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Last night I watched a film starring Ally McCoist. It was about a team that could cease to exist at the end of the season due to the plotting of a ruthless owner. It wasn’t the Rangers 2011/12 Season Review DVD it was the Scottish movie masterpiece “A Shot at Glory.”
Robert “Boo Radley” Duvall plays club coach, Gordon McLeod. If you are unaware of who Boo Radley is then I suggest you check youtube for his hit single “Wake up Boo.” During production he was treated with respect by football fans up and down the country who in no way took the oportunity to make fun of him for his lack of scottish football knowledge. Here he is in a typical fan shot outside celtic park.
Ally “Question of Sport” McCoist is Jackie McQuillan, the team’s striker who used to play for Celtic. He wouldn’t wear any Celtic top during production and they had to be added on digitally afterwards. At one point he punches a Rangers fan whilst wearing the top. This would never happen in real life as he prefers to punch Celtic’s Neil Lennon whilst wearing his Rangers top.
Michael “Batman” Keaton plays the American owner of the team. The new Batman film wanted to shut down the A9 to film scenes of desolation and poverty. I don’t know why they wanted to close it down as they could have got those same scenes filming the megabus to Inverness.
Brian “Hannibal Lecter” Cox is the the manager of Glasgow Rangers. Its not the first time they have been managed by a man famous for chopping people up. They had Graeme “Chopper” Souness.
If you love awful acting, bad scottish accents and a lead actor who is more famous for his offscreen antics than his on screen then I recommend Charlie Sheen in Postmortem. The worst Scottish movie of all time.
but otherwise check out A Shot at Glory
Next week I’ll cover the best football film ever made although it does have one major issue. Its not about football.
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About the Author
Iain “Toddinho” Todd mistakenly believes he could have been a professional footballer if only the ‘The Claude Makelele role’ had been invented in the 1980’s. Unfortunately his ability to be neither a defender or a midfielder meant he could often be found on the bench. His greatest achievement was a match winning hat trick which the local paper reported as been scored by his twin brother and his brother wasn’t even playing that day. He recently celebrated 25 years of playing 5 aside footy and has nothing to show for it other than a dodgy hip.
Iain Todd graduated from Charlie Ross’s comedy class and has subsequently shown why Charlie should fail some students. He does open spots as one half of “The Brothers Todd” – the third best comedy twin
act in the world! Only three comedy twin acts are in the world so they are also the world’s worst. They make Jedward look talented.
He stalks celebrities at @iainmacivertodd
