The Annual Phil and Paul Thread!

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  • evil_breakfast
    evil_breakfast Posts: 465
    Liggett claimed yesterday that a lot of people watch the (televised) Le Tour for the chateau footage!?!
    You're the light wiping out my batteries; You're the cream in my airport coffee's.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    If you put "chateau footage" into Google translate it comes out as meaning "s**t commentary" FACT
  • brookter
    brookter Posts: 51
    I've not seen this one mentioned, yet. Paul Sherwen, a few days ago (can't remember which stage): "He has an impressive trackground in back riding..."

    Commenting must be a very difficult job, though, and I couldn't do it.

    As for the constant repetition of what's happening, isn't some, at least, of that because they never know which bits will feature in highlights later? If they don't repeat the description regularly (e.g. so-and-sos in the breakaway...), wouldn't clips would have to be longer, or a voice-over used more often to provide the context?
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    Yesterday, a magnet was mentioned. This magic magnet was bandied by the escapees and dragged Sagan up the hill and back....

    Is this a new one? The start of a new and beautiful liggettism?
  • aspender
    aspender Posts: 96
    evil_breakfast wrote:
    Liggett claimed yesterday that a lot of people watch the (televised) Le Tour for the chateau footage!?!

    I thought I heard "a lot of people watch the tour for the cows" followed by an explanation that the brown ones have probably just been born.

    Another chuckle from yesterday from Paul: "As the French say, he is going around those corners in squares"
  • evil_breakfast
    evil_breakfast Posts: 465
    Y'know, I'm sorely tempted to post the IRL of this thread to Liggett's Twitter feed.
    *Wonders if Cleat/Aggie/other BB'ers have beaten me to it*
    You're the light wiping out my batteries; You're the cream in my airport coffee's.
  • Squaggles
    Squaggles Posts: 875
    Great interview with Phil on the ITV site , I'll always remember him for Channel 4 in the 80's and my introduction to the sport , I wish he'd retire though
    The UCI are Clowns and Fools
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Squaggles wrote:
    Great interview with Phil on the ITV site , I'll always remember him for Channel 4 in the 80's and my introduction to the sport , I wish he'd retire though

    That sort of reminds me of a Willie Nelson interview I watched once. He was asked when he thought he might retire and his answer was something to the effect of "All I do is sing, play guitar, and play golf. What's to retire from?"
  • sportvan
    sportvan Posts: 105
    I believe Phil will retire this year if bradly wiggins wins the tour. He has already hinted this at least once in the ITV4 show.
  • TheYorkshireMan
    TheYorkshireMan Posts: 92
    evil_breakfast wrote:
    Liggett claimed yesterday that a lot of people watch the (televised) Le Tour for the chateau footage!?!
    A survey a few years back found that seeing the scenery was the biggest single reason people in France still watch the Tour. Other reasons included 'Out of childhood nostalgia' and 'Because it passes quite near my house'. Just 16% said that they watched it for the competition.

    The above survey was cited in an article in the Sunday Times by Paul Kimmage, who also noted that in another survey of French viewers 90% of those asked agreed with the statement 'Doping has destroyed everything, I feel betrayed' and 85% with the statement 'Because of doping, I no longer believe in the results of the Tour de France'.
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    I liked it today when they were talking about eagles and Phil said "yes we've seen a lot of big birds here in the Pyrenees"
  • pepelepew_2724
    pepelepew_2724 Posts: 9
    MrTapir wrote:
    I liked it today when they were talking about eagles and Phil said "yes we've seen a lot of big birds here in the Pyrenees"
    That was crying out for a cut away shot to a chunky lady as he finished the sentence.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    LOL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Qweo-sqHQ4
    Contador is the Greatest
  • rdt
    rdt Posts: 869
    frenchfighter wrote:
    LOL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Qweo-sqHQ4

    Nice :lol:
  • keyser__soze
    keyser__soze Posts: 2,067
    Paul clearly doesn't read the Inner Ring:
    Paul wrote:
    This is where Eugène Christophe lost the tour due to breaking his bike, visiting a blacksmith and being disqualified for outside assistance
    inrng wrote:
    Don’t: repeat the myth of Eugène Christophe breaking his forks on the descent of the Tourmalet and then getting them repaired in a blacksmith, only to lose the Tour that year because if the rules said riders had to be independent and not use outside help for repairs, a boy was operating the bellows for the fire and this meant help. Christophe was docked three minutes for this extra help, a blink of an eyelid in the days when the margin of victory in the Tour was huge; he lost the Tour for other reasons.
    "Mummy Mummy, when will I grow up?"
    "Don't be silly son, you're a bloke, you'll never grow up"
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    frenchfighter wrote:
    LOL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Qweo-sqHQ4

    Superb! :lol:

    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    LOL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Qweo-sqHQ4

    Superb! :lol:
    A caraf too many at lunch?
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • pepelepew_2724
    pepelepew_2724 Posts: 9
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    LOL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Qweo-sqHQ4

    Superb! :lol:
    A caraf too many at lunch?

    F@ck knows!
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    Did I hear the other day "He's going to follow this stage to the finish" ?
    +++++++++++++++++++++
    we are the proud, the few, Descendents.

    Panama - finally putting a nail in the economic theory of the trickle down effect.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    "People have to understand the massive achievement of winning the Tour by riding for three weeks over the typography of France."

    [caveat: might have been bad microphone placement]
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    If I sat and listened to you all day or you to me, am sure we would say stuff each other would not find interesting or even just stupid. I sat and listened to 80s music in a pub last night while watching the last 2 hrs of TDF mountain stage. I don't find commentary hugely interesting but Kelly is someone I will listen to, but no doubt forum people will take issue with him too. Stop complaining and turn down the volume!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • SaddleBags
    SaddleBags Posts: 12
    For those that enjoy those "Liggett-isms", a couple of little gems from the man yesterday...

    They were talking about if Wiggins was still in yellow after the day's stage
    "You won't find anybody who doesn't believe he won't win the Tour de France"
    Not what most people would believe and presumably the complete opposite of what he meant!

    Then talking about how he was fed up with seeing the "boring" team tactic that never works (the "one-two" where a rider goes off the front and waits for his team mate to join him in a break a bit later), only for Sherwen to subtly remind him that's exactly how the then current stage leader (and eventual winner) got to be in that position :roll:
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Phil blasts the Olympics:

    http://road.cc/content/news/62547-olymp ... hill-again

    He's a blazer & tie kind of guy, so for someone like that BMX and MTB represent alien cultures. I agree with him about the butchering of the track events, especially the women's races, but it's the IOC's fault for limiting the total number of cycling events, not MTB or BMX.
    Un uomo solo al commando

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