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''Soccer AM'' is a British Saturday-morning Football show presented by Helen Chamberlain and Andy Goldstein . It has been broadcast on Sky Sports 1 every Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to noon, throughout the English football season, since 1995. It was also Simulcast on Sky One from March through to May 2007 - possibly to grab the attention of non-subscribers to the Sky Sports service. 2007 as Andy Goldstein {Link without Title} . The success of Soccer AM has come from an eclectic mix of football, comedy and entertainment every week, and has seen its influence spread well beyond the world of football. Parts of the show have remained since the beginning, whilst new items have been introduced each season. In that respect, it is almost the same every week, the difference being new football footage and comedy skits. Every week sees a new group of celebrity guests, generally featuring at least one footballer who is free on the Saturday, and a mix of musicians, TV personalities and other sportsmen. SPIN-OFFS In 2002, Soccer AM's All-Sports Show was launched for Friday nights, an hour-long show catering for a broader range of sports. Lovejoy and Chamberlain hosted the show initially until 2004 when Andy Goldstein replaced Lovejoy - just as he did three years later on Soccer AM itself. The close of the 2005-06 season marked the completion of ten seasons of Soccer AM, and also heralded the beginning of its own spin-off - Cricket AM . STUDIO FEATURES List of Crew Members & Jobs/Characters:
Former Crew Members who left along with Tim Lovejoy
Fans of the Week fans in the ''" Luther Blissett stand"'']] The ''"Fans of the Week"'' feature has been a mainstay - where eight fans of a British football club come in as studio guests every week, seated in the ''" Luther Blisset Stand"''. They are featured in various aspects of the show, culminating in a team footballing challenge at the end of the programme. Helen Chamberlain also interviews the fans and asks them to sing a song and asks a few other questions. There is also a video made about the supporters team with sheephead doing the voiceover. The video always begins with Sheephead saying "''supporters team'' are the greatest team in the world" and then will start talking about the teams history and players to prove this. The video is then ended by Sheephead saying "If only we were all ''supporters team'' fans." The challenge, which takes place outside in the '' Frank McAvennie Car Park'' (accessed by passing through '' Jimmy Bullard 's Back Door''), involves the fans attempting to kick a football through a hole as many times a possible within the time limit. The challenge has been renamed almost every season, along with the props and background music for the feature. The other studio guests all have the opportunity to attempt to score as well. Its various guises through the years include:-
"Can he kick it?" Should one of the studio guests include a retired footballer, it is customary for them to take a penalty in the car park. Up until the 2005/2006 season this would be taken against goalkeeper "Gianluigi Bouffant" (a Parody on Juventus 'keeper Gianluigi Buffon played by John Dyson), however at the start of the 2006/2007 he has been replaced with the first keeper who is not a comedy character ("Not intentionally anyway", Lovejoy stated in the introduction), crew member Robbie Knox, who keeps for his local Sunday league side "Dynamo Ealing". Prior to "Bouffant", penalties were taken against "Oliver Kahn't" (a Parody of Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn ). "Referee Gallagher", (a parody on former Premiership -referee Dermot Gallagher dressed like Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher welcomes viewers "outside to the sunshiiiinnnnneeee", tells a gag about the player before they get ready for the penalty. Other referees have included, "Hugh Dallas" (a cowboy and a parody on Scottish referee Hugh Dallas ) and "Paul Guerkin" who used a penny whistle (a parody on referee Paul Durkin ). Soccerette , the first celebrity Soccerette, catwalking with Tim]] The Soccer AM '' Soccerette '' has been a feature of the show for several years, and is, effectively, a woman - generally young and attractive - modelling the female version of the Soccer AM "Show Them The Whole Thing" t-shirt. Viewers can win the t-shirt by guessing the number of goals scored by the ''Fans of the Week'' in '' The Road To Wembley ''. The Soccerette is introduced by Tim and a chant of ''"bada bada bada bada BING!"'', and is asked a series of (usually loaded) questions that almost inevitably lead into pre-prepared gags. The standard question of marital status will result in rampant cheers in "single", and boos if "married" (although the latter is fairly rare). The former will produce the question ''"Do you have a boyfriend"'', to which the same answers apply. If the answer to either question is "Yes", Tim asks for how long. Regardless of the answer, it is declared ''"It'll never last!"''