I remember Markus Merk as the hapless UEFA official who came under fire from the even more hapless Graham Taylor during *that game* against Holland.
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Originally posted by rodo View Post
I think that was to the linesman. Merk was the UEFA official (didn't have fourth officials then, I don't think) who kept telling Taylor off for being outside of his technical area.
Did Taylor not like that.
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yeah youre right merk was the guy in the tracksuit who shrugged his shoulders when taylor was ranting about koeman not being sent off i loved that doc
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Originally posted by rodo View Post
One of my favourite documentaries of all-time. Phil Neal came out of it worse than Taylor, IMO. To call him a 'yes man' wouldn't even get close.
Des Walker knocks a misplaced pass to John Barnes:
Taylor: "Ooooh, ****ing... Do I not like that!"
Poland win the ball, break downfield and score.
Taylor: "What a ****ing ball. What a ball, eh, from Des to Barnesy. What a ****ing... It was our possession."
Phil Neal: "I know."
Taylor: "It was from our free kick. We've come square, and the ball... Des and Barnesy, eh? ****ing ball, eh? You can talk till you're ****ing blue in the face, can't you?"
Phil Neal: "Yes boss."
The game kicks off again:
Taylor : "Come on. Bigger, bigger."
Another misplaced pass.
Taylor : "We've done that ****ing... CAN WE NOT KNOCK IT? They've done everything that we told them not to do. Everything that we told them not to do."
And the full misery of the Dutch denouement was compelling, if heartbreaking, viewing:
Taylor: "Linesman, linesman, what sort of thing is happening here? You know it, you know it, don’t you? Absolutely disgraceful."
Linesman mutters something.
Taylor: "Linesman, linesman, that’s disgrace… Hells Bells!"
Koeman hasn’t even scored the free kick yet. In the gantry, Brian Moore is first to cotton on to what’s about to happen.
"He’s going to flip one. He’s going to flip one. HE’S GOING TO FLIP ONE."
Koeman scores.
Taylor: "I’ll tell you, they don’t ****ing deserve." "****ing! That is absolutely shocking."
Businesslike for a moment.
Taylor: "We’ll have to get Wrighty on shortly."
Phil Neal: "We’ll have to give Wrighty a go."
Taylor turns his attention once more to the beleaguered linesman.
"You know we’ve been cheated, don’t you."
Linesman motions him back to his technical area.
"I have a metre. I have a metre. You know. It’s alright."
Linesman is getting fed up. Goes to report Taylor, who pleads for mercy.
"I won’t say anything else. Come on, don’t. But I’m allowed to stay in the metre."
Linesman lets him off with a warning. However, the peace bond is soon broken:
"Even if he doesn’t see it as a penalty, he has to go. You know that. I know you know it, so… And then the fella scores the free kick."
A sudden outbreak of bonhomie from Taylor:
"You can’t say anything. I know you can’t say anything. I know that."
Again it’s short-lived:
"But, you see at the end of the day, I get the sack. Will you say to the fella, the referee has got me the sack."
"Thank him ever so much for that, won’t you?"
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remember him giving some journo loads in a press conference in it superb stuff funny how now he is actually one of the best pundits on the radioOh I say his vision there was lovelyComment
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"can we not knock it?"
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need to hunt down the full thing nowOh I say his vision there was lovelyComment
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Originally posted by rodo View Post
I've got it on VHS somewhere but I don't have a video anymore, so I'd like a "digickle" version too.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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just found it on ebay only a quid or 2 will probably get it and then get it converted to dvd will let you know how i get on mateOh I say his vision there was lovelyComment
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