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[PeterWithesShin]

Soccer am was worth it for the one episode where Mani of Stone Roses/Primal Scream fame put Lovejoy to task over his wearing of a Ramones T shirt. It epitomized the person Tim Lovejoy. It should give him sleepless nights but I doubt it does.

Wasn't it Martin Freeman who did that to Timbo? asked him to name his favourite Ramones album and Lovejoy looked as if he didn't even realise that the Ramones were a band

Either way, classic telly

You're right it was Freeman. Maybe Mani brought it up in a further episode which makes me think it was him.  I can still see Lovejoy squirming in his seat, that's what mattered.

It really is genius.

Martin (Freeman): “Is that a Ramones T-shirt, Tim?”
Lovejoy: “Er, yes.”
Martin “Do you actually know any Ramones songs?”
Lovejoy: (silence)
Martin: “Can you name two albums?”
Lovejoy: “Er, no.”
Martin: “Thought not.”

[Dr Butler]

Martin Freeman did a excellent documentary on Tamla Motown if I remember correctly...

UTV
The Doc

[Dave Cooper please]

Wasn't it Martin Freeman who did that to Timbo? asked him to name his favourite Ramones album

[Partridge]I'd have to say, The Best of The Ramones[/Partridge]

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

Villa have never had a right-wing mentality and so I'd venture that the NF would have been wasting their time with us. Try the other mob up the road.

I would have thought we would have been seen as the more racist club in Birmingham when you consider that Blues had the most famous multi-racial firm in England.

[PeterWithesShin]

Well you thought wrong.

[Percy McCarthy]

Villa have never had a right-wing mentality and so I'd venture that the NF would have been wasting their time with us. Try the other mob up the road.

I would have thought we would have been seen as the more racist club in Birmingham when you consider that Blues had the most famous multi-racial firm in England.

Yeah, about 4 years after we did.

[Ger Regan]

Please do not feed he troll.

[Vancouver]

Please do not feed he troll.

Who is the troll there?

[Ger Regan]

Handsworth. He has previous.

[Ads]

Lovejoy used to support Watford. He now supports Chelsea.

Before all the Soccer AM crap and you even begin to listen to the banal nonsense he spouts, you know he’s a c***.

[robbo1874]

I used to quite enjoy soccer am when I first became aware of it- it was quite funny for a season or two. Then it went stale and I've not really watched it for a number of years. And yes love joy is a Cnut. That's the only way to describe someone who switches teams to chase the glory.

Someone told me a quite interesting yarn about Helen chamberlain though. Not sure if there's any truth in it, but I heard she made a lot of dough playing poker in Vegas - then started some business venture that was very successful all at quite a young age before she started doing soccer am. I'll look a twat if it turns out not to be true, but I couldn't be arsed to check before posting this.

[Lambert and Payne]

Someone I know was based in Andover with the army about 18 months ago and got to know Helen who does a lot of work with Help for Heroes. She's an extremely nice lady by all accounts, called my cousin and spent 20 minutes on the phone with him. She also cringes at most of the stuff on Soccer AM and when the camera breaks away she apparently quite often rolls her eyes at the sketches they do. To her, its a well paid job and nothing more.

[Dave Cooper please]

Someone told me a quite interesting yarn about Helen chamberlain though. Not sure if there's any truth in it, but I heard she made a lot of dough playing poker in Vegas - then started some business venture that was very successful all at quite a young age before she started doing soccer am. I'll look a twat if it turns out not to be true, but I couldn't be arsed to check before posting this.

Don't think that's true, she was working in a holiday camp and doing some part-time DJ-ing before she was talent spotted.

The Vegas thing might be getting confused with the Poker Million tournament she won a few years back.

[Vancouver]

I also loved the first few years of Soccer AM when it was in the broom cupboard. I actually found Lovejoy quite a funny chap until it all went to his ego.

My mate was round Helen's house a few years ago doing an electrical job when he went to bend down to take a look at something (he's a big lad and need sthe support) and put his hand on her knickers on a dresser. He tried to play it cool and pretend it didn't happen but she saw this and his attempts to be polite dispite the beetroot face and smirked away at him. No doubt throwing them back the wash afterwards though.

[Dante Lavelli]

I'm looking forward to this guy's article if he uses this thread as his inspiuration.  It's going to be a belter.