. The "Yes" or "No" is often now cheered or booed by video clips of real footballers or celebrities cheering or booing. The Soccerette is asked to Catwalk firstly with Tim and then with Tim and her choice of one of the ''Fans of the Week''. The Catwalk is performed to Mr. Big Stuff by Jean Knight . Stranger on the Sofa Immediately after the 2nd advert-break in the show at 9:40 am, Tim and Helen are joined on the famous "orange sofa" by a member of the general public - a feature known as ''"Stranger on the Sofa"''. A brief description of the stranger is given, covering areas such as job, pastimes, personality, marital status and football team. Gags are usually placed wherever possible. Recent times have seen an increased number of strangers who have indirectly achieved mild fame through antics in Third Eyes or mobile-camera clips. Strangers have included Chris McClure (better known as the face on the cover sleeve of Arctic Monkeys ' record-breaking debut album '' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not ''). In 2006, former member of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and Magazine Barry Adamson released an album entitled Stranger On The Sofa on his own Central Control company label. Adamson is a keen football/soccer fan and has achieved great critical success with the release. FOOTBALLING FEATURES Nutmeg Files A nutmeg is the term applied when a player plays the ball between his opponent's legs and regains control of the ball after going round him. Another ever-present feature of the show, the weekly edition of ''"The Nutmeg Files"'' shows a clip from the previous week's football matches of a player being nutmegged, while the "nutmegger" is superimposed shouting "NUTS!" ("Tunnel" (Italy) and "Petit Pont" (France), depending on which country the "nutmegger" is from). This feature is (very loosely) based on '' The Rockford Files ''. Third Eye ''Third Eye'' has been a feature of the show from its outset, and involves viewers sending in often-comical mishaps from the television (generally football matches) that may well have been missed by the majority of the viewing audience. These typically involve people falling over or being caught doing something stupid. A classic was a Mancunian woman trying to take pictures on her camera, realising half an hour later that the lens cap was on, or a Grimsby ball-boy calmly heading the ball back into play whilst slouched on his seat (the boy later appeared as a 'Stranger On The Sofa'), or one where, during a match, Liverpool 's John Arne Riise fell victim to the schoolboy empty chewing gum Prank whilst sitting on the subs bench. Jimmy Bullard has also made a few choice appearances in this feature, especially his goal mouth leapfrog incident. Taxi The feature Taxi!, accompanied by the theme tune of The US Sitcom , consists of yet more clips from the previous week's live football. The clips chosen are typically embarrassing displays of showboating gone wrong. The embarrassed player's name is then suffixed to the voice-over phrase "TAXI FOR...". Concluding with the quote "''Taxi is filmed in front of a live stadium audience.''" Recent seasons have seen Tim and Helen highlight several embarrassing moments from the previous week's football, the worst is coming last and introduced, as always: Tim: "It's time for a trip to ''(stadium)''". Helen: "Taxi for ''(name)''!" Extras from Platoon This Tongue-in-cheek segment on the show mocks the over-acting of players when they are fouled in football matches the week prior to the show. It is accompanied by music from the 1986 movie ''Platoon'' , ( Samuel Barber's '' Adagio For Strings '') and shows players flying through the air while grimacing after receiving a "vicious" tackle, and are shown in Slow Motion . Many of the players look as though that have been shot - a notable element of the film that resulted in the ironic comparison. Team Mates Team Mates is the section at the end of the show where a player from a football team, is given questions, which they respond by telling which team mate, is more related to the question. The questions are as followed:
The Crossbar Challenge ''"The Crossbar Challenge"'' is a relatively new feature to the show, and involves a weekly trip to the training ground of a British league football team. The entire squad, including willing coaching staff and managers, are filmed, one-by-one, introducing themselves and attempting to hit the crossbar of the Goal from the halfway line. The feat is rarely accomplished - the majority of squads fail to hit the bar once. However, a successful strike generally provokes manic celebrations by the kicker and his teammates. Normally, the background music is the instrumental "Seventeen Years" by Ratatat but has been changed recently to "Smiling" by The Beta Band . The current record is held by Northampton Town and Hereford United who both hit the crossbar 3 times. Soccer AM aim to, at some point, visit every team in the league, although this is likely to prove very difficult as clubs such as Manchester United are unwilling to allow players onto shows such as these. However, other clubs like