Tony Gubba - RIP

[dorgie]

A blast from the footballing commentary past and when football coverage was just a couple of nights a week.

 

RIP

 

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-03-11/commentator-tony-gubba-dies-aged-69/

[Swipe]

Back when commentators weren't hateful, too.

[sutty]

Then I reach the reader's wives

 

RIP Gubba

[£440,000]

RIP. Always quite liked him. His name was cool.

 

Sat next to him once at an aftershow drink thing for the premiere of a musical about Roy Orbison. Kenwright was the producer.

[Bigal]

RIP you sandy coloured clown

[yellow jumper]

RIP gubba. off to see the creator supreme.

[Cunny]

Is this good or bad news for Gubba lookalikes?

[charlie clown]

And in tribute the sorely missed fella...., courtesy, of course, of HMHB (and Bigal):

 

They come from underneath the stairs

Into my room but no-one cares

They’re on the bus and on the train

They’re knocking on my window pane

Oh Mother telephone the nurse

Can’t you see it’s getting worse

I close my eyes yet still it seems

Everybody in my dreams

Gubba look-a-likes

Gubba look-a-likes

 

I wake up screaming in the hall

I didn’t mean to wake at all

I run and lock the bathroom door

Turn on the taps and out they pour

Through all the villages and towns

A thousand sandy-coloured clowns

I try and escape down private drives

And then I reach the Readers’ Wives

Gubba look-a-likes

Gubba look-a-likes

 

In order to fling off this curse, I spend all day drinking in diverse taverns, with smarmy acrobats and balding senators. But after a while they too adopt the likeness, and begin to breed like town pigs. As a drunken lump I fall into a state of blissful unconsciousness, but the moment is fleeting, and I awake once more in despair – and in my final agonies believe myself lost.

 

Gubba look-a-likes…

 

In every film and every play

On every public right of way

On every flag I see unfurled

On all the grounds in all the world

The one armed bandits in the bar

In the back of every car

And even on my dying day

They’ll refuse to go away

When I walk towards the light

Something somewhere won’t be right

And what was once my Uncle Keith

Says there’ll never be relief

And we’ll go on and on and on and on and on

 

Gubba look-a-likes…

[Jarg Armani]

Those lyrics are different gravy from the bard of Birkenhead.

[Bailo]

They had Gerald Sinstadt on R5 to pay tribute. Another great of the commentating game.

[Billy Dane]

They had Gerald Sinstadt on R5 to pay tribute. Another great of the commentating game.

 

Gerald Sinstadt, Gerald Sinstadt

How's the party going now?

[Jarg Armani]

Sinstadt's in the Glitter group isn't he?

[smithdown]

They had Gerald Sinstadt on R5 to pay tribute. Another great of the commentating game.

 

 

 

Oh the laughs all around when he Gerald Sinstadt got picked up by the fuzz when they raided the Gilmore, him with his hand down his dirty mac and the continental party just starting up front on the silver and regal-stained screen.

[Gunga Din]

Sinstadt's in the Glitter group isn't he?

 

Think it was more the Travis Bickle sort of thing. Was going to them cimemas were they give you a ticket and a packet of kleenex.

[Jarg Armani]

Can you still have a w*** in the pictures? Mad world.

[matty]

BBC commentators are dying in the wrong order.

[Stevie H]

BBC commentators are dying in the wrong order.

i wanted to strangle motson for the way he commentated on the swansea game at the weekend. when he doesn't know the rules he asks a f***ing question of himself. "well lama thought he had scored, and i think you have to wonder whether or not he was offside?'. all in that choked up nudged awake while sleepily masturbating warble of his. b*****d.

[Raj]

enjoyed that piece on him on Football focus

shame. 69 is pretty young

[matty]

enjoyed that piece on him on Football focus

shame. 69 is pretty young

69 is a good innings compared to some.

[Murphman]

69 is a good innings compared to some.

 

 

You strange c*nt.

[matty]

You strange c*nt.

Me? Why?

[Raj]

69 is a good innings compared to some.

 

a shame either way

[matty]

a shame either way

Absolutely.