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Older heads will recall a movie being shot at Portman Road circa 1979 - Yesterday's Hero, with Ian McShane playing a star striker.
Someone's only gone and put it on YouTube!
Go to the 38 minute mark to see Portman Road in all it's seventies glory. See the bored supporters in the West Stand! Gawp at the half hearted pretend goal celebrations! Get confused as the camera is in the Cobbold Stand and everything is back to front!
I remember that those of us in the crowd didn't play ball when they were filming. Lots of jeering and taking the pish.
I remember that too. A friend of mine was one of the extras and was instructed to cheer etc. but there doesn't appear to be much footage of them. And my abiding memory was that Ian McShane was quite stocky and had very prominent ribs, something that doesn't come across in the film.
John Motson is listed at the end of supporting actors, Frank McLIntock as football adviser and it was written by Jackie Collins, sounds like one tough green room.
V Man City I think. I was in Churchmans, remember McShane taking several attempts at a shot. Adam Faith as his agent?
You're right, it was at half time v Man City (I was at the game with a citey-supporting mate). Not only did McShane have several unsuccessful attempts to put the ball in the net, he was that sh!t the director ran out of patience and they changed the move so that he could tap the ball in from a couple of yards. It was hilarious.
Ha ha does anyone remember the filming for the 'rabbit' when the North stand was given a chant to do for the film and just took the piss. Seem to remember the filming was abandoned!
There was an equally rubbish film made a couple of decades later with another ‘housewives favourite’ Sean Bean playing the George Best role for Sheffield United.
Pre Lovejoy days for McShane.. Bit of a limp plot for the film, very predicable ending. McShane's first bit of totty was Ms Barber as I recall. Some time before she was in Dempsey and Makepeace...
Ha ha does anyone remember the filming for the 'rabbit' when the North stand was given a chant to do for the film and just took the piss. Seem to remember the filming was abandoned!
does anyone in the North Stand admit singing 'the referee's a rabbit'?
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