Chelsea have appeared in the past. Players who appear as guests on "The Orange Sofa" are always shown their attempt at the challenge if it is one of the many on the database. My Favourite Goal A famous footballer is asked to name his 5 favourite goals throughout his career so far, and the choices are played (in reverse order) at various stages throughout the show. Notable appearances have included Wayne Rooney , David Beckham and Ryan Giggs . Ruud Van Nistelrooy in this section was only asked to pick his top three favourite goals for Manchester United . The song used during the older version of my favourite goal is ''" Strange And Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You) "'' by Aqualung . The Things I Know About Football The show asks players and managers alike what they know about the beautiful game, when footballers or any prominent celebrity talk about what they know about football. An example when a non footballer appeared on this segment, was when British Prime Minister , Raith Rovers fan and then Chancellor Of The Exchequer , Gordon Brown appeared and famously quoted: ''"I know that lots of cabinet ministers are interested in football and watch matches. If I had the choice between a football match and a cabinet meeting, I would choose a football match."'' Terry V. Terry Shield Introduced during the 2004/05 season, "the most important goals competition in football" as Soccer AM like to put it, focuses on the goalscoring form of Chelsea and England captain John Terry and his older brother, Paul , currently playing for Yeovil Town. The winner would be the player who scored the most goals during the season and would be awarded with the "Terry V. Terry Shield". So far, John has won the contest both times it has been presented. On 26 August , 2006 Soccer AM pondered whether goals scored in international friendlies should count towards the total of goals counted for that player in the goal chase. This came after John scored against Greece the previous Wednesday on his debut as captain. The debate went as far as asking FIFA what they should do, but they ended up being confused about all of this. So Helen had the last say and said that goals scored in international friendlies don't count. During the 2005/06 season a similar competition was invented: Ferdinand V. Ferdinand between Manchester United 's Rio Ferdinand and his little brother Anton Ferdinand of West Ham United . Rio won the inaugural competition. Golden Shoe/Espadrille Soccer AM's own goalscoring competition, the ''"Golden Shoe"'' is the show's light tug on the Golden Boot award given to the top scorer in a league or competition. This competition is based on a goals-to-game ratio. Only league goals count and a player has to have played in at least half of their team's league games to be in with a chance of winning the shoe. The Golden Shoe is open to every player in the FA Premier League and the Football League . The ''"Golden Espadrille "'' is the European equilivalent to the Golden Shoe. The same rules apply, and the only real difference is that it is open to the English FA Premier League , Spanish La Liga and Italian Serie A players. Scunthorpe 's Billy Sharp is the new current holder of the ''"Golden Shoe"'', with the ''"Golden Espadrille "'' still to be awarded at the end of the current season. 100 Greatest Goals The 100 Greatest Goals from the Games that Nobody Remembers except our Panel of Talking Heads was introduced in 2006/7 as a sarcastic take off of the many "100 best..." countdown shows on TV. A piece of unremarkable football action is used, typically a scrappy goal from a lower division game in the 1990s, which is analysed in the same way as these shows tend to do, with the action interspersed with different experts views of it. Jamie Redknapp , Chris Kamara , Jeff Stelling and Matt Le Tissier are a few of the people who enthusiastically talk about the goal as if it were the most amazing goal ever scored. I Want to Be Like Bas After seeing the on-pitch antics of Brighton & Hove Albion player Bas Savage , namely his Moonwalk celebrations after scoring a goal, a featurette called ''"I Want to Be Like Bas"'' was introduced in the 2006/7 season. If Savage scores in a game previous to the showing of Soccer AM, his goal and celebration is shown to the music of Michael Jackson 's " Smooth Criminal ", as the video also features moonwalking. Boston Goals Short Highlights feature, where all of the goals and major incidents from matches involving Boston United FC, 'the only American team in the league', are shown with commentary and punditry provided by Mike Schweinstegier and Randy Wakemen III, played by members of the Soccer AM team. The show is a spoof on American sports programmes, commentators and presenters. The commentary includes many stereotypical 'Americanisms', where words in regular use in British commentary are replaced, with an American equivalent. For example 'Penalty Kick' is referred to as a 'P.K.', and League Two is referred to as the 'Two League Ladder'. Sadly, Boston were relegated from League 2 at the end of the 2006/2007 