Jiskefet - English Sports

[@ivystopia]

It's interesting to see how the game has changed over the years. Nowadays you wouldn't see a threesome after a successful fringing like that - teams are much more focussed on getting early doors. I understand why they do it, but it was a lot more interesting back in the day.

[@wiebebokmadeboer]

😂

[@gareth6517]

100% with you there. did you see how he went for the buckfoot in the right schwig on the board?! that's how they played it back then. there was excitement and elegance! and then they had the courage to go red, greens and yellow to finish it off the next round. unimaginable in today's plays!

[@drehendesMausrad]

Yes, yes, the olden days were always the better, weren't they? @Flutterdash already said setting the focus on the early doors is an understandable change and in fact I say it's a necessary change. With players like McLeod or Farnsworth you can't hope to win with the first greens before making an odd glouster.

[@chrisenghart8786]

Oh look at that graceful frigid on the grass there! Reminds me of Gullfords 1985-double grass-game. Indeed the olden days had its elegancy and it's diligent focus on triffles and strokes with one for two each time around, and that we must not forget. Yet the game clearly evolves in a more paceful manner with Mulroneys bold tactics and drastric measures in accordance with the more frequent use of early doors and the more modern aspects of the fringes. I really don't know what future holds for this game guys.

[@gregoryjenkins6192]

Thing is though, it’s just wasn’t safe back then. Yes, bloody well entertaining and and more theatrical. But just too many hoops were lost in those days. I think think it’s a good balance between keeping hoops but still fringing. I do get what you mean though.

[@a.c.3024]

This is the most Monty Python non-Monty Python skit ever created. Well done, chaps.

[@dazzag]

This is an actual documentary.

[@SCP_Foundation_Spokesperson]

"Well, we've seen that before, Ted“ - The younger among us may not remember it, but this commentary refers to the 1976 England vs. Sri Lanka match in which Sir Walter Bennett voluntarily went into the Leftovers so that Maxwell and Kenworthy III could perform a foot swept. A rare demonstration of flawless sportsmanship. Side note: referees *never* forgot to check the doors back then.

[@GtheMVP]

Sir Bennett needs an a sportsman award named after him. He was such a great role model.

[@isitonathroneofmethadone6563]

Among us?!

[@RS-zt5zj]

The funny thing is as a South African I follow cricket and still have no idea if this is real or not.

[@youpie24]

@@GtheMVP Cheer up chap, he's in the house of Lords now, or was that his brother Biffy?

[@jopiez1]

@@RS-zt5zji’m Dutch, and remember ages ago seeing this while zapping on tv. Didn’t know Jiskefet (which was a popular satirical program) was on, and watched wondering which sport this could be. Took me a while to realise it was parody.

[@omagawdwataf455]

This game still gives me goosebumps after all those years. This was the game that made me fall in love with this beautiful sport.

[@d.litwin7713]

Its all in the ballet of competition.

[@maartengroot9326]

Yes, indeed Mulrooney!

[@svenjansen2134]

Looking very confident there..

[@velotik6633]

I’m British and watched the full 5 minute sketch, which is 5 minutes longer than I have ever managed with an actual cricket match.

[@wisdomfull]

As an Englishman all I can say is that this is hilarious! Jolly good play boys and some of the best fringing of the ring i’ve ever seen

[@dadsongs]

My grandson suggested that anything can look good when it's all done with CGI. I called his mother to come pick him up. A week later, he and his mother got back on my good side by giving me THE ring that Gale Nesbit won the Berchtesgaden Invitational with.

[@yugster78]

Beautiful partnership by arsely and bumsworth.

[@joelatham5937]

yes... it was great how they were able to be humourous at the same time as displaying some excellent fringing

[@swordfish7165]

Almost perfect fringing and just in the nick of time.

[@AndrewSowerby]

This sums up "English" sports perfectly. I have absolutely no idea what's going on, but I can't stop watching it.

[@PhG1961]

Indeed!

[@jonb5974]

Fair play Dutchies, you have us on toast with that parody.

[@tonniebaumeister]

We (the Dutch) and the English have a certain similarity in our humour. John Cleese could have made this film. Ridiculization and Irony is always within a certain credibility. There are a lot of quips about the Dutch in your language. This is a nice evidence about our mutual humour. A TV interview with John Cleese. For 80% in English. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5Kxq52eZq-XodU&ab_channel=HH

[@svenjansen2134]

Joyfully done!

[@peteratkinson922]

'toast' is partially incinerated bread. 'Bread' is.....

[@RondelayAOK]

They make it look so easy.

[@fite-4-ever876]

The fringington sylford is really something

[@dadsongs]

You know? After three quarts at this intensity, I'd be a rag doll.

[@dozog]

Best comment this side of the internet.

[@iskrajackal9049]

😂

[@rogercorbett4764]

For the love of the game.

[@tedmorphis9790]

Is this the greatest sketch of all time? Yes.

