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On the occasion of us finding this wonderful 2000 Michael Palin interview at the When Saturday Comes website, here again is the "Golden Gordon" episode of his Ripping Yarns series. I say "again" because, as a few of you may remember, it was posted here some time ago; however, the uploader has since been taken away to be re-educated, and his/her videos have disappeared. Luckily, someone else has submitted it, and in view of the fact that the SIATVS header is culled from said episode (an idea we nicked off these chaps), it would be wrong not to have it available here. Part one is above; subsequent parts are after the jump.

(By the way: does anyone know which teams are featured in the footage at the beginning of the episode? And what grounds the games are being played in? I would guess that the team in the white-sleeved shirts might be Arsenal, and the aerial shot at the end of the montage is obviously Wembley.)



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Hagerty F; Hagerty R, Tompkins; Noble, Carrick, Robson; Crapper, Dewhurst, McIntyre, Treadmore, Davitt

Regular readers will notice some provisional changes made to the left hand side of this here blog. This is the old picture that used to adorn that space below the title:


It's the cover of McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt, Half Man Half Biscuit's fine if somewhat overrated second third (see comments) album (they get better with each record, I feel).

It is, in fact, a still from an episode of Ripping Yarns, a post-Monty Python series by Michael Palin and Terry Jones. The new images in the sidebar are taken from the same scene.

The episode is called 'Golden Gordon' and concerns a fanatical supporter of the world's worst football team and the lengths he'll go to save them. I'll warrant that many a football fan will see a bit of themselves in it...

I'm surprised it's taken me this long to put this up here, so without further ado, here is your feature presentation - 'Golden Gordon':






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