Fantasy Football League Torments Jason Lee

[@chrispii47]

Whos here after watching baddiels interview with Jason Lee?

[@7shadesofsmoke621]

This aged well.

[@stussyhuff]

We love Jason Lee ❤️

[@AnonAnonAnon]

Just watched Baddiel on TV doing a documentary on racism against Jews, and I've just found this! FFS! Mind blowing!

[@danieleyre8913]

Yup. Self-cantered hypocrite. And low-talent. And what’s worse, Jason Lee has an internet podcast and had Baddiel on as a guest to confront him about the blackface. Baddiel never apologises, instead he tries to paint himself as an also-victim. Worthless horrible little man.

[@MrAlistar99]

@@danieleyre8913 he did apologise though. I just watched it.

[@danieleyre8913]

@@MrAlistar99 Timestamp?

[@adamkwert]

47:12

[@merked1980]

@@danieleyre8913 1995?

[@grimacemcdonald1]

‘Victim’ of discrimination Baddiel - who is now the go to guy for antisemitic interviews- didn’t apologise to Jason for 25 years until it hurt his career and to sell his new book ✅

[@scrubsrc4084]

@@grimacemcdonald1 he should never have apologised

[@vimp6260]

​@@scrubsrc4084 yeh you dont care

[@scrubsrc4084]

@@vimp6260 you are right. Like the vast majority of people who don't care about your fake outrage at comedy.

[@vimp6260]

@@scrubsrc4084 vast majority? got any evidence for that, just your delusion

[@scrubsrc4084]

@@vimp6260 ons did a study on offence and almost 70% were opposed to stopping comedians telling jokes because it upsets people with salty vaginas

[@pauldoherty2487]

Big love to Jason Lee…this is pure bullying

[@Gbuggj3Dsf1467]

simp

[@TheWelwyn21]

Behave

[@benmacdui9328]

Shut up you wetwipe

[@johnbobby1092]

😂😂😂

[@imemine6494]

.. didums

[@aidanjohnkelly]

Whatever about the use of “blackface” and the racist overtones of this sketch, but it was merciless bullying, Jason Lee showed enormous strength of character to overcome it. Baddiel is now the self-appointed champion of tackling anti-semitism, which of course is a cancer, but this was shocking - I found the bullying far worse than his “of the era” use of blackface, bullying wasn’t cool in ‘95 either, let alone racist bullying. It’s shameful behaviour from Baddiel and Skinner, they both owe a fulsome apology to Jason Lee.

[@interestedlen8823]

David Baddiel seems to have an overwhelming sense that he's right, whatever he does. If he hadn't kept doubling down, he could reasonably own it now, but he knew exactly what he was doing. I've still to get why he's considered a comedian, he's just been lucky enough to be the straight man to a couple of naturally funny guys.

[@ryanb7385]

How is this racist

[@aidanjohnkelly]

@@ryanb7385 You are joking, surely?

[@ryanb7385]

​@@aidanjohnkelly No, Its just making fun of someone, which was what they did on the show.

[@joshuataylor3550]

@@ryanb7385 Ryan, I dearly hope you're not more than 12 years old.

[@apintofbeer1667]

Privately educated David Baddiel and then onto Cambridge University Baddiel has made a career of punching down

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

Baddiel is a narcissist who doesn’t care about inflicting bigotry on other people but when it happens to him, the world knows about it.

[@joshuataylor3550]

He's apologised directly to Jason. We have to forgive, move on and take his points on anti-semitism equally as seriously as anti-black racism we see in this video.

[@wdyrm]

@@joshuataylor3550 mate it took him 25 years. 25 fucking years, actually sit back and think about that for a second

[@interestedlen8823]

@@joshuataylor3550 No we don't. It's a personal decision when people feel they should forgive, you don't get to dictate how people feel.

[@hanselmansell7555]

@@joshuataylor3550 apologises 25 years later and just before massively cashing in on the issue of racism 🤔

[@carbonarapadrino]

@@joshuataylor3550 Joshua... name from the bible...

[@keithskegwin]

He's got a pineapple on his head, he's got a pineapple on his head

[@eoghanlyng5074]

"Racism should be tackled equally.." Clearly, Baddiel has forgotten about this clip...