[@ronvanwezel218]

Yes, this is it. I can't stop watching, tears on cheek

[@MartinJohnZ]

So glad to see referee Fluxton check the scrunchlings on the doors, it gets overlooked all too often these days. Mulroney may never have blinched that traffold if the folkrings were faulty. Showing so much bold creativity changing the patterns on those yellows too!

[@dadsongs]

Absolutely. Their trying to eliminate doors in Mar Manes. That's the rumor, anyhow.

[@Prillaquatjaa]

You sir, know what you are talking about. Thanks for this great insight.

[@djbloodshot]

how about that traffold after the footswip?

[@zaggy3110]

Reminds me of the 90s when I suffered from sleep disorder.When the english cricket team played in India, Pakistan, New Zealand or Australia BBC radio used to broadcast it live and I (living in Germany) listened via AM or long wave radio.I had no bloody idea about cricket rules but the voices of the commentators were so "narcotic".Best sleeping drug ever.

[@roberthermans6357]

narcoleptic (the voices), haha!

[@BenLovejoy]

The reverse fingle drop was particularly pleasing to watch. Reminds me of the England vs Jamaica match in 2013, when Hetherington-Warbottle pulled a wittleflub on the final shimble - beautifully played!

[@carmenl163]

Oh yes, that second wittleflub! I don't think that was ever topped.

[@svenjansen2134]

Unforgettable!

[@joecollins1942]

What red-blooded Englishman could EVER forget, indeed Sir!🧐

[@rafikhaizal]

How he managed to stay onside with that double-edged pringet is still mind-boggling to this day!

[@hockeyjetpack]

So easy to do on a manicred pitch!!

[@senormojo]

Every time I watch that splendid skit, I catch myself several times still trying to understand the rules. Just goes to show how brilliant it is. And how daft I am.

[@hynjus001]

damn I just realized I was trying to figure out the rules too.

[@wgb01001]

Same

[@vanillG59]

this is the best sport i have seen in my entire life and im 87 years old

[@marcoanonymous8434]

Well, to make things short, I was there on the day that Mulroney, Wigsworth and Wrixler played this marvellous game. Had to wait 6 hours at the register before we could enter, the place was packed. We had great seats, costed a total of 718 pound Sterling, but it was money well spend. What really stands out to me in this clip are the following: 1:04 you can see how Wigsworth sets up the board for the brilliant 'Compton-tant' which follows later on. 1:15 referee Jillbritton puts in all his weight as a leading man, ending the discussion even before it starts. 1:43 that run of Mulroney still brings goosebumps. My father went crazy and shouted, 'look, Mulroney is going for the kantoots!' What a game, what a day!

[@rikspring]

Best comment.👏👏😁

[@arnoldbissen9921]

cost, spent

[@marcoanonymous8434]

@@arnoldbissen9921 thank you. I stand corrected.

[@longday3607]

I can't stop laughing ,"referee is checking the doors"

[@TheoBrixtonTheKid]

The confidence in which Mulroney hits that lawn shot is pure skill at it's best. The timing of the ring fringing sent chills up my spine. In all my years I have never seen it done so smoothly. I thought "there's no fuckin way they're going to execute this threesome, let alone with such grace" unbelievable. I thought I had seen it all, until that riveting foot swept, how anyone can possess such natural talent eludes me. Well done chaps, well done.

[@heinrichlunge5356]

heh heh Mulroney

[@TonyQKing]

I say! Those chaps, with their nerves of steel, could have jolly well sent the ruddy Bosch packing at Dunkirk! Or had they been with Nelson, bashing the froggies at Trafalgar! Even with General Gordon at Khartoum! It would have been the Mahdis that lost their heads!

[@1982kinger]

Tony Q. King You're a better man than I Gungadin

[@Ezyasnos]

Yes, yes but what a kerfuffle! I would have gone for the Marlborough handshake toppled with a strike of four, holding the racket on top, this opens up the greens as to oppose a possible piglet run.

[@TastyChickenWing]

Ezyasnos you tried

[@SaltyChip]

3:20 the way he fringed the ring was breath taking and the sport was never the same after that!! Brilliant play!

[@svenjansen2134]

Absolute game- changer!

[@chrisenghart8786]

I've watched it so many times, and yet I still can't believe how triffled that smooth grass kissing fringe was. Oh the talent! This sport never ceases to amaze me. Only the best can perform like that.

[@M1537-y6u]

What a great Dutch parody on English sports!!! Tears in my eyes!!!

[@nlx78]

They also made a great one in the style of German crime shows. Especially one called Derrick for being sooooo slow (in the 90s). Opening shot is seeing a Mercedes going onto a parkinglot that is empty, but it takes like over a minute to get it on a good parking spot. They didn't know much German, so they improvised half Dutch half German words.