football season and so Boston Goals was dropped. COMEDY FEATURES One of the strengths of Soccer AM is its talented crew members. Throughout the show's history, its various producers and researchers have contributed to comedy skits, playing various characters. The level of talent varies, but they are all excellent sports and likeable performers. The show's humour is generally of the corny, old-fashioned variety, but no less hilarious for that. Current performing crew members include "Fenners" (John Fendley), "Sheephead" (Joe Worsley), "Tubes" (Peter Dale), "Rocket" (James Long), Neil (Smythe), Robbie Knox (TRAMP! is sung every time he is mentioned to the tune of ''The Champ'' by The Mohawks ), Jon Dyson, Chris Nutbeam and newest member Steve Sutcliffe. Big Stan Hibbert Another popular feature of the show - Big Stan Hibbert was ''"Here All Week"''. Hibbert - a northern, working-men's club style comedian, played by Fenners, appearanced early in the show with his standard one quarter full mug of beer, and cracked a joke to rampant cheers (and jeers). After his joke, he declared ''"I'M HERE ALL WEEK!"'' before preceding to spin around on the spot at high speed with his beer mug held out wide, and when nothing spills (not a given) stated ''" CENTRIFUGAL FORCE !"''. Following Fenners departure from the show in 2007, the week's joke is now provided by former Northern Ireland, Manchester United and Everton player, Norman Whiteside - who is filmed in a pre-recorded Sketch . Topless Weather Soccer AM's response to European television's more lewd feature of the same name. Celebrated Bolton Wanderers fan and crew member ''Sheephead'' gives his "weather forecast" for Britain without wearing a shirt. A popular member of the crew, he has recently taken to including gags in his forecast. Since the advent of Topless Weather, Southern England has yet to be forecast anything but "Light drizzle". This part of the show is always introduced with a "sponsorship" message - ''"Topless Weather, in association with " Gravy ". Oooh, Northern boys love '''"Gravy"'''.'' The background video of Gravy being poured onto a plate of Chips is a mimic of the television advertising employed by Bisto , where gravy is poured onto a Traditional Sunday Lunch with the voice-over ''"Ahh, Bisto"''. Sheephead finished Topless Weather every week with ''"keep smiling, back inside to Mr. and Mrs. Lovejoy"'', upon which the sponsorship message is repeated, albeit with gravy now over-flowing from the plate. Due to popular request, from the 2006-07 season, Sheephead also delivers the weather for Ireland, and adds a new running joke. When forecasting, he points at Ireland, and says "Oh my god, it's Kilkenny" in refence to the Irish county of Kilkenny and a play on the South Park running joke, said in every episode when Kenny is killed. However, Sheephead transferred to David Beckham's Soccer USA so topless weather has been dropped. Yorkshire News Allegedly separate from the show itself, Tim announces that ''"It's time for the news from your region."'' Regardless where you are (or so it seems), ''"Yorkshire News"'' appears on the screen, Anchored by "Yorkshireman" Geoffrey Trueman (Dyson). This name is taken from the names of legendary Yorkshire cricketers Geoffrey Boycott and Fred Trueman . Recently, however, the 'regional' news was styled from Manchester. The headline story involves ''"yet another example that '''change is not good'''.'' The concept of change is almost certainly a gag at Political Correctness , and is usually blamed on ''"those rich London -types"'' from the South. "Change" has come in the form of female employment, foreign cuisine, men dancing, and non-beer beverages, amongst others. A highlight of this feature was when a reporter went to Blackpool to question whether Bradford City FC striker Dean Windass had 'lost his bottle' after a poor run of performances- an 'irate' Windass charged at the reporter, tearing his own shirt off in the process. Another famous moment occurred when the topic of YouTube was mentioned. Ending the news with ''"S'thee later"'', Soccer AM reappears with Helen saying ''"Welcome back to Soccer AM!"'' On the 3 February , 2007 edition of the show Yorkshire News was replaced by ''"Manchester News"'' with the people of Manchester being asked what they thought of the new Supercasino being built there. This led to an apology by Tim as apparently the Yorkshire region got the wrong regional news. Tubes Crew member "Tubes" ( Peter Dale ) has had a regular feature on the show in recent seasons, where he has ''"one question and one question only"'' to one of the studio guests. Tim asks ''"Who is your question for this week"'', and the answer results in a dimming of the studio lights and a spotlight on the questionee. Tubes' popularity has grown significantly - a public vote saw him being voted more popular than (crew member) Rocket - in part due to his woeful (but comic) Rapping ability which he demonstrates every week before actually posing a question. Due to his weekly Binge Drinking exploits, Tim Lovejoy has called for Pub landlords across