
'Bostock's Cup' I don't know about you, dear viewer, but I'd watch anything with TIm Healy in it. And here, in these two short clips, Healy is blinking hilarious, perfect as Bertie Masson, a 'two bob' manager in the spoof documentary 'Bostock's Cup', Nick Hanford's affectionate piss take of '70s football, shown in 1999, the night before Manchester United beat Bayern Munich to win the European Cup. This team tactics clip is good but the half-time 'talk' by Masson, after he's watched Bostcok go behind 3-0 to non-league Pontefract Athletic in the third round of the FA cup, is 'kin wonderful (see separate clip). It seems impossible to buy the programme on DVD or VHS anywhere so I was thrilled to find a VHS copy (in the attic) from which these clips are taken. Even though the spoof as a whole isn't as good as I remembered it, the half time team talk is. Masson has been brought in on the cheap by Bostock Stanley's directors to change the fortunes of the no-hope third division club. Thanks to his lucky hat, bribery and luck, and with cliches "flying around thicker than confetti at a spring wedding" (Mike Dello) Bostock Stanley stumble and bumble and fluke their way to the FA Cup Final and a 1-0 win over Leeds. Half the cast of Coronation Street when it was still half decent seems to be in the programme: there's Alec Gilroy (Bet Lynch's husband), the bloke who played Des Barnes, not to mention the egotistical, fancy-dan star of Bostock Stanley, Alan Hardy, who once played, I'm <b>...</b>
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