[@nlx78]

Oh, it was a parody on Tatort (crimescene) and called it Tampert, the Mercedes is a BMW too, my memory :( But maybe it was still based on the other show(s) being around and like we had BBC1 and 2 in a standard cable package, we also got a bunch of German channels airing these at night. Here's that parody: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJ21naujhq5_rq8

[@svenjansen2134]

Derrick en Tatort was verplicht in de 70s.

[@ZAOUWV]

I am Dutch and have to say that it!s hilarious . Their best sketch . Watching BBC on a summer afternoon …

[@drunkensailor112]

Can you imagine how much fun these guys had coming up with this and filming it? Must've been the best saturday afternoon any lad ever had.

[@zigisamblak]

Like a lot of their work most of it was probably improvised on the spot. That gave their sketches a very natural and exciting feel, you never knew what was going to happen and you could tell they were trying their hardest not to burst out in laughter most of the time.

[@shahinarya]

Like test cricket it probably took more than an afternoon!

[@svenjansen2134]

Imagine the blooper reel.. There are blooper scenes from other sketches on here I believe. Debiteuren/Crediteuren was an office parody. Also very funny.

[@davealbrecht12]

Here's an overview for you chaps: Mulroney - rings 3 - rambles 1 - grassoofs - 1 Wigsworth - rings 1 - rambles 2 - grassoofs - 0 Winxler - rings 1 - rambles 0 - grassoofs - 0 Mankels nill - twice screen - three draft - pretty tough with two marks on the blow, left wide

[@Gol.D]

That's why I love watching Mulroney, such a high performer

[@PurpleChickenTV]

It should have ended four draft, but thats what you get in these conditions

[@dadsongs]

@@PurpleChickenTV Do you mind if I publish your findings? Good! ;) "With every 5 point change in relative humidity, the chance to lay 2 grassoofs is doubled." That was brilliant. I don't know how you arrived at that, but that was brilliant.

[@TheCmac1966]

Dave Albrecht But that would make sense. They favor giving the ring to Mulroney when they are focusing on red or green binkers.

[@zibberebbiz]

Mulroney is an animal on his good days

[@kieran216]

This is still one of my all time favourite videos...

[@lisanders11]

I need to agree.

[@Shaun-tz6qe]

The gibberish is perfect! It could be applied to just about anything, and yet it still has a very British ring to it.

[@karlmadsen3179]

ShadowWhelp True. Executed with the same idiotic self-importance of golf or cricket. The whisper is the key.

[@Prillaquatjaa]

Best part of it is that they're Dutch :)

[@klaxoncow]

I like how they swap the pipe around between them, implying that the pipe smoking is actually part of the sport somehow.

[@pietjejantje4514]

The commentary is from a real cricket match.

[@AudieHolland]

Yess...

[@hallquiche]

I haven't seen fringing that smooth since Sir Edmund Cattelton perfectly angled the grass at the '66 regional championships to clinch the Wolverhampton Wanglers a treble for that year on the hallowed turf of St. Richard's court. It's a shame that Mulroney couldn't quite strategise the yellow pins on the barter board accordingly. Otherwise a sublime performance and an incredible spectacle that we all had the privilege to see.

[@VincentvandenAkker]

Second half was ashtonising. The stroke at the grass swipe in the nick of time. You don't see that everyday.

[@uncletony6210]

I can do that shit.

[@christopherbedford9897]

Yeah, thank god for that.

[@dadsongs]

Couldn't do that when I was stitcher from Rainpool (circa 1997). I know people hate to hear all that "back in the day" foolishness. But, if they caught you swiping, even with your foot, you'd take a tarney and hope for a blind alley!

[@neural_jam]

It's becoming more popular since the rules on transitive stirch swiping changed after the 2012 Championships to prevent any more injuries like those suffered by Charlie 'Drubber' Jacobs. Not career ending, but he was out of action for two seasons (9 months, give or take).

[@dadsongs]

For those who know, Jacobs coached a bit during his convalescence -- most notably with Shottingham. He also began work on his book. Great read, except he inexplicably defends a move he called "trawling", which was transitive stirch swiping in disguise -- with the exception that his version was not done in a squat. Thanks, and cheers!

[@mrneutral8423]

The one thing that impressed me about the full-berg is that they managed to pass off a green vs yellow on the low play. Incredible.

[@dadsongs]

I'm always a bit superstitious about this. I never like to go yellow in low play. It's just a quirk I have.

[@mrneutral8423]

​@@dadsongs I think that's a healthy superstition.

[@NicolasBoyce]

@@dadsongs It’s because at low level play we mess up our traffolds. Having low yellows kills the board if lawn play is not up to par. Only fools imitate the pro’s, we say at our club in Hawkswick.

[@eliwaltzmusic]

Sometimes, often, in the middle of the night when the despair of life sets in, I return to this video and it brings me joy

[@donathandorko]

This show NAILED IT. (From a Brit.)

[@thurstonclevehicks]

Brilliant! I love the soft, whispery voice...

[@markauckland666]

its rare to see such a well played match, it highlights the sheer brilliance of the game, a masterfull trio, did think that the referee was a little lenient on a couple of occasions, but i think he just wanted to let the game flow.