[@benhay100]

He has apologized multiple times for it

[@eoghanlyng5074]

@@benhay100 No, he apologised in 2022. Lee asked why it took a quarter of a century to do so.

[@rudybadass5520]

@@thepaddedcell8140 doing black face definitely is!!

[@19grand]

He hasn't.

[@maureenlansley671]

@The Padded Cell really.

[@StephenFiorentini]

This aged like milk

[@richydoopree4537]

Baddiel is probably one of the worlds most monumental hypocrites. No apology anywhere regarding a program he made. Blackface was never acceptable Smdh

[@whiteyvegas]

It was acceptable to me and still is

[@Jimbo8012]

@@DeviantDeveloper - Fuck off mate. If you knew the history of black face and minstrel events, you'd know it's inherently racist with songs like 'All Coons look alike to me' played during them. Also, Baddiel made a big song and dance about the fact that Corbyn mispronouncing the name of a dead nonce who trafficked children was somehow anti-Semitic and yet here, ruined a young footballer's career by blacking up. He knew exactly what he was doing at the time and he didn't give a fuck. The reason is because Baddiel believes there's a hierarchy of racism and anti-Semitism trumps everything else, Baddiel is a hypocritical cunt.

[@helical729]

@@DeviantDeveloper at what parties would you still be laughing at blackface? Ku klux Klan rallies?! Get with the times mate, this stuff is indefensible now.

[@TheMonki1]

You are wrong, clearly history shows that backface WAS once acceptable.

[@Shr3dward]

@@TheMonki1 it may have been social accepted but it has never been morally acceptable. Unfortunately even 25-30 years ago people laughed at this kind of thing, but society is changing for the better and as such, blatant racism like the drivel in this show is being shown the contempt it deserves.

[@barb4645]

I’ve just looked at photos of Jason’s hair. All young footballers at that time liked to stand out and he did… I think they are teasing his hair and not his colour

[@deanlowdon8381]

If you’ve listened to Jason Lee talk about this, you’ll understand that ‘teasing’ his hairstyle was as bad to him as the black face.

[@PizzaStormA]

Did you miss the blackface part?

[@oosnice7348]

Imagine Badiels outrage if a comic poked fun at Avi Cohen’s conk and shiteness

[@762mm7]

I know mate, completely hypocrite

[@sheepthehack]

What a BLAND little world you want to live in!!! Where noone gets offended because noone is allowed to do ANYTHING remotely offensive! Get a life.

[@19grand]

He has apologised many, many times.

[@frankcarrodus7543]

@@19grand It took him twenty five years to make contact directly and only because of his Channel 4 documentary on antisemitism.

[@cityzens634]

@@19grand Have you got a dog in this fight? You seem to be defending him a lot

[@vestibulate]

Grim viewing. Respect to Jason Lee.

[@johnbobby1092]

😂😂😂

[@RicTic66]

Small boys in the park, pineapples for haircuts? Enduring image, isn't it?

[@squirrelofdoom3830]

Marvelous!

[@tommytoofar]

Roman Warrior isn't it, wasn't it, hmm....

[@Petrolosis]

They'd be cancelled today

[@sheepthehack]

hahahaha

[@stephenmurray2851]

@@Petrolosis he just has been. It was in the news today. That's why I'm here lol. The footballer said being caricatured traumatised him lol. Bwahaha

[@Danny123a]

Wow this has aged well

[@TheWelwyn21]

Brilliant

[@thesprawl2361]

Thing is, Frank Clark was spot on.

[@MrSimblock]

Baddiel doesn't whitewash that it was racist. He writes in his recent book about antisemitism: "...the make up and costume in that sketch were extremely ill-judged and a mistake....being made-up in that way has antecedents in a very bad racist tradition. We shouldn't have done it, and I have apologised publicly on various occasions since". He goes on to write a couple of pages later: "This is not an attempt to excuse me dressing up as Jason Lee (which was racist)." He admits it was racist then too. It wouldn't have been an issue if Baddiel had only "dressed up" like Jason Lee. The problem is he "blacked up" like Jason Lee. Different time? Yes, to an extent. 1995. But nearly two decades after The Black and White Minstrels had been taken off the air (in 1978, the same year that Rock Against Racism began). Fourteen years after the Brixton Riots and the Scarman Report. Two years after Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death. Baddiel is rightly sensitive to antisemitic abuse both on and off the terraces. Unfortunately, this ridicule and depiction caused Lee to suffer racial abuse on the field (which Baddiel doesn't mention in his book). That doesn't mean Baddiel should be solely hung out to dry. Skinner, the producers, the network, and everyone who watched and laughed along share responsibility. But Baddiel agreed to do it. As he himself now admits, he should have known better.