the country to ban Tubes from their establishments for his own good. Tubes' rapping has also been used in a parody of ITunes , where at the end instead of saying "iTunes", it says "iTubes". A VHS video from 2000 was recently broadcast showing Tubes, dressed as a sailor, dancing on stage to the YMCA Song . The Dance-Off Each year, the Soccer AM Dance-Off is held which is a dancing competition usually involving all crew members. The crew have 15 seconds each to dance before the next contestant goes on, and each dance usually receives good natured laughing and booing from the audience & Tim and Helen . It is usually held on the first Saturday in January of each year, and viewers at home are encouraged to vote for who they thought was the best by texting in. However, they can also vote for "Don't care". The 2007 Dance-Off winner was Rocket, the 3rd time he has won the competition. Soccer AM Dance-Off Roll Of Honour:
Barry Soccer AM's own little sitcom stars Barry Proudfoot (actually Fenners ) ''as'' '''Barry''', '''Pugsy''' ''as'' '''Pugsy''', and '''Vikki''' ''as'' '''Vikki The Barmaid'''. Set at ''The Wheatsheaf'' pub in Perivale , Barry is dressed in green tracksuits and aviator sunglasses, and is known for his hatred of Northerners , and catchphrases ''"Oooh that's a right touch!"'' and ''"He's taking some right liberties"''. Some famous faces have appeared on this section of the show as well, including Tim , actor Tamer Hassan , West Ham fan Perry Fenwick ( Billy Mitchell from Eastenders ) and the band, The Rifles . "Two-Hits" and "Bob the Glare" have also appeared on a few occasions as "bouncers" and in one episode brought out their own DVD. Barry also appeared in a Patrick McGuinness stand up. McGuiness asked Barry to come on stage and tell a few jokes to his audience, composed mostly of ''" Northerners "''. Instead of telling "tasteful" jokes to the audience, Barry started telling jokes that would be offensive to "'' Northerners ''" and got booed off-stage. Recently Barry has been on a Soccer AM edition of Partner Swap, (take of Wife Swap), where he was partnered up with Theresa O'Sullivan. After constantly making jokes about Teresa being Mother Theresa, Theresa confronted him, pleading him that there be no more of those jokes. Having been asked this, Barry said there would be none - (nun). That is a right touch. The "Love it" song A cameraman and a man with a microphone went round asking pretend cockneys, who were actually acted by crew members about the TV soap Eastenders. At the end they would say "We larve it, larve it, larve it, larve it, larve it." It was eventually released before the World Cup 2006 as a song by the Soccer AM crew and rap artist MC Neat, with all proceeds going to Bernardo's Children's Charity. Obviously, the song was edited as it focused on the England football team, rather than Eastenders. CCTV Coventry City TV is inspired by the television channels of several of the larger clubs in British football. Set in the 1986/87 season, the fictitious channel brings us features which resemble ''Closed-Circuit TeleVision'' of funny and unusual behaviour. Usual topics of conversation include whether Keith Houchen should be selected by boss John Sillett, and that the club should never leave Highfield Road (which has of course happened with the move to the Ricoh Arena) The channel is presented by Paul Gardner (Fenners) and Brian Kildare (Sheephead). The two presenters also ask every guest whether they have a 'genuine Coventry accent'. They also refer to a Brummie Accent as a "Cod Birmingham" Accent . Dragons' Den Introduced in the 2006-2007 season Soccer AM have done their version of the BBC Two programme Dragons' Den . Basically every week Sheephead shows the Dragons an invention which already exists. For example, he recently showed them crisps where you put the salt on them yourself although this Already Had Been Done . One of the Dragons tells him "It's already been done"; he then responds by saying "Oh has it! Oh, I'll be back. You'll see!" This too has been dropped following Sheepheads departure. Book Reconstructions When a guest(s) or someone they talk to on the phone has written a book, Tim Lovejoy will announce, "I can't read very well, and neither can Helen or any of the crew, but Neil's a good reader, so we had him reconstruct the best bits", which Neil duly does, often exaggerating for comic effect. So far he has reconstructed scenes from the books written by footballer John Hartson , millionaire businessman and TV personality Duncan Bannatyne and Natalie Appleton and Nicole Appleton , ex- Liverpool and Real Madrid star Steve McManaman and horse racing jockey Frankie Dettori to hilarious consequences. OTHER FEATURES Soccer AM Webcam A new addition to the show, introduced in the start of the 10th season, is the Soccer AM Webcam . Refreshing every 5 seconds, it gave viewers the opportunity to view a live feed from the Soccer AM Office. Due to popular demand, it was later upgraded to refreshing every ''3 seconds''. The Webcam soon gained its own feature on the show - a Soap picking out the best