Dave Hanratty
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Modelled off Graham Taylor's The Impossible Job, and it's part that and it's kind of part Martin Bashir.
People remember the journalist at the time who did like the Michael Jackson behind the scenes and Princess Diana.
He's subsequently become quite controversial for that interview.
But so it's kind of like part Martin Bashir documentary, part, you know, The Impossible Job.
And it's like a behind the scenes with the England camp kind of thing.
And it's just very, very funny.
It's like a send-off of so many kind of footballing cliches and footballing tropes.
Ricky Tomlinson is very good as Mike Bassett.
And there's a couple of funny cameos, like Pelรฉ makes a very good cameo in it.
And then there's one very funny slash, you'll see this clip here, somewhat emotional when he, before the final group game, they need to beat Argentina to get to the knockout stages.
He's fielding, you know, questions from a, you know, a venomous English press pack.
And he just quietly...
And there's been a lot of like, what formation are you playing?
So yeah, he's getting a lot of criticism for playing 4-4-2.
You know, he's playing, you know, very traditional rigid formation.
These journalists want to, you know, they're in Brazil.
They want to kind of a more like open style.
He's been sticking to his guns.
And then when he's feeling all these questions, he's kind of very quiet and he goes into a very, very powerful starting small rendition of Rudyard Kiffling's If.
That's Mike Bassett, England manager.