Football Focus Or Saint & Greavsie

[George Costanza]

My memory is shit because I don't remember Football Focus as a kid.  Saint & Greavsie and Grandstand yes but not FF.

[Jose Jones]

17 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

Neither.

 

Saint and Greavsie was typical overhyped ITV shite - Greaves would slur some or other music hall gag and St John would collapse in laughter as if Peter fecking Cook was in the studio.

 

Footie Focus was fine so long as you still regarded football as a proper serious sport rather than just as more energetic form of the Stock Exchange.

I sense you are more of a Soccer AM kind of guy?

[Chris]

On 22/09/2023 at 15:18, NoelM said:

Definitely Saint and Greavsie, this is Greavsie and me from 1984. Brilliant man, so funny, coached us and  played on my 5 a side team at a soccer school.

 

Thats fucking brilliant!!

[razor]

Saint and Greavsey when it was called something else.  ITV always seemed more rebellious and better.  But then when they started believing their own hype and their personalities became more important than the content, I went back to safe old Bob on the BBC.

 

I blame the Saint and Greavesy formatting for the abomination that was Soccer AM.  I was talking to a bloke recently who was going on about how brilliant Soccer AM was and because minutes earlier I'd vehemently disagreed with him about something, I had to let it pass without challenge.  A grim experience.

 

On reflection I should have doubled down and started chanting, "Who are ya?  Who are ya?" at him.

[Tony Moanero]

6 hours ago, razor said:

Saint and Greavsey when it was called something else.  ITV always seemed more rebellious and better.  But then when they started believing their own hype and their personalities became more important than the content, I went back to safe old Bob on the BBC.

 

I blame the Saint and Greavesy formatting for the abomination that was Soccer AM.  I was talking to a bloke recently who was going on about how brilliant Soccer AM was and because minutes earlier I'd vehemently disagreed with him about something, I had to let it pass without challenge.  A grim experience.

 

On reflection I should have doubled down and started chanting, "Who are ya?  Who are ya?" at him.

Soccer Am was like a football themed Big Breakfast.

[Section_31]

One thing that's not been talked about with football focus is maybe people are finally getting bored with a city dominated league.

[Trumo]

I would think Baddiel & Skinner's Fantasy Football League had a bigger influence on Soccer AM than Saint & Greavsie.

[bizzle10]

Saint and Greavsie obviously does anyone remember Donald Trump doing the I think at the time Rumbelows cup draw in a hotel in New York ? Or did I dream that 

[gkmacca]

12 hours ago, Jose Jones said:

I sense you are more of a Soccer AM kind of guy?

 

Yes, what a televisual treat that was.

[TheDrowningMan]

2 hours ago, bizzle10 said:

Saint and Greavsie obviously does anyone remember Donald Trump doing the I think at the time Rumbelows cup draw in a hotel in New York ? Or did I dream that 

 

 

[Arniepie]

On 23/09/2023 at 08:54, an tha said:

FF because Greaves was an unfunny, embarrassing dad, little Ingerlund beaut.

 

 

remember him wearing a gotcha t shirt

[sir roger]

Trumpy and the boys all just back from Jeffrey's gaff

[Dicko]

The thing about Baddiel & Skinner was that it was shit.

[an tha]

6 hours ago, Arniepie said:

remember him wearing a gotcha t shirt

Aye i remember that too, that shite very much informed my opinion above of him....he was a proper cunt with that sort of stuff.

[Ron B]

33 minutes ago, Dicko said:

The thing about Baddiel & Skinner was that it was shit.

If Fantasy Football had run for two years, never been resurrected, never even rerecorded Three Lions but instead got back to Number One because they rereleased it due to popular demand, it would be remembered more fondly. 

[ZonkoVille77]

21 hours ago, gkmacca said:

Neither.

 

Saint and Greavsie was typical overhyped ITV shite - Greaves would slur some or other music hall gag and St John would collapse in laughter as if Peter fecking Cook was in the studio.

 

Footie Focus was fine so long as you still regarded football as a proper serious sport rather than just as more energetic form of the Stock Exchange.

 

I'd say you get angry when you see a rainbow.

[gkmacca]

7 minutes ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

 

I'd say you get angry when you see a rainbow.

Okay. Thanks for sharing.

[House of Dirk]

On 22/09/2023 at 23:48, aws said:

Tiswas. 

Same

[aws]

24 minutes ago, House of Dirk said:

Same

That was always the clincher. 

[Barrington Womble]

On 23/09/2023 at 22:24, George Costanza said:

My memory is shit because I don't remember Football Focus as a kid.  Saint & Greavsie and Grandstand yes but not FF.

FF was on grandstand and only became a stand alone programme when grandstand finished. It was always pretty much the first part of grandstand, before some weird winter sport from lillihammer. 

[stringvest]

Swap Shop vs Tiswas

[deiseach]

Saint and Greavsie, because it had the previous weekend's goals. It certainly wasn't for their comic stylings.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 minute ago, deiseach said:

Saint and Greavsie, because it had the previous weekend's goals. It certainly wasn't for their comic stylings.

They were often imitated and almost always bettered!

[Section_31]

Saint and Greavsie always had the look of detectives who'd plant drugs on black people then go to the pub for a swift half and lament the fact it wasn't like it used to be.