Jason Manford Thinks Footballers are Getting Too Soft | Live at the Apollo

Liverpool's has a strange relationship with Manchester as well is there anybody in from Liverpool all right thought we might have priced you out not to worry [Music] I I love Liverpool it's a it's a beautiful city and I remember when I first went over there I sport Manchester City right that's my football team and uh I remember going over there mid Manchester City shirt and I stopped this bloke at the train station I said listen mate I'm a bit lost I'm trying to find the docks can you help us out and he turned around he went which is a word in Liverpool right honestly it means you're not welcome right you pick it up quick enough right eventually he got to some sound he went Hey cuz they're naturally witty they're born with that right he said um he said what are you doing over there in Liverpool [Music] I love it I do now at that stage you're tempted to say calm down but that makes things worse so it don't like that I was very brave though I looked in the eye I said listen I asked you for directions officer you are bang out of order me it it but football you know has that problem doesn't it there's a lot of cities ate each other just because of the football you know I Sport City and obviously Manchester United is our nearest club and we got the United fans in of course we ammer Smith I am there's always a United fan every Giga do is a United fan they like rats you only have 3 MERS away from one of the bastards where you go where you go I love football but I'm getting to this stage where I'm starting to dislike footballers I don't know if anyone else this problem right but these like multi-millionaires running around the pitch you know every five minutes I've hurt myself I've hurt myself there was a bloke a few weeks back he missed three premiership games with a dead leg right now that's not an injury is it a dead leg right when I was a kid I had three dead legs in one day once right and that was for free I start to do PE and walk home that's not an injury mate my granddad's favorite footballer was a German goalkeeper called Bert Tran right now in the 1956 FA Cup finals does anyone know what happened to Old Bert broke his NE at you like the quiz team bang straight in no messing up work he broke his neck and carried on playing right that's how hard they were in the 50s the metat tarle not even invented in 1956 he just got up carried on diving about with a wobbly head right not bothered not bothered not these days it's the fans keep shouting nasty things at us that's me up right it and I'm you know I'm there in the in the crowd watching thinking you know what you're on 60 Grand a week if I think you're a noed I'll tell you right and that's the way it should work cuz if I was on that sort of money I'd take it as well do you know what I mean I'd stay an extra half hour at the end of the game just to take it you don't know B yeah I don't know see you next week Lads God bless take care your mom's in our bed yeah but you should see her house see you later who's the winner for

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