from mondays guardian after the stunning england match in tel aviv
"England's footballers might have failed to deliver in Tel Aviv but A Question Of Sport: Uncensored certainly lived up to its billing. This is a family newspaper, so some details must remain necessarily vague, but there was certainly enough to have the blue-rinse brigade of Mediawatch UK - formerly Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association - muttering into their bottles of green Quink.
Initially it looked like car-crash TV. When Sue Barker asked a question about Amanda Beard, Ally McCoist spent at least 30 seconds coming up with the sizzler that was "Was her middle name 'Show Us Your'?" There were also endless knob gags, as well as McCoist sniggering "Your place or mine?" to a cackling Barker.
But this schoolboy humour did at least show us that these sports stars had some personality, which is more than the post-match interview usually manages. Pippa Funnell, for instance, explained how she had to change her name to Philippa during the 2004 Olympic Games because "Pippa is Greek for blowjob" while an anecdote about the Australia scrum-half George Gregan's post-game celebrations involved being naked and doing something with a schooner bottle.
Barker certainly revelled in the endless double entendres. "I'm looking for one on top," she said to McCoist at one point. "That's the story of your life Sue," he responded, grinning away. It wasn't so much A Question of Sport as Carry On Dick. Heaven knows what David Coleman would have made of it"