Things are really hotting-up inside the BBC studios, as an episode of ‘A Question Of Sport’ enters the final nail-biting round…..
Opposing team captains Ally McCoist and John Parrot are both determined now to lose, as Sue Barker begins to rattle off the next vital question……
Sue Barker: ‘What colour do Scottish Premier League Side Dun…‘
‘BUZZ‘
(Ally McCoist slams down on his buzzer before she’s completely finished the question.)
Ally McCoist: ‘Tangerine‘
He’s right and John Parrot knows it!
The whole question was obviously going to be ‘What colour do Scottish Premier League side Dundee United play in’, but if that wasn’t a easy enough, Ally was even told before the question that the answer began with the letter ‘T’..it must be TANGERINE.
It was a dangerous gamble that McCoist had taken by pre-empting the rest of the question, but it was a gamble that eventually won him the game. Although even I could have predicted where that question was going, but never in my life would I have predicted what Sue Barker was going to say next…
Sue Barker Speaks…
Sue Barker: ‘And it’s a lovely shade of Tangerine.‘
That’s what she said, word for word. ‘It’s a lovely shade of Tangerine’. Of course she was completely right…it is a lovely shade of Tangerine, but I never took Sue Barker as a potential celebrity United fan. She must surely join the long list of self-confessed Celebrity Arabs, which already includes Lorraine Kelly and….erm…..um…..Lorraine Kelly?!?!?!?
Tangerine Jerseys
After hearing her say that on National television I was really tempted to chip in and purchase her a Tangerine jersey, so that she could admire its wonderful colour on a daily basis, or to at least write to her and ask how long she had been a closet Arab….
After the initial shock had subsided and I had recovered from the surprise of hearing someone make a reference to Dundee United on the BBC without mentioning Jim McLean assulting a certain BBC interviewer in the same sentence, I realised how ridiculous it would have been for me to send a United jersey through the post.
Afterall, how could you trust your postman not to steal the United jersey all for himself…..because it is such A Lovely Shade Of Tangerine!!!!
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