manager provides live commentary over the games as the happen. His quips are well timed and interviews are excellent. Particularly enjoyed the training night parts, which most teams spend getting boozed up in the pub.
Within it a few 'legends' are born, a big 'physical' striker Sykesy, goalscorer supreme, another who goes out and get drunk on a Saturday night because the next day he usually scores a hat-trick, the referee who has his own interpretation on the laws of the game, and freely admits it. And a cup final at the end that matches anything you'd see at Wembley or even a World Cup final in terms of excitement.
Buy this, you won't regret it.
Skill is in short supply, but endeavour and throwing on an ill-fitting kit and running about like a loony for 90 mins are plentiful.
Bakers exactly the right guy for presenting this, and along with a West London Sunday league manager provides live commentary over the games as the happen. His quips are well timed and interviews are excellent. Particularly enjoyed the training night parts, which most teams spend getting boozed up in the pub.
Within it a few 'legends' are born, a big 'physical' striker Sykesy, goalscorer supreme, another who goes out and get drunk on a Saturday night because the next day he usually scores a hat-trick, the referee who has his own interpretation on the laws of the game, and freely admits it. And a cup final at the end that matches anything you'd see at Wembley or even a World Cup final in terms of excitement.
Buy this, you won't regret it.
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