[@windridr66]

It’s always great to come back to this video. It will never get old.

[@1982kinger]

Bleeding shame what happened to Mulroney at the 6 Nations Cup in 1992. Now he's competing for Ireland after the All England Rings Club gave him the boot for trafficking cocaine in South Africa.

[@wishcraft4u2]

Yes quite, who then watched the innocent grace of youth in Mulroney's pace as he skimmed the fringe off Carthwarfle's twofold and can honestly say they suspected performance narcotics at work. And did those feet in overtime walk upon Englands threelawns green and was the footstroke swing a quarter on barter-board's wide screen! The man had the footswing tread of a gazelle back then. Poor fellow spends more swings wobbling in the leftovers than on the lawn nowadays. Pinching for a stroke indeed! Of course the entire league hasn't been the same since the Stanley Unwin-Hoffer incident back that summer in '94. How I do remember that day... A bruise upon a blow. You really must excuse my sentiment. That's all nostalgia now.

[@1982kinger]

+wishcraft4u2 Indeed old boy! Must say watch out for the expanded format for the 2018 world rings test championships. Our national team is looking good. my prediction is that the Dominion of Canada will prevail over British Guyana

[@kuba7543]

Stephen King Well, don't you feel stupid, now that the Dominion of Canada didn't even qualify for the pre-ringers while British Guyana along with the Windward Islands are taking the Dish Division by storm. DoC should have ditched Catlock a long time ago. You know it, I know it. You can't blame everything on McTarder's pawn settlement.

[@RobJaskula]

I saw Mulroney at the European Indoor Championship qualifiers in Dublin a year or so ago, and maybe it was Rose coloured glasses or the level of competition, but he was fliggering like a young man and had all the panache of his younger days. It seemed to give a three ring advantage to his rink before the opponents had stepped up to tribb. The man still has a charisma and gravitas that can't be taught, and does heaps of work promoting rings in non-traditional countries.

[@Whitecroc]

He got what he deserved. The rules *clearly* state that all cocaine transport happen only during Lent. The judges might have been willing to look the other way throughout Easter, but he brazenly disrespected the sport by moving cocaine during *Whitsun*.

[@Videokeizah]

Back in the nineties I sent a videotape to the BBC. They had to see this. Never heard anything back. Thank God for youtube, now anybody can watch this.

[@chriswarburtonbrown1566]

Absolutely brilliant! Especially the commentary, which is intense and focussed and yet tells us nothing at all. They even followed the rule that one commentator must be called Ted.

[@justacommenter]

Gosh I still come back to this to relive the memories of that magical day so many years later. Almost a perfect game, shame about the short overtrip swept. Still, unbelievable what they achieved

[@GtheMVP]

As proud Canadians, we always pull for Mulroney, and not just because he's the cousin of our former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He was brilliant here, at his absolute peak. 4:15 watch him hurdle the flag. That's how you get a red, green, and two yellows with a Charlie Marker.

[@jamescullis7768]

As a Brit, I feel I have been watching this sport my entire life 😂

[@Navportxl]

As a Canadian, I feel that I’ve missed out on sport that I could have made a name for myself.

[@TVisTheRetina]

I remember buying this match on pay per view. Best $85 I ever spent!

[@chrisenghart8786]

Cheap indeed for such a game!

[@nikwalsh435]

Fringing the ring always brings tears to my eyes.

[@rjallenbach1]

If I ever own a bar this is casually getting played next to the college ball 🏈 and MLB ⚾️ TV 🤣🤣🤣

[@TobyBeresfordRise]

I think we should actually make this game and challenge the Dutch to an international.

[@commente]

brilliant

[@cr1pps]

In true English fashion, we'd lose at our own sport we invented

[@otterspocket2826]

@@cr1pps - That's ok, we'll just invent another one we can lead the world in until somebody else figures out how to play it. We've been doing it for centuries, old boy - that's the real 'game'.

[@SenorMarcelo]

With hopefully a referee that doesn't make questionable decisions as in the Euros semi final 2024.

[@Schokland2007]

Great idea. The game should last for weeks with scores like 1645-56 and everybody taking it very serious but no clue what they are doing.

[@forestdweller5581]

Onbegrijpelijk dat voetbal nog populair is terwijl we zulke mooie sport hebbe in ons land!

[@TheBillyboyb]

The fringing of the ring was absolutely splendid. Best ring fringing I've witnessed since Tiffin

[@user-hi4sm3ig5j]

My school hasn't won the Great Little Whimsington upon-Swishwiddle Inter-School Lawn-Ring derby vs. St. Smytherwickes for 37 years, and now I can see why. Watching the similarities between them and the professionals at work goes to show how advanced they were at the highly complex jibbler maneuver.

[@thofmeijer]

And we haven't even taken into consideration that... to really fringe the grass in those conditions... right on the mark... is beyond perfection. Emery got that right. And I have to say, personally, I haven't seen much of that since.

