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After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.
Mike Bassett: England Manager
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Ricky Tomlinson Amanda Redman Philip Jackson Bradley Walsh Martin Bashir Phill Jupitus Dean Lennox Kelly Robbie Gee Geoff Bell Pelé Ulrich Thomsen Geoffrey Hutchings Angela Curran Danny Tennant Sean Gilder Mark Burdis Nigel Lindsay Sue Barker Gabby Logan Keith Allen Natasha Kaplinsky Dickie Bird Robert Putt John Alford Dean Holness Scott Mean Terry Kiely Peter McGillycuddy Toby Redwood Show All…
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Mike Bassett - O Treinador Inglês, מייק באסט: מנהל את אנגליה, Тренер, 英伦疯波
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28 Sep 2001
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Ladies and gentlemen, England will be playing Four Four fucking Two.
Watched this as all the news of the bullshit Super League unravelling was coming out. Perfect. One of my favourites of all time.
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a few weeks from now i’ll be watching this after england have crashed out of the world cup to try and extract a hint of joy out of football. only thing that makes me proud to be british is mike bassett screaming ENGLAND WILL BE PLAYING FOUR FOUR FUCKING TWO!!! better manager than southgate
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"And what would your father say if he could see you now?.....Oh, he'd probably quote Kipling or something, 'Walk with kings and all that' You see, he was like a father figure to me.....Well, obviously..."
Norwich City manager Mike Bassett turns his back on Delia Smith to accept the poisoned chalice that is the England managers job. A documentary crew follows his efforts to get a flailing England team to the World Cup Finals in Brazil.
Did I laugh? Probably enough to be favourable about it. The quote up top is perhaps an example of the problem, with it often not trusting its audience to get the joke. I will say the Benson and…
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An absolute 'Harry Maguire smashing his noggin through it to make us comfortable in a knockout game' of a film.
The Ted Lasso series comes close to capturing what we see as the comedy of an American perspective of football, but Mike Bassett stands alone as the daddy of mocking our own view of the beautiful game. Ireland the England b-team, Benson and Hedges, every Pele appearance and of course - "por favor, two pints of lager and a pair of flamin' sambucas". It's genius 😂
Soon it will be Sir Gareth Southgate and England will play 4-2-3-fucking-1!
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Both a satire of English football, as well as a live action drama of my last Football Manager save.
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"We invented football and we gave it to the world. Well I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna bring it back!"
Perhaps the greatest football film ever made is a 2001 cult classic mockumentary starring Ricky Tomlinson. Daft and dated for sure, but everything it spoofs still rings true - the backroom bureaucracy, the negative press, the tactical scrutiny, the yes-men coaches, the gaffes, the scandals, the nation's pride and fall. Nothing has ever come closer to capturing the magic and misery of English football culture, especially during the throes of tournament fever.
But I think what often gets lost in the 'best football film discussion' is that this is also a genuinely hilarious piece of British comedy. Brilliantly…
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“I’m a firm believer that if you score one goal, the other team have to score two to win.”
Absolutely hilarious all the way through, I couldn’t stop laughing. Shame such an entertaining film has a god awful poster that may steer people away.
Really great stuff though, especially if you love the footie!!
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A mate reminded me recently of Mike Bassett: England Manager, a movie I hadn't seen in many a year, but one I had fond memories of from my youth for several reasons. One, I've always been a football fan and keen follower of the England national team in particular and two, I've always been a solid Ricky Tomlinson fan and tend to believe he increases the funny significantly in almost everything he's in. Time, of course, sometimes makes things a little more halcyon and better remembered than they deserved to be, and you often look back and find the sheen has gone... so it's a delight to say that's really not the case at all with Mike Bassett. It remains…
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"It's on me head, son. Not off me head, son" .
Keith Allen should always write the England team's anthems. Even this piss-take was better than Ant and fucking Dec that year.
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