Al Murray, The Pub Landlord - It Was Our Idea 2010

[93Keogh]

I wish I'd seen this at the time, this is so well said

[rssfeedslive]

lmao

[SissyLady4]

Scoccer

[drunkest100]

@SissyLady4 spell it right for fucks sake!

[DTChapman1]

Ever thought we loose and why footballers are paid so much. They are paid so much to loose on purpose. Because if we didn't let them win then they wouldn't want to play.

[tehevilchickensbro]

Al Murray Should Be The Prime Minister

[LordMcManus]

7 people didnt think it up

[AoSBailey]

football was made in sheffield,yorkshire... the rightfull place of football

[martinis9678]

@arsenaljsutliffuk I guess so, im talking about 16th century here, you're talking way later :D

[bentstua]

did it get in the charts

[thearsenalforever1]

yeah who really gives a shit how crap we are??? ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT WE INVENTED IT!!! :D

[codownni]

God save the Queen

Vote UKIP

[bobby4441]

Now nigel, let's make room for... ANOTHER FUCKIN ADVERT!!!

[jasonjozzy1]

It's a bloody song for Christ sakes...

[martinis9678]

Football mightve been Englands idea, but in the early state, it was played with around 20-50 people per team, you could use weapons (no blades) to hit your opponents and even knock them out, the pitch was usually around 2 miles, and if it wasn't for other countries pitching in and making their changes, football would be nothing like it is today!

[cizzad95]

@martinis9678 But that sounds more fun ;)

[Satonamill]

@cizzad95 Hear hear!

[lukementessi]

@martinis9678

No change there then :P

well... less people and smaller pitch hehe

[Camberwell86]

@martinis9678 20 to 50 players on a team (with weapons) and a pitch two miles long? You're talking shit, boss. My mate Dave once took it through all 49 blokes and hit a screamer from 1½ miles into the top corner. Keeper had no chance, he only had 50 seconds to see it coming. *Red card* (half a mile walk off the pitch) brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "offside by a mile." ^_^

[martinis9678]

@Camberwell86 you're right, i was a bit wrong. not about the pitches, but about the number, and about the teams. Let me put some quotes in:

''Football in Tudor times was a very vicious game, with no teams and no rules, so it was not a game for gentlemen''

''it was a game of beastly fury and extreme violence''

and yes, weapons were allowed, nothing sharp or deadly though. So before you say I'm talking shit :)

It was so violent, King Henry VIII wanted to ban it.

[martinis9678]

@Camberwell86 and yeah, i guess it does put a whole new meaning to the phrase ;)

[drunkest100]

@martinis9678 Thats not correct, the essential laws of football were laid down long before the sport left these shores.

[martinis9678]

@drunkest100 you mean came to these shores? look it up. the chinese played a ball game EXTREMELY similar to football as far back as 3000 years ago. The reason football is often mistaken as originating in england was because it was in england 1863 that the football association was founded.

[drunkest100]

@martinis9678 Did they have an offside rule?

[hutchy1k94]

@martinis9678

Similar and the same are 2 completely different things...

[TheSirRoberto]

@martinis9678 we played football in the 1100s :)

[vickijl]

@martinis9678 historians also found football used to be played in medieval times with mile long pitches with the generally poor people would play it in their villages.

[GanzZulu]

@martinis9678 it was a bit similar, yes. but it was not football. and besides, the original game of football was played by the celtics of these isles thousands of years ago, but it had eveolved since then.

[sc4rzpur3]

"the dutch'll knock you flat" i think al murrays a mind reader because the dutch kung-fu kicked the spaniards in the heart :D

[celeareth]

Brilliant! Just what we need after the humiliation!

[mrmercuryisgod]

Awesome song. Al Murray is a genius. Can't wait to see him live later this year.

[camel595]

english people r ugly

[AscendantShade]

@camel595 everyoneelse looks ugly to us

[drunkest100]

@camel595 At least we're not gypo looking cunts (like you)

[heatty2008]

Love this. :)

[SozzledTerror]

Nope. It was Jules Rimet's.

[DonBurroni]

LOVE it Get in England!!

Fabio Bought Wayne Rooney and all the boys iPhone 4's

[EddyMcK]

Your face when America was competing in the world cup before england

[HarvsPenzance]

England Football Anthem? It should be the English National Anthem. Better than the dirge we have at present

[SamiiJane]

Genius!

[twilightnotthebook]

if we didnt let them win once in a while they wouldnt want to play

LOL

[LeeUnited4eva]

Legend!

[repol1975]

Well played...Well Played

[OmegaRFox]

What was the lyric after But if we go home and we know we've done our bit...

[insideoutface]

Al Murray is not funny.

[GarethGazzGravey1]

As much as i love Wavin' Flag, this should've been the anthem for this years World Cup.

[ilsonowl]

if we didn't let them win now and then they wouldn't want to play ... look at baseball and basketball ... let us win now and then USA and we might want to play ...

[liebowski]

Al Murray, funny guy. England football team, nearly as funny. It's great watching them do predictably poorly playing SHIT football every tournament they qualify for. They've been bloody awful in South Africa. C'mon Slovenia, do football a favour

[DalekSec1977]

@liebowski guess England showed you

[liebowski]

@DalekSec1977 yeah. a dull 1-0 against the mighty Slovenia, running the clock down at the corner flag with 5 minutes to go. They showed me they ain't going far

[DalekSec1977]

@liebowski im not gonna bother arguing with someone whos team didnt even make it to the tournament, if you want to slag England off thats fine but that last game wasnt dull

[liebowski]

@DalekSec1977 Yeah, fair enough, tho I do qualify for Spain under the parentage rule. I have no problem with English people, or players on the English team (except John Terry, what a cock). But when the English media (as always) set up an ordinary Ingerland team as world beaters, it's great to see them inevitably fail

[xmintyx13]

@liebowski So are you trying to say that nearly every other national media in the world isn't doing the same for their own football teams? Give me a break.

[liebowski]

@xmintyx13 Guten nacht

[TommyBellingham]

Not funny

[tutfut]

this shud be our footey anthem

[hutchy1k94]

@SamSlater

Al Murray - Is a character. This is an ACT. =P

[Bloodlustian]

Simply amazing! Pretty much summed up my locals chatter

[letswatchstuff2009]

This should be our world cup anthem!!

[MakeLAUGHnotWAR]

Awesome

5*

[SgtPenguinboyx]

that was class.

[KingJoeMayle]

Thumbs up for al murray as England manager -bow-

[himynamesryan]

Fantastic. Was in the first row last year.

[bluestrat88]

LOL! dont you just love Al Murray