[@ReddoFreddo]

Why does the referee never check the fringing? What makes a good fringe? Why fringe in the first place?

[@supermatt87]

@@ReddoFreddo Oh my goodness. This guy doesn't even know the purpose of fringing? *scoff*

[@wishcraft4u2]

Who then watched the innocent grace of youth in Mulroney's pace as he skimmed the fringe off Carthwarfle's twofold and can honestly say they suspected performance narcotics at work. And did those feet in overtime walk upon Englands threelawns green and was the footstroke swing a quarter on barter-board's wide screen! The man had the footswing tread of a gazelle back then. Poor fellow spends more swings wobbling in the leftovers than on the lawn nowadays. Pinching for a stroke indeed! Of course the entire league hasn't been the same since the Stanley Unwin-Hoffer incident back that summer in '94. How I do remember that day... A bruise upon a blow. You really must excuse my sentiment. That's all nostalgia now.

[@1982kinger]

Dude I once took a 89 mph fastball off the shoulder. That hurt like a mofo. Then I drove home in my Chevy truck and ate might fine

[@MrTubularBalls]

The brooding and blissful halcyon days! And did those feet in ancient time, go for the footswep, very fine left over for two for three?

[@uncletony6210]

typical Mulroney fan. graceful? yes, but of course you overlook his oh so many flaws. dude was highly overrated and his fan base annoys me to no end! smh

[@qedsteve]

Steve Slaughter Mulroney's lawn shot (0:28) is wondrous to behold. Harkens back to the legacy champs' in '53 when Gladwrymple took the ring and absolutely set the lawn alight despite the last moment substitution of Derbyshire who was known to be quite marginal at the critical fringing! The trio absolutely pulled a blinder with the victory over Wings... ahh, now but that's history.

[@nickmary1234]

Came for the comments, was not disappointed, pure gold.

[@lottimcgregors5550]

Omg my husband is British. This absolutely slayed me!! Could not stop laughing, tears streaming!!! HILARIOUS!!! Sooo true! Love this! Thank you for making this. I have not laughed that hard in ages! 😂

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

Actually this Dutch television. 😂🤣

[@dimitries]

This is not a real sport right

[@spodergibbs5088]

@@dimitries it’s a real sport, but like cricket only a few nations play it

[@cedricchase]

Mulroney - best of all time really. That fringing was PERFECT.

[@sirvidia]

I always knew the Dutch got us. Lots of people hate us but some do at least get us. Well done Jiskefet. I must have laughed at this a hundred times

[@TheReactor8]

The Dutch don’t hate the British at all. Can’t be, when you use British humor to mock British sports.

[@ThisIsBarcode]

Mulroney, in the form of his life and proving to be the best pound for pound pitjibber on the planet. What a time to be alive.

[@Karll541]

He makes it look easy

[@herpaderp1219]

Still one of the best games ever played. A 3-1 score right after the second break. Just brilliant! Dont see that kind of scores now a days.

[@Robkinggozer]

Ah the good old days, when they still fringed the rings. Nowadays with the artificial grass and all, the game is not the same. I don't care how many trefolds they kick in one game now. Trefolds for show, fringing for pros imo.

[@jeroengoubet]

Yes indeed. This awfull American Astroturf from their American Footballfields all over!

[@Robkinggozer]

@@jeroengoubet A shame that the competition won't be finished this season due to Corona, Mulroney had a real chance to finally nick the title this year, in the fall of his career. His foot swip hasn't been the same since his injury.

[@otterspocket2826]

Under the original rules no points were awarded for a trefold, it just earned the chance to go for a ring fringe.

[@Robkinggozer]

@@otterspocket2826 Indeed, that was a different time. Players were not millionairs back then, they often had side jobs even. Although I do think the game flows better under the current rules, it rewards bold plays.

[@jakobmarkwith]

Are true work of art. The hobble squoaf was beautiful along with the triple scoop. MULRONEY. What else do I need to say. This man is a true master at his craft and can’t wait to watch his next match. Johans village here we come.

[@OldScratchJohnson]

Mulroney with beautiful form on the trippit. Shame he didn't Jolly Roger the rounder in time to get the scribbler

[@wishcraft4u2]

Yes in hindsight it's astounding how naturally the swinger would parry the rounder a Jolly Marker on the barterboard over a possible Roger on the threelawn, jolly or otherwise. Of course back then a ring was mahogany rather than teak and the mere suggestion of making contact on the evening of the fringe was unheard of. The game has changed over the years, hasn't it? Naught on the blow would sure have earned him a Rogering-Off in the leftovers with this umpire.

[@1982kinger]

+wishcraft4u2 Man Alive! I've seen matches in Zimbabwe and India where they used the exact same rings that Lord Cuntington supplied them in 1879

[@munchyman3]

But thank god we've moved on from that. Could you imagine someone traffle a Jolly Marker with those rings with todays fringes, it wouldn't exactly make a trippit valid would it?

