Sunday Game - Home Knitted Set
Talking Balls
Viewers of the Sunday Game have been contacting Talking Balls in their droves to admire the new traditional ‘home-knit’ set design. With sofas that look like a jumper the mother-in-law gave you for Christmas, one that you have to wear to keep the ball and chain happy, to a backdrop that makes Pat Spillane look like he’s floating about the set of Finding Nemo, Times are certainly changing at RTE.
One innovation has been the re-introduction of the old theme tune. Back by popular demand and to loud acclaim is the famous James Last march, replacing the bombastic pompous dirge that sounded like an army of orcs on the march to the pub.
Things have definitely changed in studio with a marked change towards a more laid-back look. With the pundits’ striped and open-necked shirts completing the sitting-round-the-fire-on-the-sofa look, epilepsy sufferers should be well warned to give Sunday evenings and the review of the weekend’s action a miss- purely for health reasons you understand.
Best of all, in long shot the presence of Evanne Ní Chuilinn and Anthony Daly, perched stage-rear on precarious looking bar stools either side of Pat Spillane, made it look like he had an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. ‘Gwan, mention puke football again for old time’s sake, we all love a sinner that has fallen again.’ quoth the evil Anthony, perched on his left.
‘No Pat, don’t do it, we are trying to build viewing figures and most people think you are a shite anchor man as it stands,’ warbled the lovely Evanne - herself a real asset to the programme and definitely a yoke that’ll be getting one of our new t-shirts or maybe a hoodie in the post if Talking Balls has any influence among our warehousemen Chris and Michael. Meanwhile Dalo sits chuckling and grinning to himself, as if the delectable Evanne has just given him the glad eye.
Back then to Pat, floating aimlessly through the deep blue yonder, oblivious to the sharks round him as he continues drifting round Finding Nemo. Or maybe that should be Piero - the new state-of-the-art gizmo that promises to give a 21st Century view of everything that goes on, on and off the ball. Apparently it can immediately “create a virtual pitch, showing you particular situations from all sorts of different angles”.
Can’t wait for the first row of the summer to see how Piero gets on with that. “Here we see what Ciaran Whelan saw as he . . .”.