Anybody help me with a memory block from the 90's * Solved**

kwalshe

This may be way out there under severely irrelevant section of the world. I was thinking about Fantasy Football (with Baddiel and Skinner) from the 90's today and was thinking of a section where they played the song Lambada and it was linked to a bald player. I just cannot remember the name of the player and it's doing my conker in, anyone remember?
I've tried Googly already

sidneykidney

Cant help you OP but i do remember a song they used to sing about a players hairstyle,the words were...."he's got a pineapple on his head".

For the life of me i cant rememmber him either

AARRRGH

I used to watch the show the odd time, but I can't remember this.

Which country was the player from?

OPENROAD

sidneykidney wrote: »

Cant help you OP but i do remember a song they used to sing about a players hairstyle,the words were...."he's got a pineapple on his head".

For the life of me i cant rememmber him either

Jason Lee

Daemos

Did any of you actually look? I found it in the second link

It was Jeff Astle

I think...

Chinafoot

DaPoolRulz wrote: »

Did any of you actually look? I found it in the second link

It was Jeff Astle

I think...

Jeff Astle was the footballer who did all the singing. I thought the OP meant the version of Lambada Jeff Astle sang was linked to a bald footballer. (as far as I recall, Jeff Astle wasn't bald)

kwalshe

AARRRGH wrote: »

I used to watch the show the odd time, but I can't remember this.

Which country was the player from?

He may have been Italian

anonymous_joe

kwalshe wrote: »

He may have been Italian

Attilio Lombardo?

super_furry

Attilio Lombardo, played for Crystal Palace at the time.

squod

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Is it yer man?

super_furry

Damn you anonymous_joe! You have made a powerful enemy today!

Joe Cool

Was it the intro to the 'Saints & Greavie talk about the Endsleigh League' sketch?

Guess not...

kwalshe

Chinafoot wrote: »

Jeff Astle was the footballer who did all the singing. I thought the OP meant the version of Lambada Jeff Astle sang was linked to a bald footballer. (as far as I recall, Jeff Astle wasn't bald)

Jeff Astle did sing every week, but a different song every week. Now that you mention Jeff Astle may have done the song with a bald wig aswell as it being a sketch / filler bit

anonymous_joe

super_furry wrote: »

Damn you anonymous_joe! You have made a powerful enemy today!

Sowwy.

kwalshe

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Attilio Lombardo?

good Lad Anonymos Joe, that's the fella. Bit dumb of me not to think along those lines... Good man

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1110000/images/_1110288_attiliolombardo300.jpg

squod

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Or 'im?

Chinafoot

kwalshe wrote: »

Jeff Astle did sing every week, but a different song every week. Now that you mention Jeff Astle may have done the song with a bald wig aswell as it being a sketch / filler bit

Yeah I know it was a different song. The other poster seemed to have been under the impression that the footballer you were referring to was Jeff Astle. I merely pointed out it was he who sang the Lambada song you are referring to.

Anyway, mystery solved.

Dudess

Jason Lee really shouldn't have let the "pineapple head" thing get to him the way he did - didn't it affect his career or something?

starbelgrade

Dudess wrote: »

Jason Lee really shouldn't have let the "pineapple head" thing get to him the way he did - didn't it affect his career or something?

"He's got a piiiineapple on his head, he's got a piiinapple on his head!"

Xavi6

Dudess wrote: »

Jason Lee really shouldn't have let the "pineapple head" thing get to him the way he did - didn't it affect his career or something?

Didn't really affect his career cause he was sh*t anyway but having 30,000 plus people singing that song to him every week really pissed him off. He's still playing in the lower leagues btw, minus the pineapple.

Dudess

He used to get very upset, poor guy. I was torn between thinking "get over it" and just feeling sorry for him.