[@dadsongs]

Take a look again. He sold out his marmie by screening when they were only down 4-2. I've personally talked to Mulroney about why he does this. He says it's just to prevent a glonnis pair -- which I'd take any day! Go lap in that situation and you go home.

[@jzkramer]

The Dutch have always had a very fine appreciation of English Sport, especially the sport of English tourists getting pissed and stoned in a Dutch Cafe and wandering out into the bicycle lanes.

[@scottinsd1]

I feel like I'm watching a Monty Python skit while on acid. Utterly hysterical.

[@S.Y.S.64738]

These guys are absolute pros! Best match I've seen in years. Jolly good.

[@bellsTheorem1138]

Amazing attempt at the bucksford on the right swing. Brilliant I must say. Brilliant.

[@MaistoHelix]

The rain ended, and there was 2 mights on the blow, and just 3 white's in the first papers on the left off The "wheels- off Brings" :We don't see much of that during the High Summer.. 0:45: 2 Olders Olders over, dont see that every day.. a little wide though. but they got up to 4, forcing the Referee to move them up to "the butterboard", 3 to go... 2 wide and 3 singe, and leaving Johnny Marker for the White Screen, that's quite a bold move.. Referee moving them to Robson's 4-3, another 3 holes, that's quite a blow, but a good decision. 1:42: MullRowney saved it again, just a knicker for first quarter, after he sends off Johnny Marker for the white screen ..very nice.. The short move, was a stroke and a Traffled, bucket to the leftovers...and because Mullrowney made the White Screen they got the footswep for the first quarter, especially after that superb fringe! Does anyone have the other 453 tries i can watch??

[@AmeyKhalatkar]

Even when you know the whole thing is just gibberish, 3:26 triggers a genuine urge to know what is he so pleased about.

[@allws9683]

well, I have cricket on... (bbc naturally) And it is gibberish ! 😅 Including the commentors

[@otterspocket2826]

He just fringed the ring, and you wonder what he's so pleased about? Tell us you don't understand the game without telling us you don't understand the game.

[@protopigeon]

Some of the best fringing I've ever seen, especially from a trio. Bravo!

[@Dortmund-i6g]

?

[@protopigeon]

The trio could have encountered big frottage without that finging @@Dortmund-i6g

[@jay5807]

This makes more sense than cricket

[@mikehannon5810]

I have to admit my heart was in my mouth when the ring went short - Mulroney saved the day - again - by going straight to the board! The only thing you can do in that situation!

[@svenjansen2134]

Sign of genius.

[@RimshotsandNamaste]

10 times later still makes me chuckles!

[@Pauluz_The_Web_Gnome]

Ik heb deze sport nooit begrepen, bedankt voor de opheldering!!!!

[@TPspunk]

Classic match. Unforgettable.

[@youseeit916]

this makes slightly more sense to me than cricket does

[@klaxoncow]

Cricket's just baseball with only one base. Played incredibly slowly.

[@user-lx3xf9xt8g]

Baseball is potentially the worst sport in the world

[@SvenTviking]

KlaxonCow A Cricket test match may take 3 days. But Baseball lasts far, far, far longer. For a start a Baseball “hitter” takes a geological Eon just to hit the ball once, what with all the practice swings, spitting, wiggling the bat around, the pitcher spotting someone trying to steal base, more spitting, stick wiggling. Then the pitcher actually pitches! The hitter swings, misses, IT’S A STRIKE! But no it isn’t, it was a no ball. Cue another 10 minutes of stick wiggling, spitting, practice swings. This goes on for like, centuries, until the hitter gets struck out, walks to first base ‘cos the pitcher is shit, or amazingly, the hitter hits the ball!!!! Which goes behind..., Once in a blue moon, the ball gets hit into out field, and even rarer, a home run is scored. In that time, a cricket batsman has scored 100 runs, because they aren’t allowed to fuck about and there isn’t like 200 adverts for pile ointment every hour.

[@propagandaextirpation9295]

One could argue that soccer is watching a bunch of folks run around for several goals often less

[@sajalmishra9831]

@@SvenTviking A cricket test match is played for a period of 5 days not 3

[@jaysimone6885]

The buck foot on the right swing is absolutely legendary.

[@patrickbritt6318]

I remember the friendly when mulroney hit 3 knicker on a 5 quarter. 3 reds on the white helped with the recovery from the stroke. what an amazing game.

[@hynjus001]

I know it was a friendly but the doors weren't probably oiled. Very amateurish of the groundsman, even for a place like Pembertonshire.

[@artje123]

Patrick Britt Recovery from the stroke ;) this clip is in so many ways hilarious! I think that’s the main strength of it.

[@jbroeze4834]

@@artje123 dsetfh yttfuijyrbbbkkmm v. llmkkjhggyytyuyuooccf

[@LeighABrett]

Genius observational comedy and attention to detail - Bravo gents, Bravo!

