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Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly: Saturday Afternoons in Front of the
Telly
The cult Sky
Sports Soccer Saturday anchorman delivers a volley of entertaining
and informative anecdotes about life in front of the videprinter.
Jeff Stelling is a legend amongst football fans. To the millions
unable to get to their teams' games on Saturday afternoons, the
next best thing is undoubtedly the pleasurable company of Jeff and
the Sky Sports videprinter for a cosy marathon on the sofa. If someone's
got to reveal that your beloved team have just gone 3-0 down away
from home and had a man sent off, it's best if it's consummate professional
Jeff who breaks the news to you. Avid Hartlepool fan Jeff knows
our pain and shares our joy but mostly he knows our pain. The long-time
host of Sky Sports' iconic Soccer Saturday show has become a cult
figure, universally admired for his encyclopaedic knowledge of the
game, his genuine and unlimited enthusiasm for ALL levels of football,
and his wicked sense of humour which makes the six-hour long show
simply whiz by. Jellyman's Thrown a Wobbly is a deliciously chaotic,
hugely entertaining, anecdote-ridden, humorous taste of life in
the Soccer Saturday studio. Hear what Jeff has to say about some
of the show's legendary pundits over the years -- ex-players such
as George Best, Rodney Marsh, Chris Kamara, Charlie Nicholas and
Matt Le Tissier. Be a fly on the wall of the hotel bar on Friday
nights as Jeff and his guests gather for a natter and few drinks.
Get the inside track on all those great one-liners: "Mansfield
Town's Gareth Jellyman has been shown the red card for dissent.
Looks like Jellyman's thrown a wobbly." "Darlington's
equaliser has been scored by Guyain Ndumbu-Nsungu. Very much a case
of local boy makes good." (He's from Congo.) "They'll
be dancing in the streets of Total Network Solutions tonight."
"James Brown's grabbed a second for Hartlepool. I feel good!"
Jellyman's Thrown a Wobbly goes a long way to demonstrate how a
six-hour long, studio-based show with no live action pictures and
featuring men gazing into TV monitors which the viewer can't see,
can hold a huge audience enthralled every Saturday afternoon between
August and May.
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