h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...having done my first match report for Radio London last week, I just rang up the Sports Editor there to see if they had any matches for me in the next couple of weeks.

The response was "Didn't I ask you to do Barnet for me this Saturday?"

I'm holding down the day job on a late shift this Saturday... but I think it means I'm going to be asked back!

Underhill, here I come!

Congratulations....

(Remember us when you are doing the world cup finals and get a couple of extra tickets, eh? )

congratulations! i think we've all dreamed as kids of doing what you are; good luck and don't get a big head.

Get on Six! Goodskills, see your return to London is panning out nicely.

Yorshire lower leagues piffle, your near the big league now .

B.T.W. What do you think of the Greens this season? I have hardly been due to a change in my working patterns but it seems to be looking ok to me.

Congratulations - it's just a matter of time before you're famous...

Sorry, what am I saying - you already are...

Well done Six!

Nice one that man.

Yeah, good effort six, sounds like something with a lot of potential.



sprout

So it's a sheepskin coat on the Christmas list then

Thanks for the kind words, everyone

S'okay.

'Course what you really need's a catch phrase, - something to sign off with, or something you always say...

Big Ron's grabbed Early Doors, but what about "and after that little to do he'll be taking Roy Keane's name off his Christmas Card List."

or signing off with This was N06 - talking football.

PS If you happen to bump into Jon Gaunt please give him a slap from me

I was watching that Peter Kay thing on Channel 4 last week, and there was a catchphrase they were using - ding dang do, or something like that. And it rang a sort of bell, and eventually I nailed it down.

He's a Bolton fan, and I remember seeing on Fantasy Football League years back when it was any good and on the BBC (not that the two things are connected there, mind) footage of them winning the playoffs bak in the mid 90s and their club commentator saying something very much like that.

I'd *love* to be responsible for something like that.

Thinking back, the genius that is Sid Waddell said something about Christmas cards - one of his heroes was Eddie Waring, who I vaguely remember from It's A Knockout and from his popularisation of "Up n' under!" but otherwise I'm too young to quite remember properly. Anyway, Sid was saying one of his favourite things about Eddie was his use of irony, like there'd be two boxers knocking seven bells out of each other and he'd say something like "No Christmas Cards between them two".

Eddie Waring had loads of catch phrases -- (all in broad accent)

Eeeeeeh - its an up pun nunder

Heh Heh - they'll all be friends in the bath afterwards.

Horizontal Rain

Oh. And if Mr (referees name) had sin that, theer uduv been words.

and of course his trilby, which he tip to camera at the end of his piece.

Him and Stuart Hall (another class radio man) were unforgettable on Jeux Sans Frontiers.

I didn't get a game last week like I'd hoped, which got me down a bit.

But it looks like I'm on for Slough Town v Yeading on Saturday - the only all non-league FA Cup Second Round tie!

So - cast a spratt to catch a mackeral - or rather a couple of minnows to catch a broadcaster.

Good luck - I'm driving up to Scarborough on Saturday, so I'll be in the car and will keep an ear open for you.