[@aleratz]

One of the best pieces of comedy ever

[@MaartenVrijman]

Referee checking the doors...

[@dadsongs]

That's just intimidation, really. Have you seen the Japanese play? Never any of that. Peeking would be downright dishonorable ;).

[@munchyman3]

@@dadsongs Yeah, but the way some of Japanese players fringes the rings are quite unorthodox if you ask me. I'm not sure they would allow it in certain fields in the UK.

[@dadsongs]

@@munchyman3 We're also not acknowledging the 象 in the room: The Japanese use a ring that is almost 4 ounces heavier. I'm sure you know the story about when the Japanese team was trying to get their rings through customs at Heathrow: Despite the horror of the Japanese players, the custom official took the rings out of the case. After what seemed to be a fortnight, he exclaimed, "If these ain't bilge hoops, me name ain't Cooper!" It turns out that his name was Officer Martin Cooper! The moral: Even a customs officer could tell the difference, or so the story goes. Even if the story is not true, the fact remains that a Japanese ring is going to flay to the mat every time Jimbo Gruntington's go cropsie.

[@SocksWithSandals]

That was some of the best grass stroking anticipating ringfall I've seen in Jiskefet, certainly since the switch to colour TV in 1970.

[@HenkWolbers]

Marvelous display of skill. Was the absolute pinnacle in lawn ball history. Thanks for uploading Jiskefet. Remember watching this 36 hour epic match over 5 days building up to the moment that Mulroney swept the ring resulting in this perfect fringe ending. Watching this brings goosebumps up my spine again. I know some chaps love a nice game of rugger; occasionaly I take a look, but mostly that's just a bore to me. Very curious. Is there anybody who has footage of the '76 game in Colchester when Mulroney just got out of uni and hit the 6 back hindsighter that left everybody flabbergasted and amazed?

[@powderedground78]

Oh my, Colchester is my home town. We still speak about that game now. Local folklore.

[@TachiTekmo]

Aye, the '76 Games. Refs started checking doors after that blow out! 🤣

[@bigbobear_tv2917]

Deze humor is tegenwoordig ver te zoeken hahaha! Hilarisch!

[@magnusgrande4323]

I say gents, the threelawn here is absolutely not fit for fringing the ring into a wide jollyton. Mulroney's form was excellent in that regard, taking the fourside into a threelance there is an utter display of brilliance and skill. Well done chap, well done!

[@dadsongs]

Okay, then. Up for a challenge? What Gall League bested in fringing in 1995?

[@mrneutral8423]

Love the into, just two marks on the blow. Absolute class.

[@jeanniewarken5822]

Utterly hilarious.... all credit to the dutch for getting it perfect.. our dutch cousins can take the piss out of us anytime when they do it this good... Wonderful stuff!!!

[@SenorMarcelo]

Check out Jiskefet darts, a cracker too!

[@benbelgam]

Jolly good show, Mulroney! He is without a whim of doubt the greatest sportsman to have ever come out of North-West Umberton!

[@arthurlecomte8950]

This is a Dutch sketch from the 90s. Since the 80s it has been possible to receive international television channels in the Netherlands. Sometimes people zipped a bit during the day and passed a British channel, where they would occasionally broadcast a match of some weird English sport no one could understand but the English. This sketch is based on that.

[@terminalfrost3645]

technically the english don't understand them either lol

[@brianm2881]

When we're talking about English sports that no-one understands, are we basically talking about cricket, lawn bowls and snooker?

[@johnkelly3549]

@@brianm2881 Polo, croquet. Ballroom Dancing. Rugby has a few weird rules. The Monarchy.

[@JasperJanssen]

@@johnkelly3549 darts. That thing with the rocks on the ice.

[@EFreD-ed4ds]

@@JasperJanssen Curling is Scottish.

[@TransportGeekery]

The pace and patter of the commentary is just *chef’s kiss*

[@stevecooksley]

So glad one of the best ring fringes I've ever seen was captured on camera. Please end this lockdown so I can dust the doors down and get out there once again.

[@twenty5marv]

I was very nearly selected to represent my county back in 96, frotchingchestershire. But in the last 16th of play I missed the shraddle at 4th toe point and lost the whole skimmage to the opposing front rateman. Heck of an experience though, was very tight during the whole test.

[@elmanitasdeplomo]

I was a little kid when this came out. But I love that this shows that the Dutch and British humour is not that different. Some Jiskefet stuff might be Monty Python inspired and I think it would be pure flattery.

[@davidnelson5381]

I totally get it now! Rolling the grass over to get extra rotations is the key. Look at his focus. Tuesday's league night will be epic!!!

