Phoenix from the Flames - Ray Houghton

[t2p]

Greavsy...da man..

[Primordialfan1]

Pronounce it BONER

Hahahahahahahaha The greatest Irish pastime. Laughing at foreigners who've come to visit.

[IrishWidowMaker]

Tihis video shows the best of the English, they laughed their heads off at all the Irish stereotypes & laughed even louder at the IRA soldier Nice one!!

[dubllinlad]

Havin said that ,thats bloody hilarious that clip!!!!! ye gotta laugh, ALL the stereotypes hahaha

[dubllinlad]

Ray Houghton served us well but other that that he's an annoying little tit!!!! if you English or Scottish had to listen to the little bell end rabbitin on and so called commentating on our stations!!!! AND he categorically stated "IM Scottish but they never picked me" when he had been picked for the republic the little drone has made a killing being "Irish" with his fucked up little accent,I know people from all over Scotland and none of them speak like that little warbler!!! rant over

[comicgenius21]

Stand next to Shane McGowen for 10 seconds test.............. lol

[WOLVOSTONER]

lol. never get away with that nowadays....

funny as hell tho...

[vinfox100]

this is brilliant..... from an Irishman with a sense of irony (pity those who haven't)

[RooneyMufc10]

Haha Rays such a legend, he never stop going on about that goal though. :L

[seamusohea]

Great sketch very funny dont rem any1 gettin upset over it. I remember the day its one of my youngest memories

[fruitcake4t]

there's a little bit of the IRA in every irish catholic

[sec0ndevolution]

Phoenix from theeeee......flames, Phoenix......from the flames, Phoeeeeee......nix!

[Justdisco]

RAY HOUGHTON IS A SCOTSMAN.

[kilomeister]

@Justdisco what is a scotsman? the scots irish are shunning scotland in their droves. maybe houghton was ignored because of his irish catholic background, he certainly had the ability to represent his nation of birth. being irish and living in scotland is not a crime. that's why you lost mcgeady and mccarthy.

[morris850]

0:38 = Dylan Moran

[Primordialfan1]

This is great. I love that we Irish have a fecking sense of humour :p

[levisufc]

Jimmy Greaves, ha ha, not playing about

[doive1231]

Comments spoilt by swearing. Poor youtube is finished if they stop users from blocking swear words. Eejits. Boner. Ha ha.

[coyleciaran123]

Pat Boner - Amazing. 

[lostbhoy3]

anyone takes offence at that is a w*nker

[innit27]

pure class

[adds3566]

controversy with the terrorist but funny

[LeeSnowflake]

Excellent. We Irish are known for being able to laugh at ourselves, so I don't see what everyone was getting bent out of shape for. I remember seeing it on tv and I knew it would cause some controversy.

[RussWWFC]

The IRA thing cracked me up, shock value as much as anything

[Burncourtable]

The IRA guy is too much. The rest is great stuff

[dtrocks6]

ha ha,forgot this skit.absolutely favourite show on tv.where do i sign the petition to bring it back? soccer a.m. is the only thing to come close

[driller007]

the terrorist was a bit much but the rest was hilarious. the boner from brian moore was fucking gas

ive met ray a couple of times, nice guy but his wife is a bit of a cunt. she was incredibly rude when i met her one night and i ended up telling her to go fuck herself.

as an aside was that ireland kit not made by adidas at the time? umbro is on the one where they recreate the goal

[SharonAherne]

Ray houghton is a very funny nice man up for a laugh any time.. good on u ray.. u got paid for a job and scored v the english...

[SoiCowboy2]

Yeah I met Ray after a game at Stoke and great bloke. Was at this game as well

[mano8obe]

This was very funny, I'm surprised there are so many Irish getting angry over this video and being anti English, it's all harmless fun

They took the piss out of everything and anything, even the English national team and players, Graham Taylor, Greaves, Jason Lee got more stick than anyone

Don't confuse comedy with real life, fantasy football ruled

[0000brendan]

i agree. im irish. its a good laugh. nothing serious

[scannyb33]

love this proggrame

[MrDart]

AHAHAHAH classic

[strunway]

Please bring this show back

[DuncanMcA]

Phoenix From Theeeeeeeeee

Flames Phoenix From the Flames Phoeeeeeeeen

Ix From The Flames Phoenix Froooooooom

[gboots8]

briiliant absolute quality from irish g

[stilbuz]

houghton yeah fuck creatan

[damnedflanders]

bring back this show

[sully1865]

I'm Irish and i literally rolled around the floor laughing when i first saw that sketch on ITV. If you can't laugh at yourselves, then what can you do!

