Bostock's Cup

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!

It really is quite staggering that this gem has not been repeated or made available on video or DVD. You really do wonder about some of the people now in charge of television. Night after night we suffer hours of TV that is an insult to the intelligence yet this minor classic is ignored. Has someone lost the master tape?

I am one of the lucky ones who recorded it when it was shown on ITV. As secretary of UniBond League side Burscough Bostock's Cup causes a riot on our away coach trips every season as a new group of players get to see it for the first time. Some of the performances are priceless and the way it lampoons all the various stereotypes in football would make it even more popular today.

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.

.... could it be that ITV wouldn't want to release this absolute classic because it would show up their current series of Mike Bassett for what it is? When discussing Mike Bassett with some work colleagues I mentioned Bostock's Cup as being a far superior offering and was surprised to find that I seem to be the only person in my entire office that has actually seen it. This can't be right for a film that has got to be the funniest thing I have ever seen.

Let's face it, ITV don't have the greatest recent record for producing comedy so you would think that they would jump at the chance of at least repeating something which is genuinely funny. Perhaps if it could be combined with a lucrative telephone competition of where we think the coach driver will go next then they might be interested.

Come on ITV, there are still some of us out there who would like to watch original, quality comedy/drama. Do the decent thing thing. Repeat it then get it out on DVD.

I've just joined the IMDB after a colleague mentioned that our TV film was mentioned and was thrilled to see the comments on BOSTOCK'S CUP. Thanks to everyone who has said such nice things about a piece that I assumed was long-forgotten. ITV have never indicated that they will repeat the film, though it's pretty timeless. You may be interested to know that a follow-up script was written, but ITV decided not to commission it. Also, some of the players did turn out for a charity game. They have played in the strip, but not the wigs! I seem to recall Nick Hancock scoring a late equaliser, the jammy git.

Cheers, Mark - Producer of BC