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[Old Frightful]

I was talking to a guy yesterday who remembers this from a Middlesborough game televised on Match of the Day in the late 60's he reckons. Him and his mates had been out for a few beers and brought fish and chips back to his gaff so they could all watch the football on the telly.

It seems Boro' had this player called George Kinnell...I know, I know, you've worked it out already!

Anyway, early on in the game, somebody put through a cracking pass to our man and Wolstenholme blurted out..

"and that's a fantastic ball through for Kinnell!"

Apparently, it took a while for several mouthfulls of half eaten fish and chips to be cleared up from his carpet.

[Trojan]

The worst example of a faux pas by a commentator I've heard was David Coleman at the 1978 World Cup who described Scotland's Asa Hartford as "a wholehearted player" A few years previously he had been diagnosed with a hole in his heart.
Then there was the example of a player lying on the ground hugging his crotch and mouthing "mi balls, mi balls" and Coleman saying "I think it's his leg"
Then there was Jack Wainwright the late Radio Leeds RL comentator, describing a Leeds game in which the late great John Holmes was playing:
"all these Leeds moves are coming off John Holmes's balls"

Edited by Trojan, 19 December 2010 - 11:50 AM.