[@bfunirfeyh5822]

Why are you defending this? He has only properly apologised to Jason Lee for tormenting him fairly recently (as part of his tv show…)

[@MrSimblock]

@@bfunirfeyh5822 I'm not defending it. I'm explaining why it was indefensible.

[@bfunirfeyh5822]

@@MrSimblock Fair. I agree with what you’re saying. I think also the fact that he was fairly consistently racist in his skits (although he recognises it now), and receiving next to no consequences from it (unlike Lee), feels like it does slightly disprove his point a bit that antisemitism is the most overlooked form of racism (which I don’t massively disagree with). That’s not to say at all that he shouldn’t be allowed to write or talk about antisemitism (obviously), just that it’s quite hypocritical when he’s faced no considerable consequences for his past actions.

[@MrSimblock]

@@bfunirfeyh5822 Not only is Baddiel allowed to write and talk about antisemitism, he has become the go-to public face of jews talking about antisemitism (as if there is a single voice within the disparate jewish community). As you imply, that should be problematic given his self-confessed racist mockery of Lee over several weeks on FANTASY FOOTBALL (and failure to apologise to Lee's face until recently - it felt very self-conscious not to describe himself in his recent book JEWS DON'T COUNT as blacking up or using blackface in the show; only that he 'dressed up' like Lee). But it hasn't lead to any consequences, as far as I can see (aside from negative comments on social media). Baddiel's books and programmes about anti-semitism continue, often with celebrity opinion standing in for informed analysis. For a serious read about anti-semitism in the UK, read the Community Security Trust's annual report on the subject, which has real data, context, and analysis. Anti-semitism has a genuine paradox that Baddiel's arguments fail to discuss. He wants it to be regarded as a special form of racism, deserving its own name, yet at the same time he wants jews to receive the same level of "anti-racism" attention as other ethnic groups who tend to all get bundled together, and receive more attention. It ironically exemplifies the jewish dilemma about assimilation - how much is too much? Should jews throw their lot in with other groups who suffer racism, or should they stand apart, under their own banner? By and large, this dilemma is a luxury not afforded other ethnic groups, whose visual appearance makes them immediately visible, and therefore immediately vulnerable to both the kind of systemic racism from birth most British jews are highly unlikely to experience, and the kind of treatment at the hands of people like Lady Hussy, or worse.

[@bfunirfeyh5822]

@@MrSimblock Couldn’t agree more. Will check out that report

[@assassinsunite3434]

It's funny

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

I miss the 90's when piss taking was just that.

[@lockelamora8989]

Yeah when everyone could be as racist as they wanted...good old days

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

@@lockelamora8989 And peeps had a sense of humour, all gone now I just want to be offended

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

MAN LIKE MOdEEBS MAN ,,..dEMS MANS INNIT .. ..

[@deanlowdon8381]

I think people are a little over sensitive these days, but this was clearly racist, and to make it a reoccurring joke was tantamount to bullying. If you haven’t already done so, watch the podcast where Baddiel talks to Jason Lee, and you’ll see how it really affected Lee’s life.

[@FurQ69]

@@lockelamora8989 What was racist ?

[@prabsingh3755]

Noticed Baddiel complaining about discrimination against a certain group but hasn't apologised for this

[@johnmason1239]

He has apologised publicly &repeatedly

[@garethjenkins5922]

@@johnmason1239 no he hasn't. What he did was vile and he's given half hearted apologies and excuses but he is not truly sorry for his racism.

[@zivkovicable]

@@johnmason1239 Not to Jason Lee.

[@Timothy27778]

It's not racist. Chris Lilley and Robert Downey Jnr have blacked up too. There is nothing to apologize for. Jason Lee needs to chill.