[craiclord]

That was fukin brilliant! The provo bit was class!! Sher its just a bit of craic, we put it up the english the whole time too, anyway didnt it come out recently that cascarino had no irish roots at all!!

[orient1961]

Houghton, a true gent, and great great player.

[northurler]

i cnt blieve people r tinkin bout makin a political argument out of comedy.fuck sake lads.its funni cos its the stereotype dat all irish h8 the english.get over it.should be laughed at by every1

[dylbollox]

fuckin hilarious vid. brilliant goal aswell, I remember it (just about). Lads the political past should be left where it was, and well out of sport.

[oco7]

i love the english pointing out that houghton isn't a born and bred paddy, england's cricket captain? you've got a big country with plenty of cricket players, where's your cricket captain from again?

[Ormond1]

He is of course Irish. An absolute legend. Go on Ireland.

[damodgc]

ray is one of d few boys who dont take irish pride so seriously. IRA wannabes, stop tryin to live out "the wind that shakes the barley" or "michael collins". us and the english get on well, get over it. ive a brother in law who is english, i love him. funniest fuck ive ever met. get on so well wit him. i hate d english 4 wat dey done in d 20s but wat can b dne. ur only lookin 4 sumtin 2 bitch about, god. I do love ireland like but c'mon. too far

[OasisDublin]

i agree with your sentiments but come on, ray houghton is hardly the poster child of irishness haha

[BennieAA]

haha thats awesome. jimmy greaves is funny as fuck

[rkennedy47]

i m irish and thought that was very funny. anyone on about racism and terrorism r just clueless bitter idiots whether they r irish or english. should nt be taken so seriously

[hazardundertaker666]

god all these people saying 'english scum' need to get a life

[themountjoy]

there are an estimated 30 billion Irish in the world and only 10 are original Irish persons

fuk sake you can drink a pint of guiness and claim to come from the worst country in the world

[dandadub]

your an idiot

[BigDoodie1]

Fenian C!UNT

[TheRealFatShiney]

you can c ray houghton isnt born in ireland cause 2 english cuntsmade a fool out of him ...

[TheRealFatShiney]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...chocolate....­..

[chalkey79]

My god you get some morons on this site. Well done Baddiel & Skinner, funny as ever.

[unothelaw]

cant wait to see an irish team in the champions league final next year

[OSLAINTE123]

Did anyone ask Baddiel which part of Jew land he comes from??,, bad fucking losers..

My fave ever football moment is him and Skinner as Andy Muller scores that penalty in Euro 96,, Happy days.. Any competition without the English scum is a good competion.

[STPATSCM92]

WHAT A GAME

ENGLISH CUNTS

UP DA RA

[velvitjester]

FFS,your an idiot.

[jimmyworkman]

houghton your my god. the best irish player for a decade. top pro. great lad. shove it up the english scum.

[abugerae]

What a goal!!! I wil remember it for the rest of my life!!! The English were sick hahaha!

[spiderman1885]

Being Irish I don't like it! The best bit about this video though is the fact that England were beaten by Ireland.

[boovidge]

it's quite ironic how they were teasing houghton for not being born in ireland and their irishness test was to sing a pogues song when shane macgowan is 2nd generation irish just like houghton!

[tdv123]

Ray Houghton must be in a bad way for a few quid.

[wellplayedboy]

Why?

[ledge888]

good old greavise

[locorojo25]

absolute quality. funny as fk. houghton is a top bloke.

[ShaneMullaney]

lol

[Doniedaff]

This clip is hilarious and not remotely offensive. I remember hearing the commotion afterwards and thinking people really need to get a life.

[zogabongs]

Ha ha ha English cunts. I thought pakis were supposed to be double hard terrorists not faggoty joke merchants like Baddiel.

[babyleigh16]

oooh how close to the mark was that?

[zzzrosss7]

great clip!should be taken in the spirit its made!+ that moment is the "highlight of many peoples lives"

[dermotmd]

I grew up in London and am as a republican as it comes and feel that the video is great and takes the piss out of the English, the victims to me were all english, bar Ray Houghton is up there for stuffing the part-time HUNS

[cloughers]

@dermotmd your a very sad guy. "i grew up in london" but you seem to hate enlgish people. jesus don't genralise a whole view of english plp just becuase you got bullied at school.

