Dave Hanratty

I watched something, because you mentioned it, and in my thought when you said it to me, I thought, Mike Bassett, England manager, what are we doing?

And I watched some of it on YouTube and it was much better than I would have remembered, actually.

Yeah.

And he was, he obviously holds it together.

Yeah, he's hilarious.

He's good at it.

But it's really well shot.

Like, it is shot, when you watch it, it looks like this kind of, like, gritty behind the scenes, kind of whatever, you know, camera they used to do it.

It does really look like an actual documentary.

Yeah, and obviously it's silly.

It's silly?

Yeah, but there was one good scene I just saw on YouTube where I thought, this is funnier than it should be, and I'll butcher the retelling, but in effect, he's named his 26-man squad, but there's 28 names.

And he's talking to the secretary, he's like, no, love, he gave you 26.

And, you know, one of the players is like Roy Hedges, who plays in the third division for Plymouth and somebody else is like Tom Benson.

And he's like, that's the list I gave you.

And it's written on the back of his Benson and Hedges cigarette box.

So on paper, that doesn't sound very funny, but I thought actually I would.

It's got a cult following.

Yeah.

there's one other great clip again I'm going to completely butcher this he's getting onto the team bus and there's loads of fans there shouting like abuse him and he's like come on if you have nothing constructive to say honestly like don't say anything at all this is just not nice and they're like why don't you play you know why don't you play like with two white men why don't you do this and a few people are saying and he's like ah fuck off and he just gets from the bus it's good because their tactical suggestions are high level giving very high level ah just fuck off