[@randr2141]

Nothing to apologise for. Jason Lee was crap. It wouldn’t of mattered what colour he was. If your doing impressions, you need to impersonate the person! They weren’t racist, they took the piss out of anyone associated with football.

[@tonycavanagh1929]

David Baddiel who sees everything as antisemetic

[@tobyo9176]

I thought that as well

[@kailashpatel1706]

agree...his comments towards Corbyn was an absolute joke, he spent his entire career pushing the envelope and now his against antisemitism..!!!

[@Soliy87]

My thoughts exactly

[@whiteyvegas]

Still this is awesome

[@bluelanterns2982]

It's the last gasp of his career. Pretty desparate and despicable to smear JC with no evidence. Ethnic background does not give anyone a get out racism free card. This is clearly racist and also not funny.

[@devout666]

Baddiel is only interested in selling his book.

[@HandleGF]

2022 ... he went for Jimmy Carr and then the p-word emerged, on top of everything else. Baddiel should now be on the slippery slope to..... who he?

[@maltesetony9030]

Baddiel's book & documentary "Jews Don't Count" brought me here. Otherwise, I would never have heard of Jason Lee.

[@martinkerrmusic]

Jeff Astle is a decent singer!

[@alid8113]

Was. RIP 🪦 Jeff

[@p28-e7j]

One very regrettable episode from tv. Shouldn't have done all this to him. It was bullying.

[@MrMozzo]

Tosser

[@DeviantDeveloper]

Of a poor millionaire celebrity. Banter mate, learn what a joke is yeah. The fact remains, that haircut will always look shite.

[@whiteyvegas]

Cry baby

[@lawksalordy4405]

"The Anti-Bullying Alliance defines bullying as being hurtful, repetitive, intentional, and involving an imbalance of power." Intentional is hard to say but I reckon it fitted the bill for the other three elements.

[@TheloneousHonk]

i never watched the Jason Lee episodes. why? coz i identified these two as gold plated knobs early on. they were then and they certainly still are now.

[@edfriday7709]

Jings. It wasn't that long ago and 'blacking up' didn't seem so bad then... How times have changed!!!!

[@DeviantDeveloper]

Yeah comedy is no longer allowed.

[@jimmymcguire8217]

I've enjoyed since the 70s, great fun

[@theculturedthug6609]

@@DeviantDeveloper What a shit times we live in.

[@AnEnemy100]

It’s shite now and it was shite then.

[@sa4540]

It’s not the blacking up for me. This is just plain bullying.

[@johnhodgetts2111]

Horrible. Baddiel finally apologized, probably when he realized this wasn't the best look when he was trying to sell a book and make a documentary about antisemitism. Danny Baker joining in just makes it all the more ridiculous. They should all be ashamed, particularly as this was 95/96. We are not talking about the 70s/early 80s here.

[@Ytnzy250]

Yeah but if it's funny it makes you laff & if it doesn't it doesn't, simples. 😅😅😅

[@anthonymcken6050]

I've always suspected that Danny Baker is a Racist.

[@mofojohnson1]

It was humour about his football skills not his race. People didn't used to be as much as a fanny in those days

[@sjeb1967]

Shut up snowflake its people like you taking the humour out of everything 🖕😘

[@FurQ69]

@@mofojohnson1 Comedy is dead gen z have skin thinner than a sausage casing.

[@pilkoglazeburywarrior]

Comedy gold 🤣 🤣🤣 bring back the 90s!!!

[@ants84]

It only took him 25 years to apologise in person. 🙄

[@markwilliamson6821]

Baddiel, a white upper middle class liberal so in love with the idea he's in some way being oppressed, he forget his boot was on another mans face.

[@redlinetelevision]

Is Jewish white?

[@cityzens634]

@@redlinetelevision Yep

[@HarryTaylor91]

I really enjoyed watching him play when he came to Boston United. Never the fastest or most skillfull guy but we was almost always guaranteed to score a goal from a set piece off Jason Lees head

[@ronnieparkerscott6223]

Terrible...

[@saeedyarahmadi9913]

Poor guy,they destroyed him,but if someone said something about ......I they savage him.

[@rosieraver4172]

Thank God I'm not a moronic football fan

[@irishroverX]

Poor lad never deserved that treatment purely because he had a haircut that didnt fit well with the football "fraternity".