behind-the-scenes moments from the office, and concluding with a cliffhanger of a will he-won't he. The webcam broke in between seasons in the summer of 2006, but at the start of the following season the team announced that a new webcam had been installed with improved pictures as well as the ability for the team to zoom in on certain aspects of the office. The Ten-Yard Bucket Challenge Borne out of the link between professional footballers and golf, ''"The Ten-Yard Bucket Challenge"'' sees a professional footballer attempting to chip a golf ball into a bucket from a distance of ten yards. The football-golf link exists due mainly to the amount of free time footballers are allowed in the daytime after training sessions, and Soccer AM's homage to golf involves a single personality from the world of football who attempts the challenge. One notable attempt was from Ryan Taylor , then of Tranmere Rovers , now of Wigan Athletic , who was not featuring in the challenge that week, but was accompanying team-mate Jason McAteer . While cameras happened to be rolling, he had a go and accomplished the feat in a single attempt (Taylor is also one of an elite few to hit the crossbar in the "Crossbar Challenge", and reportedly hit it in his practice attempt as well). Many over-confident amateurs have been known to run tallies of well over a hundred attempts. The background music to the challenge is Ladyflash by The Go! Team . CLUB AND PLAYER SPECIFIC
"SHOW THEM THE WHOLE THING" The part of the show, shown every week, where a member of the fans in the "Luther Blisset" stand do body-building poses, and clips are sent in and shown of the public "showing them the whole thing" to the background music of Oxygene 4 by Jean Michel Jarre . The sketch apes certain well-known scenes from the 1970s bodybuilding Documentary Film '' Pumping Iron '' in which Arnold Schwarzenegger taunts Lou Ferrigno and mentors other gym users in poses. ACHIEVEMENTS As its audience share grew, its influence grew in turn. Some of the show's notable influences have included:
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Another memorable aspect to the show was in 2000 when Tim started to tell the same gag every week. The gag revolved around and Andy Gray to do the gag during a live game. Another recurring gag is when someone with the surname "O'Leary" or "Riley" is involved. For example, Helen once announced that Dermot O'Leary was on the current show and would be talking about his role as Big Brother's Big Mouth presenter. Tim then asks "Oh really?", to which Helen reluctantly replies "... no, O'Leary". This is clearly a pre-determined gag judging by Tim's reaction which gains much laughter when done. Lovejoy actually had a few ongoing gags back in the day including famous one liners as "Is it a record?" "Oi fish head!" "Double sweet double douvet!" FOOTBALL LEAGUE TROPHY PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT For the past few seasons, Soccer AM has had the privilege of being able to draw fixtures for each round of the Football League Trophy (until recently known as the ''LDV Vans Trophy'', it is now called the ''Johnstone's Paint Trophy''). This is normally done - in the style of British gameshow Play Your Cards Right - by Tim & Helen cutting oversized cards onto large holders, and turning them over one at a time to generate football matches, with Tim normally drawing the Home teams first, and Helen drawing the Away sides. This process is overseen by an independent adjudicator from the FA (Up until the end of last season, this was a man called Ian Christian, who would often have the ''Hallelujah'' music himself out of humour.) The fans of the week are usually from a club that is in the draw, and if Tim draws that team he will proceed to dive into the fans. As of today, the cards have only been dropped on the floor once, for which Tim was responsible. Thankfully, this happened before any matches were drawn properly. Strangely, before the quarter final draw, Peterborough United fans were asked who they would least like to draw, to which they replied Bristol Rovers . The resulting draw then gave them an away game against... Bristol Rovers, which made the Peterborough fans boo Tim and Helen for their poor fixture making skills. DVDS & MUSIC In November 2004, Soccer AM released a DVD , which became a success, mostly down to being the ideal Christmas gift for men. Since this date, more DVDs have been released. The 2005 edition self titled, Soccer AM II included the 10 greatest players of the last decade, which included David Beckham , Ronaldinho and Alan Shearer . In June 2006, Soccer AM went Music al by releasing a CD with music they use on the show with such bands as Hard-Fi , The Automatic and The Ordinary Boys . Later that year another DVD was released titled, Soccer AM III- the greatest matches of all time including the 1982 World Cup Game, 1979-1981 and 2006 F.A Cup Finals. Also included is some extras. SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS Official: Unofficial: References: |
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