An Impossible Job... Graham Taylor is Back on our screens

[Aubery Boyce]

Can't wait for this...

LINESMAN! LINESMAN!

THis is one of the greatest TV programmes ever made. A worrying insight into how English football was run in those days.






ITV is to air an extended version of the landmark Graham Taylor documentary that went out 14 years ago on Channel 4 and has ordered a new film featuring the former England manager.
An Impossible Job was originally made by Chrysalis for Cutting Edge and followed England's dismal failure to qualify for the 1994 World Cup Finals. The fly-on-the-wall style gave an insight into the pressure Taylor was under before he was sacked.

North One, which now owns Chrysalis, has sold the doc to ITV4 and will also produce the 60-minute England Expects (working title) for ITV1.

The latter will feature Taylor talking to current England manager Fabio Capello plus Croatia boss Slaven Bililc and Dutch legend Johann Cruyff. It will be produced and directed by Carey Dunn and head of football Don Perretta.

Perretta said: "For the past 44 years England have perennially underachieved. Graham is the ideal person to talk about why England have struggled."
ITV director of news and sport Mark Sharman commissioned the show, which will air on 8 October before ITV1's coverage of England vs Kazakhstan.

An Impossible Job goes out on 7 October on ITV4.

[Tony Le Mesmer]

CAN WE NOT KNOCK IT!

Norway away is the highlight, or lowlight, depends which way you look at it i guess.

Nigel Clough coming on as sub and not having a clue where is was supposed to be playing. Phil Neal just agreeing with Taylor all the time.

[The Surgeon of Crowthorne]

Carlton! Carlton!! CARLTON!! Fcuking hell, Carlton.

[Archie's penalty]

A brilliant show - probably on youtube somewhere... and it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8XIrYDV ... re=related

[Baines]

Yes boss.

[floyd__streete]

"Tell your friend out there he's just cost me my job, thank him very much for that won't you."

[Aubery Boyce]

i actually have a DVD copy i made from the VHS tape of it.

So many good lines in it.

I tihnk the pre-match press conference befro the Holland game was my favourite bit. When Taylor absolutely ripped Rob Shepheard to shreds.

[John 3:16]

i actually have a DVD copy i made from the VHS tape of it.

So many good lines in it.

I tihnk the pre-match press conference befro the Holland game was my favourite bit. When Taylor absolutely ripped Rob Shepheard to shreds.

Yes,it was funny, but shepherd was right!

[Aubery Boyce]

i actually have a DVD copy i made from the VHS tape of it.

So many good lines in it.

I tihnk the pre-match press conference befro the Holland game was my favourite bit. When Taylor absolutely ripped Rob Shepheard to shreds.

Yes,it was funny, but shepherd was right!

Yep he was.


RS: I worry Graham.

GT: You Worry Rob! You go and worry on your own! Rob - You worry, just don't make the fcuking rest of us worry.

[The whole year inn]

A brilliant show - probably on youtube somewhere... and it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8XIrYDV ... re=related

That 3 man defence for Norway

This from a man who nearly got a decent Villa relegated a few seasons ago.

Then despite all the warnings the FA appoint Steve McClaren

Paul Merson is heavily featured, his performance for Boro that day at Elm Park still sticks in my mind. An entire class above the other 21 players on the pitch.

[Nick Shorey my Lord!]

Great news, the best car-crash TV ever made.

Will defo get this copied.

[papereyes]

A brilliant show - probably on youtube somewhere... and it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8XIrYDV ... re=related

That 3 man defence for Norway

Didn't Norway normally play Flo out wide, so Taylor sat down and thought "you know what, I'll play a centreback there to cover?" and the Norwegians had changed their formation for the game ...

But I'm going to defend the man, to some extent. What he did at Lincoln, at Watford and in his first spell at Villa shows that he was a good manager with a genuine ability to turn an average team into a winning one. He took Villa to the runners up spot in his last season there having taken them out of the second tier only two seasons before. His record at Lincoln stood for a very long time. He also took Watford up two divisions in two years at the end of the 1990s.

Who did the FA approach before him?

[Seal]

My five a-side football team is called Hit Les, in homage to this very programme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klzdz2kuPB4

[LoyalRoyalFan]

My five a-side football team is called Hit Les, in homage to this very programme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klzdz2kuPB4

Lmao.

[Chuckle Brother]

While one of the best (and certainly funniest) documentaries I've ever seen, some of the best lines can be attributed to the assistant management dream team of McMenemy and Phil Neal.

Not least it taking LM about 5 minutes to realise that aswell as Koeman not hving been sent off, the ref hadn't awarded a penalty.

And Gazza is like a lead violinist. He needs a bit of pampering.

[Chuckle Brother]

Set pieces - for and against.

Until they change the laws of the game, you'll ignore them at your peril.