[@Lionboy2930]

I always wondered way back then if this would rear it's head in the future?? and boy was i right.. i remember Jason's wife at the time complaining, but nothing was done. Baddiel is a hypocrite full stop, and he deserves any comeback that comes his way...

[@philm7213]

Jamie Lawrence at Leicester also had the pineapple song sung to him by fans, he clearly loved it and thrived, waving back at the fans.

[@siblej1]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing

[@I7275-p2d]

So is recognising mistakes and moving on as people. You’d still be shitting yourself and having your arse wiped otherwise. Having said that perhaps you still do.

[@siblej1]

@@I7275-p2d Wow. What a complete tool.

[@AaronWilson-o6c]

Pineapple head Jason Lee 😅😂

[@donnyjay9046]

FM! This was the mid 90’s!

[@TruthTortoise81]

amazing really, but then again that creepy weirdo Walliams was doing blackface on Little Britain around the same time.

[@LoFiRecoverySoundscapes]

Your point?

[@donnyjay9046]

@@LoFiRecoverySoundscapes it was still a douche’ move, even back then.

[@LilySaintSin]

@@LoFiRecoverySoundscapes it wasn't that long ago.

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

Was brilliant

[@hazelwalsh3269]

OMG! What were you thinking David Baddiel??

[@olafkreator8654]

Gold!

[@markrichards636]

Funny

[@Nunos645cgh]

I always remembered the song as .... Abedi Pele he was crap as Jason Lee! Must have remembered it wrong!

[@Chris_34]

6:08 Jeff Astle singing the theme song from Prisoner Cell Block H 😂

[@andrewwalton1041]

90s comedy. I miss you so much

[@762mm7]

The audio feedback made me think there was a fan in my phone akin to a laptop 😂

[@leostreat3573]

Just playing devils advocate here but maybe they were taking the piss because Jason Lee was a bit shit ?

[@l3oozehound]

He was shit...but it's woke world now. Even shit actors are getting big roles based on diversity and not actual talent. Is it any wonder why films are getting more and more shit? 😂

[@pottypranks8628]

Well said . All this race crap is nonsense. Pineapple head was CRAP.

[@sjeb1967]

Fck i miss this show 👍🤣

[@jackhughes9811]

He sipped a drink out of his head 😂

[@MickSenior]

These guys ruined Jason Lee. Watch 13:05, poor Jason goes to high five Steve Stone after scoring but misses his hand. Poor guy!

[@jamies4048]

aye but he was shite though

[@dutchy777]

@@jamies4048 he sure was

[@BlackMassala]

Jason Lee would have been shite at Football regardless of this show.

[@biodegradablepsycho]

ive spoken to the police and the FA about the arrests for chanting, videos of the conversations are on my channel.

[@rexstout8177]

Baddiel has to be the most thin skinned hyper sensitive "comedian" ever on British TV. The amount of whining he's done about people pointing out facts about a foreign Country the past few years... ... And this is what he was like back then.

[@Grrrr3FKAGrrrrGrrrrGrrrr]

I can't recall him doing any comedy since the last century. What is the point of him, why is he still a 'celebrity'? He just seems to crop up on my telly for spurious reasons when there is an international football tournament, its like he's living of the back of a football song that isn't even that popular anymore. Watching this just makes me think he should be forgotten.

[@johnkeane8149]

@@Grrrr3FKAGrrrrGrrrrGrrrr he is in the tribe

[@merked1980]

@@Grrrr3FKAGrrrrGrrrrGrrrr People don't like hearing this and i'm only discovering it myself but when you're a "friend of israel" then you're a friend of israel. It's one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the UK and essentially destroyed Corbyn and just about anyone else who supports Palestine. I don't think Baddiel is that extreme.. But he has friends, powerful ones i would imagine..

[@azapro911]

"Come on boss, we're still in Europe." "Yeah, but the ball isn't!"

[@Sha-Ayo]

Oof

[@diamondgeezertunes]

Baddiel is now, after 25 years apologising for the cruel, no stop racist bullying that he and Skinner consistantly made at Jason's expense.... Unforgivable

[@e1239]

🤣 what..????