[@ThirstyTunaTaco]

Mulroney always hung out with George Best and sadly passed away in 2018.. R.I.P

[@gertvink]

I'll never forget when this show came up one Sunday night, later that night we watched an episode of Inspector Morse in which they -believe it or not- practised EXACTLY THE SAME Sports (well that was cricket, off course) as in the Jiskefet episode! And Morse's coworker Louis and Jiskefet's Kees Prins do have a strong resemblance, especially in those white sweaters and outfits, and when I saw the Morse episode, I just couldn't stop laughing anymore😂😂😂

[@wolf_gen2130]

Oh Dude i love this sport

[@chavruta2000]

Love how he licks his fingers in preparation for kicking the ring.

[@jasonpaulelder]

I was merely looking up a Cricket Match and found this; and, I must say - it's just about the funniest thing I've seen for some time. Many thanks to whomever created and/or uploaded it - you provided a much-needed laugh.

[@MrTubularBalls]

This skit was made by dutch comedy triumvirate Jiskefet (Frisian for garbage bin), over 20 years ago. The best comedy is timeless, I guess.

[@Aemond2024]

Jason Paul Elder Jiskefet. Its a Dutch comedy show

[@henkdezwart9420]

Still one of the best games ever broadcasted.

[@DarrenGargette]

This is top drawer comedy. Love it.

[@yuppys]

I was channel switching at the time when I fell into this, literally took me 2 minutes before I realized it were the Jiskefet boys and it was a parody!! Brilliant stuff!

[@WickedRibbon]

Genuinely curious if somebody could create a ruleset for all this madness to resemble the logical flow of an actual sport.

[@wtfyman]

Check out chessboxing

[@Pseudo99]

It's called Cricket.

[@stefanc4520]

You mean you don't know how to play? Well young lad sit down cause you're in for a treat!

[@craiga2002]

Its just like 43 man squamish. Do, do try it.

[@christopherbedford9897]

Aussie rules football mate.

[@Attillee]

This is amazing.

[@GodSavetheQueenII]

Incredible to think that Mulroney actually represented Nutland in Mornington Crescent at U17 level. He could easily have picked that as his sport and we’d simply never have seen ring fringing or foot swepts like this.

[@kimifur]

Did he really? Well, good grief, I thought I knew everything there was to know about Mornington Crescent. I must admit, though, I'm much more familiar with it at senior level. I would love to see his technique; do you know if he ever made full use of Trumpington's Variations when they were permitted? I always feel like that produces the most instances of Nid and, therefore, the most exciting games.

[@Diepvries11]

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT - 1990 LAWN CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDDINGWORTH HALL - (COMMENTATORS: DAVID EMERY & TED WANSWORTH) EMERY - E WANSWORTH - W E - Well it's ah, stopped raining. The players back on the lawn. W - Yes they've got to walk… for just two marks on the blow. And just three whites… on the first greyvus, on the left arm of the little wheels on the brings. E - Yes, we've seen not much of that, Ted Ref. - Two-Nil E - And there goes…. a little wide. W - But very nice for the two old as old as Ozenbob. E - Yes Ref. - Two-one. Two-five. Tripled. Call-back. Trefled E - Yes well they're up to four now W - Yeah… Referee moving them up to the barter board, he's got to move these yellows on the blettle-bean. Ref. Two for one. Three to go. E - Changing the pattern again. Two white and three singe. W - And a left jolly marker for the widescreen… Ah I see, Referee moving him up to the lupsough of the four-three in on the treelons. Ref. - Two-Nil. E - Looking very confident there… Yes move about very fast, and there's… he's just in time, just in the record. W - (Chuckles) Very nice indeed, Mulroney… Yes he's done it again. Just a knicker for a first quarter E - And he's off now. W - Referee checking the doors. E - There goes!… Just a little too short W - (Chuckles) But he's going to the board you see, it's a two block E - Changing the pattern very much. Look how he moves…he goes up, comes down. Ref. - Two. A one. Trefled. Wabzoot, here the gobstone. E - But it's a strow. W - Yes and a trefled for him… Bucking off to the left overs. E - Changing… Well, we've seen that before, Ted. W - Yes… Ah, they're making a square hole now E - Going for the footswep. W - Yes… Very fine left over for two for three. Baxter - Alright, fire in a fup. E - And look how he fringes the ring there, I've never seen anyone fringe it quite like that before, it's amazing. W - Yes, he's very pleased with himself. E - Hope we can see that again. W - Ah, beautifully executed there. E - There look, see what he does to the grass, there he's just in time, just in the nick of time there. It's amazing. W - See what he's doing now, going for the block foot on the right swing. E - Yes, yes… And they're going for the threesome. Ref. - Two-Nil. E - Very well executed. W - Typical borderline, just over the hips of the grass, and throwing them down nicely the three of them, cowing up through the ring, for bolswing and upholtheis. E - Yes it's right on the mark. Ref. - Two. One. One to go. Tree One W - He's going for the red and the greens, and a yellow to finish it off Ref. - Come along. Righto. Bravo. Troop it back. E - Yes, W - Well, E - Yes. W - Yes indeed. E - Yes, they're off. - END OF TRANSCRIPT -

[@leesmapman4764]

This needs to be stickied.