May 4, 2006
Boris vs Germany
Last night, Five showed a football match commemorating the 40th anniversary of England’s victory over Germany in the 1966 World Cup final (yes, it’s sad, but at least it was for a good cause - the Bobby Moore Fund bowel cancer charity and the Red Cross.) The two teams were made up of a mixture of ex-players and celebrities but England had a rather surprising secret weapon - Boris Johnson, Tory MP for Henley-on-Thames!
Note, the piece of action shown here contains scenes that lovers of pure football may find highly disturbing:
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA
Seriously, anyone that’s played in any so-called ‘friendly’ kick-abouts can relate to this (he says from personal experience of being on the end of a fair few ’slightly clumsy’ challenges!!)
NOTE FOR WEB STANDARDS FOLKS: This video from YouTube makes the HTML on this page invalid - I hope that you can forgive me just this once!! :)