[electrosystem]

God I miss this show sooooooo much!!! fuckin class.ray houghton always up for a laugh unlike some of the whiny faggots on here.

[danoriordan77]

Get a grip, it does use every cliche going but it's all a bit of harmless banter and the goal will be remembered a lot longer than this sketch will be.

[Underclass82]

For the record, Unionist terrorists wore black balaclavas, Nationalist terrorists wore green balaclavas.

[sambomcl]

Tattie-tastic.

[stoneyhorsebox]

Didn't seem too funny to me Ray Houghton dressed like a spud and Irish People made out to be all balaclava wearin terosists. Grow up England! We won! You didn't! Get over it! Ya sad bastards!

[jpmc1968]

hey mate if you can't take piss out of yourselfs then there is something wrong. thats why english are eejits

[zxcgear]

The irony in complaining about generalising of Irish people as terrorists, then, in the same breath telling all English people to "grow up" is not lost on me.

Or do you think 45 million people were part of the Fantasy Football League production staff?

[blackmasiah]

It's just not funny in the slightest. You'd think if your going to go with the lowest common denominator (ie showing Houghton as a IRA gunman DURING the troubles - this was only a year after the Manchester bombings remember); if your going to be that offensive at the very least make it funny. It didn't even raise a smile. I'm less offended by the racism than the serious lack of humour in the whole thing. Skinner and Baddiel - what a pair of humourless fukwits

[itsallreal]

develop a sense of humour bud..we rip the piss out of the english 24/7 haha and a year after the manchester bombings? huh? didnt this air in 2004? the manchester bombings were in 1996..your fairly clueless.

[blackmasiah]

Sorry some idiot told me this was aired in 97. Should have checked my facts, but my point still stands, this is absolute kak. Since when did having a sense of humour involve laughing inanely at any old shit just because it's taking the piss out of he Irish? This is just LAME. The English equivalent would be having John Barnes on accusing him of not really being English and then showing him wearing a bowler hat and sipping a cup of tea with his pinky aloft. Lazy.

[blackmasiah]

On another note, respect to Ray Houghton, what a fantastic moment that goal was. That's my first football memory. As a Liverpool fan and an Irishman I demand a Ray Houghton public holiday on the 20th anniversery of that goal next year

[thebrettman1985]

So if the clip was funny, it wouldn't matter that it was offensive?

I see no reason for people being offended by a paramilitary in a balaclava. It's funny mainly because its intentionally not an accurate depiction of Irishness.

Your comparison John Barnes is poor as it misses the point that many Irish players of that era only played for Ireland by virtue of parentage. John Barnes was brought up in England.

[zogabongs]

Yeah but he's still a coon

[aghy12]

Classic stuff both the comedy and the magical goal we will never ever forget!!!!

[sully1865]

This is class, you just have to laugh at it! Its not racism, its just taking the mick (no pun intended)

[sargingbanana]

lol...feckers their just having a laugh

[kerrykop]

you cant beat a bit of racest horseplay

[runnerglass]

im irish and ithink this is gas its only a laugh for fuck sake

[ozza33]

lol at Paddy boner.

[LiamFP]

God I miss Fantasy Football League. That is a brilliant clip!

[freddyffc]

Quality Stuff!

[biggyshackleton]

had alot of respect for ray houghton until i seen that

[dubontour]

What?? Houghton will always be legend

[zogabongs]

hear hear

[ryanaugher]

"The next morning none of the experts gave us the slightest chance

They said the English team would lead us on a merry dance

With their Union Jacks all them English fans for victory they were set

Until Ray Houghton got the ball and he stuck it in the net!"

a couple of classic lines from christy moores song "joxer goes to stuttgart

[wiskers69]

Jesus they were the start of happy days.

[lyverbird]

Wow! Still pissed off after all this time then? Funny how you only hear comments like this from other teams and their supporters when they were beaten, or when they have little interest in the game!

[Zurzi]

Very good clip, who put the ball in the English net, we did! we did! up the Eire

[LanceringMachine]

not really. a scot did

[eslsys1]

yeah he was a Scot who scored a goal against a team containing a Jamaican, South African and a guy from Singapore, so your point is ....

[tufjhygvh]

HAHA BAD LOSER!!!!

Ireland beat London Fc when it mattered!!

Up The eire from Lpool!