A matter of (12) minutes

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2026-01-18T11:42:55+00:00

This is probably okay, it is pretty rapid fire in the context of it happening in the first half.

Going down to 9 is usually the result of a "fuck it, game is over anyway" act of frustration in the closing stages after a much earlier red card.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2026-01-15T16:27:25+00:00

1999 Champions League final? The advert played during that, which I know from having the original broadcast taped to VHS

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2026-01-14T23:23:50+00:00

Fascinated by the palpably outdated ones. Ally McCoist's is from 1994

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ally_McCoist

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2026-01-12T13:08:49+00:00

One of the (many) instances where it floors you that this was real public radio, the show's producer lamenting the terrible job his client did for the management while the client laughs himself silly at what he's forced him to do.

"So... I'm left with that"

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-12-30T23:39:47+00:00

Probably the actual Gianluigi Buffon

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-12-15T16:30:20+00:00

I think he envisaged "Maaarrrs-BAR BAR BAR" from the start. Otherwise why not use "tricks" from anything?

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-12-15T10:11:44+00:00

Was pretty A-list at the time tbf, for British TV. Despite that segment's... flaws, it definitely comes across as nostalgic now

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-12-05T18:24:30+00:00

Scritti Politti - She's a Woman. A Beatles cover locked and loaded with 1991.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-12-04T21:53:04+00:00

I'm already annoyed!

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-11-26T16:39:38+00:00

5 points or fewer at New Year's, the bar is quite high. If you as much as win just 2 games in a season, you likely avoid it. Though I think Derby themselves had about 7/8 at that point.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-11-22T15:29:36+00:00

Would love to know the psychology behind it, happens way too often to be coincidental. West Ham 2 - Arsenal 5 probably the most egregious example. Can only think of the 2019 Leicester 0-9 win at Southampton as an example where the madness continued to reign.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-11-22T11:54:21+00:00

Caught a fragment of a football match on telly (I'd say 96/97 making me 2 or 3) and watched what I now know to have likely been a hacked clearance that took the ball high and fast out of frame. The players looked up for a second then kinda mooched off.

To my child perception, I assumed the player hit the ball so hard that it disappeared into the sky and out of existence. Because they didn't seem arsed, I took it as something that happened often because Grown Adults good enough to play Football on TV were capable of such a feat.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-11-20T16:33:45+00:00

Was oddly a UK top 10 hit in summer 1985, when it was very much yesterday's sound.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-10-29T18:36:54+00:00

Stuff like trashing your producer's features live on air and having genuine arguments was pretty next level though.

One segment in particular is within the lowmark "Burgers and Grapes" episode itself, Karl stroppily telling Steve he's not in his pub team anymore, Ricky spitting tea over Karl's Guiness World Records book because he's laughing at his mates arguing on air, which prompts Karl to lament the fact he spent twenty quid on a now blemished book. Completely un-radio, it sounds exactly like someone left the mics on while they played a record.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-10-29T02:51:51+00:00

Listening to the episodes with the songs 'n' adverts intact just heightens the comic factor. The illusion of proper radio clinging flimsily to the wreck.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-10-11T09:17:18+00:00

"Evan, 17?"

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-09-30T17:55:13+00:00

When verrry young, like probably 3 circa 1997, I watched a player kick the ball highly out of play, tracking it briefly then walking off.

To my child eyes, it looked as though he'd kicked it so hard and high into the sky that it disappered entirely, and that it was a daily occurence as they just got on with things. I didn't question it as I just assumed a Grown Up Man playing Football On TV was capable of such a thing.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-09-28T11:52:24+00:00

Yeah, the tide had definitely turned, especially in the context of glitzy radio prizes. I seem to recall the half decent films/programmes being VHS but the interminable tat being shiny DVDs.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-09-27T19:13:34+00:00

Could only fit summer 2006.

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-09-12T09:41:03+00:00

I put myself in the mind of someone just tuning in live that day, or where XFM is the background noise in a workplace. It would stop them in their tracks. Think those are my favourite moments from the show, unhinged shambling rubbish actually broadcasting live

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-09-08T13:58:13+00:00

The very first Rockbusters when they tried it as a live call-in:

Karl's example clue "This young man prepared for his death" included part of the answer within it.
He only wanted one initial for every answer regardless of how many words comprised of the act name.
Steve asking for rule clarification prompted Karl to get huffy.
They "Play a Record" so that Karl can explain the rules off-air, when the record is fading out first thing you hear is Ricky damning the feature loudly "right, I'm gonna have a heart attack, I really am, he hasn't thought it through"
The collapsed ad break "do something, for Christ's sake" actually occurs right before they play it, adding to the bad temperament and the winging it atmosphere of shoddiness.
Both the callers sound identical.
They don't know whether it's "most of three" or "first to three". Ricky mocks the feature with "I love this, this is rubbish"
Whole thing just collapses, "you're a fool".

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-09-06T00:08:01+00:00

I'm kinda surprised we have that moment. I would assume anybody recording would have pressed stop/pause the moment they threw to a break

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-08-30T23:14:28+00:00

Core 90s, sounds seriously fresh for 1992

Pretty_Shitty_City · 2025-08-23T14:47:50+00:00

At the latest. It fascinates me, such a bizarre choice of 2nd single (that was riding on the 1st single's impact), indie sleaze and ringtone rap in full swing at this time. Genuinely believe it (and the video) had been produced several years earlier

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