Bostock's Cup

Airplane apart, I don't think I've ever laughed at a film so much in all my life.

I love football like mad, but I tend to hate almost any song or film about football as they tend to be unrealistic. This wasn't.

I watched it once, it was over 2 years ago & it was brilliant. Everyone I know loved it. I remember the gay physio, the sloping pitch at about a 45 degree angle and 'Shoes' (a player so named because he once turned up for training in a new pair of shoes). Brilliant, that's what goes on in park football.

A definite 10/10. If anyone from the TV industry is reading this, considering all the crap you repeat on English tele, please have the sense to show this again (and the Muppets while you're at it). Also does anyone know if this was shown on BBC or ITV. I think it was ITV, so it's worth asking them if they plan to show it again. They should do.

Having obtained a copy of Bostocks Cup I must confess It is not as funny as I originally thought!! IT IS BETTER!!!!! Charlie Williams ... eat your heart out. Match fixing???? Never! Sloping pitch at 45%? Ronnie and Reggie Kay? George Best? The Coach Driver who thinks Pontefract is in South Wales ( It's all Ponty this and Ponty that)Bertie Masson's (Tim Healey's)lucky Cup hat!! (not that he's into gimmicks) Sugar Plum Fairy????? Confused???? Watch it again. The innovative use of real footage with Bostock players was brilliant and the producer should be proud of giving us a MASTERPIECE. Come on ITV do the viewers and yourself a favour - show it again!!! Please>

As you can see I've submitted 2 comments about this show since 1991....and no, ITV have still not made it available for general release.

HOWEVER, I recently contacted ITV to see if there was any way of getting hold of a copy, and this was their reply.......

"Unfortunately there are no plans for this programme to be released on DVD/video. You can however, purchase copies from our Viewers Requests dept. Their email address is: viewers.requests@itv.com ".

Hope you all now get the chance to enjoy this classic short comedy again.

I am fortunate enough to have a copy. I have posted the hilarious sloping pitch scene on you tube. You can view it here. Opps! The system won't let me post a link but if you go to Youtube.com and do a search for Bostocks Cup, you will find the video there. Please feel free to make a comment and also rate it. Who knows if we get enough hits ITV will have to replay it. If you have a particular scene you would like to see just let me know and I will post it. Yes I am fluffing this comment up a bit as I have to get to 10 lines Enjoy and happy viewing. Still not enough so here's some more information. It was Ralph Little's first TV appearance. The ;sloping pitch was actually a grassy Hill in Yeardsley, which I think is somewhere near Heathrow Airport. I'll try posting again . See you!

Bostocks cup was and has been the only football spoof that i found hilarious, it beats mike bassett or any other.

If it was advertised, repeated on television then sold on DVD it would make a fortune because it is one of those films you just have to show your mates, explaining the gags and the spoofs yourself just doesn't work, you have to watch it to laugh.

It would be a shame if it is never shown it was such a piece of genuine British comedy like the porridge or the only fools. i have sky TV and although it has many channels i wouldn't give most of them the time of day they show such rubbish!, get it back on the tele and get it selling!