I'd forgotten just how good this documentary was

[The Jorge]

Is Graham Taylor: An Impossible Job the best football documentary ever? Quite possibly so. Taylor and Neal are absolutely perfect, caricatures of football managers so studied you start to doubt whether they're not made by Mike Leigh.

Such a beatuful thing.

http://thesetpieces.com/features/top-10-moments-hit-90s-documentary-graham-taylor-impossible-job/

[Sir C]

Is Graham Taylor: An Impossible Job the best football documentary ever? Quite possibly so. Taylor and Neal are absolutely perfect, caricatures of football managers so studied you start to doubt whether they're not made by Mike Leigh.

Such a beatuful thing.

http://thesetpieces.com/features/top-10-moments-hit-90s-documentary-graham-taylor-impossible-job/

I don't want to watch it again. I'm scared that the memory I have, of one of life's most perfect moments, might be inaccurate :-(

I just want to keep this in my head, unadulterated by truth or fact.

:shout: "Carlton! Carlton! Can we not knock it?" :shout:

[The Jorge]

I don't want to watch it again. I'm scared that the memory I have, of one of life's most perfect moments, might be inaccurate :-(

I just want to keep this in my head, unadulterated by truth or fact.

:shout: "Carlton! Carlton! Can we not knock it?" :shout:

You know what though, it really is as perfect as all that.

[IUFG]

"What we mustn't do, is lose."

"I'M A METRE"

"Could you tell your friend he's just cost me my job?"

dear, oh dear...

[Burney]

Is Graham Taylor: An Impossible Job the best football documentary ever? Quite possibly so. Taylor and Neal are absolutely perfect, caricatures of football managers so studied you start to doubt whether they're not made by Mike Leigh.

Such a beatuful thing.

http://thesetpieces.com/features/top-10-moments-hit-90s-documentary-graham-taylor-impossible-job/

Neal was the star turn for me. A man with no perceptible higher brain function in a job with no perceptible purpose.

[IUFG]

yes, boss.

[Burney]

yes, boss.

You could quite literally have hired a parrot to do his job.

[Burney]

I don't want to watch it again. I'm scared that the memory I have, of one of life's most perfect moments, might be inaccurate :-(

I just want to keep this in my head, unadulterated by truth or fact.

:shout: "Carlton! Carlton! Can we not knock it?" :shout:

Does my mind play tricks on me or did Carlton Palmer actually look fantastic for the first half in the home game against the Dutch? I know it doesn't sound likely, but I seem to remember it happening.

[The Jorge]

"what we mustn't do, is lose."

"i'm a metre"

"could you tell your friend he's just cost me my job?"

dear, oh dear...

hit les!!!

[Burney]

You know what though, it really is as perfect as all that.

It wouldn't have been anywhere near as good if Taylor hadn't been such an apparently nice man so hopelessly beyond his competence. If he'd been an arsehole, it wouldn't have had the same poignancy.

[Sir C]

Does my mind play tricks on me or did Carlton Palmer actually look fantastic for the first half in the home game against the Dutch? I know it doesn't sound likely, but I seem to remember it happening.

My only memory of the game itself is Koeman's two moments of brilliance :hehe:

[The Jorge]

You could quite literally have hired a parrot to do his job.

This is perfect https://vine.co/v/i9QrQ9Wv0Kd

[Luis Anaconda]

My only memory of the game itself is Koeman's two moments of brilliance :hehe:

:vsign: :vsign: :vsign:

That was the game in Holland - the best bit of the Wembley game was of course this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_WWLNCO-6g#t=2m34s

[The Jorge]

It wouldn't have been anywhere near as good if Taylor hadn't been such an apparently nice man so hopelessly beyond his competence. If he'd been an arsehole, it wouldn't have had the same poignancy.

I dont know, he's clearly a **** but he cares, he means well and he thinks he's right. It's basically the pathos of Alan Partridge, just in real life and on the international stage.

[Burney]

:vsign: :vsign: :vsign:

That was the game in Holland - the best bit of the Wembley game was of course this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_WWLNCO-6g#t=2m34s

Decent player, that blond lad. Whatever happened to him?

[Luis Anaconda]

Decent player, that blond lad. Whatever happened to him?

We should have signed him b. And the pacy lad who wins the pen for the equalizer (funny it is never mentioned that that should have been a red as well)

[Sir C]

:vsign: :vsign: :vsign:

That was the game in Holland - the best bit of the Wembley game was of course this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_WWLNCO-6g#t=2m34s

Oh yes. I was at that one.

[Burney]

I dont know, he's clearly a **** but he cares, he means well and he thinks he's right. It's basically the pathos of Alan Partridge, just in real life and on the international stage.

Dunno. He was emblematic of a certain blinkered arrogance and ignorance that still afflicts English football (albeit to a lesser extent), but I don't think that made him a **** per se - merely a product of his background.