[@diamondgeezertunes]

@@e1239 Jeez man ! ... meaning that it’s taken 25 years to have the balls to say sorry .. not 5 , 10 ,15 ...but 25 .. do you get it ?? Rewatch the video

[@e1239]

@@diamondgeezertunes I wonder if you can define racism..? Seems to me it's hard to define when you were simply making fun of someone's haircut or their ability to play football. Nobody should be beyond satire. He's essentially apologising for making jokes, which is simply ridiculous.

[@malachix780]

@@e1239 .....In blackface

[@e1239]

@@malachix780 so what..? Start crying... Oh no - blackface, however will you survive the trauma..? Grow up, this is how pathetic this is, it's merely hurt feelings

[@ngiallag2792]

there was no racism in it at all the joke was being a terrible striker which the shoe was all about to take the piss out of football and footballers and themselves it wasn't target Jason Lee all the time other footballers were also subjected to bring ridiculed.

[@eclectica1]

A white person dressing up with blackface isn't racist according to you then. Cool.

[@TheWelwyn21]

Funny as fuck we need more of this

[@alfieb6711]

No it’s racist u monghole

[@TheWelwyn21]

@@alfieb6711 no its not, get a grip its comedy nothing more

[@fka_the_body1542]

U just exposed urself as a racist 😫👍

[@alfieb6711]

@@TheWelwyn21 it’s very racist and unfortunately that was the norm in the 90’s disgusting stuff

[@TheWelwyn21]

@@alfieb6711 behave seems like everyone has become offended by the slightest thing. Its not the England I know, are you offended by queers as well

[@gyorkshire257]

Oh look, it's racism expert David Baddiel.

[@akeemzaman8645]

It was just comedy. People need to chill out. Too many snowflakes nowadays.

[@Samwwrl]

This guy now lecturing us saying we don’t take anti semitism as seriously as anti black racism 🥴

[@scottharbison3824]

hE SAID THE THING...nOTTS fOREST

[@bsastarfire250]

This is not " back in the day" to me 60s 70s ok , but in the 90s ????

[@l3oozehound]

What so 30 years ago is not back in the day?

[@bsastarfire250]

@@l3oozehound social attitudes changed a lot in 60s 70s . I'm prob older than you 🤔

[@scatchef]

Do you remember when black people were just the same as everyone else and we could mock each other openly. Good times.

[@FBFJDKOEUEURJFJDJ]

Gammon

[@scatchef]

@@FBFJDKOEUEURJFJDJ Pardon

[@paulhank7967]

No more German mullet jokes. Equality and fairness rules.

[@liamtroughton2893]

Absolutely hilarious. Peak UK comedy this.

[@taxitom2]

“...they’re just middle class white boys” you got that right Frank (Clark). David Baddiel blackface just about sums him up.

[@MartinHiggins1972]

*wide boys

[@ysgol3]

How many times dos David have to apologise for this? His recent book (and documentary) on anti-semitism by apparent 'progressives' is so brilliant.

[@marknewbold2583]

Apparently only once; 25 years later

[@tomh3675]

I remember watching Fantasy Football and finding these sketches funny as a kid, which is why they annoy me so much now

[@footballoldboy4818]

As my Chinese friend said to me,that is razy lacism

[@runningupthathill2454]

I’m so sorry Jason what you had to endure this is absolutely disgusting and appalling it really is and they should have put a stop to this. It should never been allowed absolutely infuriated by this this is bullying and an absolute mockery of a great man.

[@sallybally344]

If he was a good looking clever male, we wouldn't ridicule him

[@benjaminram4204]

Jason just read your comment, was touched and says thanks

[@ezekielwilton3301]

Sensitive

[@benmacdui9328]

Class

[@Dean-p6b]

News flash...Its called a joke. He's got a pineapple on his head. He wasn't a prolific striker. AND his haircut was like a pineapple style. They took the piss out of lots of footballers. Race NEVER came into it.

[@deckyBWFC91]

This is hilarious, dunno why the hate for it.

[@neilknight8044]

I can't remember the song "which side are you on" knew they took the piss out of it on FFL. Oh, loved skinner, never liked baddiel, since his anne "cot-death" diamond joke

[@tomr1056]

Can someone explain the joke that he couldn't get a letter in the mailbox?! Thanks...

[@sblack2194]

He means because he misses a lot of chances in front of goal he would also miss the letter box.

[@barnabywild2215]

If this is bullying then EVERY Spitting Image sketch ever made requires a personal apology to politicians. And Jason Lee DID miss an awful lot of goals. I'm impartial. I think football is shit and resent it taking up so much news and screen time. No apologies from me.

[@dobobobo]

Many thanks for sharing!

[@stillben]

Nasty program

[@kennymcrobbie7610]

Baddiel wot a chugger! 😏

[@anRoisinDubh]

WOW!

[@danielrobinson8104]

I remember watching this as a kid and it never once made me think about his race. It was all about the fact that he was very badly out of form and kept missing and happened to have an unusual hairstyle on top of that. If you're doing an impression of someone and trying to look like them then of course you would change your skin tone to help with that, nothing to do with blackface. If it was a white guy (or a person of any race) playing so badly and had a look that stood out they would have mocked him too, i'm so sure of it. We've definitely gone backwards because none of these sketches made me think about race at the time and I think most people felt that way too. Nowadays i'm being forced to think about the race of people all the time which is sad. It was cruel but also totally normal behaviour from any footy fans at the time so not really a big deal and there's nothing to apologise about really. It couldn't happen now because we've lost so many of our freedoms to express ourselves but at the time it was fine. Maybe the only negative thing was that it went on for a bit too long and they could've moved onto someone else to joke about more quickly.

[@evo5dave]

That's your experience. What about the experience of any black person watching it? Or not watching it but having to go to school the next day and having people do exactly the same thing to them because 'at the time it was fine'?

[@alfieb6711]

@@evo5dave he’s definitely white so that’s why he found it funny

[@danielrobinson8104]

@@alfieb6711 I'm sure a lot of black people found it funny at the time too because it was about his hairstyle and how bad he was at football and nothing to do with his race. They probably wouldn't find it funny now because people like you make everyone obsessed with racism

[@martins8619]

Spot on , Daniel

[@christianbrown4423]

My thoughts exactly. Bullying, yes; racist, no.

[@jimmyk9523]

White players were equally ripped to pieces..... Jimmy Greaves, Iain Dowie, think they even did Ronaldo at one point.

[@briggaskin]

it was funny at the time. Opinions and social attitudes change over time and now this would be seen as unnaceptable. i remember the show well back then and never saw it as anything other than piss taking. Didnt think of it as racism or even bullying. obviously now this has changed but time changes many things.

[@ezekielwilton3301]

THANK YOU

[@childofchief2290]

2022 where a Man can be racist, live his whole life unaffected by it and then 25 years later lecture people on racism.

[@5wheels178]

truth

[@deedrabbit]

Pele was shite too apparently. I guess Skinner and Baddiel must have been amazing players in their time.

[@iamkaviman6064]

Not aged well has it! Anyone who enjoys this as entertainment must have the IQ of a teddy bear.

[@jimmymcguire8217]

Yeah I love it

[@iamkaviman6064]

@@jimmymcguire8217 good lad your parents must be so proud of you

[@jimmymcguire8217]

@@iamkaviman6064 they really are! do you know them?

[@zivkovicable]

@@jimmymcguire8217 Everyone knows your mum.

[@jimmymcguire8217]

@@zivkovicable and you never met your dad

[@PeterChelmsford]

They should've done the new series.

[@Moonlightgraeme]

It’s amazing the stuff you could get away with back in the day, this is really uncomfortable viewing now. Not good.

[@kapiltriv]

Making fun of a black man's hair and black facing... That's straight Racism. I know times were different then but that should not be an excuse and they should at least acknowledge that they can see how its wrong... and besides, take away the Racism that's straight bullying.

[@SamhuinnSam]

£14,000 a week average salary for PL player… they’ll take every critical word.

[@xxgalaxywolfxx1730]

Fantasy Football... Brilliant

[@danefoxx8318]

Savage

[@dondamon4669]

How is it racist to take the piss out of someone?

[@l3oozehound]

Who????

[@whodoyouratemore]

There was a culture of this kind of entertainment, I've seen hosts on they think it's all over abuse Chris Eubanks, Frank lebouf etc where it's uncomfortable to watch

[@pearcegreatesteverleftback03]

Great show, should be bought back!