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Friday, April 29, 2011

Friday Funnies - Mike Tindall and his nose on A League of Their Own

It's been a day for royalty, so sticking with that theme, here's a funny look at England captain Mike Tindall's recent appearance on the hilarious sports quiz show, A League of Their Own.

You may have noticed Tindall and wife to be, Zara Phillips, at the big wedding earlier today as part of the royal precession. They themselves will get married in Edinburgh in June, albeit with a slightly less flash affair.

Princess Anne, Zara's mother, has given her blessing to her daughter to marry the rugged rugby player, but has asked Tindall to sort out his damaged nose first. "She's a bit worried about how the wedding photos might turn out," he said.

After eight separate breaks he says he's had surgery on it before, which didn't turn out too well.

"I had two metal plates inserted up my nose to keep it straight. The very next game, I was playing for Gloucester against Northampton and one of their players put in a high tackle. He pressed his thumbs on my nose and...crunch! The metal plates popped out on to the pitch.

"I'm not keen to do it again."

There has been talk about the nose being in such bad condition that any operation would be an extremely complicated procedure, therefore surely something that wouldn't be worth doing before his career comes to an end. Their big day is in two months though, so it looks like someone will need to do some serious airbrushing to the wedding photos.

As you'll see in this classic compilation of the best bits with Tindall from a recent episode of A League of Their Own, his nose comes up in conversation fairly often. There's plenty of good banter, with some great comedians (and Freddie Flintoff), so hopefully you enjoy it.


Time: 09:33


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53 Comments:

  • First :D

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 29, 2011 11:00 pm  

  • First! :)

    Thanks for the clip RD!

    By Anonymous Dave, at April 29, 2011 11:01 pm  

  • Why does anybody care about getting the first comment? It means nothing

    By Anonymous Matt, at April 29, 2011 11:14 pm  

  • Top stuff,

    Jimmy Carr on the tackle bags! Haha!

    By Anonymous Fridge, at April 29, 2011 11:24 pm  

  • Jimmy Carr is hilarious. That sticky tape thing by John Bishop was legendary though!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 29, 2011 11:29 pm  

  • haven't even watched the video yet but the picture at the top says it all!his nose is horrible!!BOD's nose is pretty bent as well

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 12:09 am  

  • Some ROG-esque tackling there by Jimmy Carr, just hug it and hope it goes down ;)

    By Blogger wow-jiffy-lube, at April 30, 2011 12:17 am  

  • Good laff this clip.

    Jimmy Carr's tackling style had me in stitches.

    And no. BOD's nose just doe snot compare to Tindall's - not by a long shot!

    By Anonymous mise, at April 30, 2011 12:34 am  

  • typical face of an englishman

    By Anonymous jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjakey, at April 30, 2011 12:44 am  

  • good on ya tindall! a true man of rugby!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 1:21 am  

  • tindal seems like a real awesome bloke. Took all the jokes with a laugh, class...

    Also, some fair points there, albeit funny. He COULD come to be king consort. Also, he'll sing an anthem about his "auntie". Genius

    By Anonymous The Green Mafia, at April 30, 2011 1:26 am  

  • LOL does anyone else think the guy with the eye liner tackles like ROG?

    Yeah it's a troll, but I know he's a funny guy, seen him on comedy network few times.

    Couldn't really understand the guy on the right at first but it got better. Don't really understand the premise of this show and some bits were funny... best was the end.

    By Anonymous Canadian so maybe I cant appreciate it, at April 30, 2011 1:29 am  

  • Rubbish!

    By Blogger Frenchy, at April 30, 2011 1:44 am  

  • no wonder the English cant handle Digby's manoeuvre's if this is the sort of comedy they produce!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 1:50 am  

  • Wow! British television is horrible!

    By Anonymous ReactorField, at April 30, 2011 3:01 am  

  • its just a quiz show where people can have a laugh in the process....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 4:03 am  

  • Interesting how british tv is rubbish... when most the stuff over in Australia seems to be american or british

    Australian tv is shit, they take an hour show like top gear and make it 30 mins longer just with adverts that cut in mid sentence at times...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 5:40 am  

  • ,,,are you guys really going to go from NH rugby vs SH rugby to NH tv vs SH tv? Please tell me you're having a laugh.

    By Anonymous I hate ppl who write "First!", at April 30, 2011 8:29 am  

  • I'm from South Africa dickhead. And yeah I was having a laugh.

    By Anonymous ReactorField, at April 30, 2011 9:50 am  

  • mike seems shrek

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 10:03 am  

  • isn't this meant to be a laugh, it's just a tv show. how does everything on these blogs turn to SH v NH

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 10:19 am  

  • haha nice!! good fun!

    By Anonymous Cheis, at April 30, 2011 11:01 am  

  • Ignore the spaz comments! Bound to be some muppets who want to be negative about everything in life. :)

    I thought this was really funny

    By Anonymous Scotsdale, at April 30, 2011 11:27 am  

  • their editor deserves an oscar for the clips that actually make Tindall look in any way good aty rugby....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 12:02 pm  

  • Why does anybody care about getting the first comment? It means nothing

    -------

    They're getting the first comment, ironically.

    You critics should really learn the internet and come to understand it's one big piss take. Nobody actually gives a shit. It's parody

    By Anonymous Chris, at April 30, 2011 1:10 pm  

  • In fairness this show is generally crap. Wasn't it relegated to Sky One? Still, understandable why RD is showing this clip

    By Anonymous Chris, at April 30, 2011 1:12 pm  

  • "You critics should really learn the internet and come to understand it's one big piss take. Nobody actually gives a shit. It's parody."

    Chris, the internet and the opinions of people expressed on the web have led to a number of governments around the world falling recently.

    Your opinion that "nobody actually gives a shit" couldn't be further from the truth. Perhaps, today, you don't 'give a shit' about the validity of opinins expressed online but rest assured that the nomination of the internet for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 was not 'one big piss take'.

    The internet was the primary driver of recent revolts in the Arab world, was central to the Iranian uprising and has been successful for two decades as means for effecting positive social and political change.

    By Blogger Disco, at April 30, 2011 2:00 pm  

  • That was quite funny actually...

    Thanks for sharing RD

    By Anonymous Flipje, at April 30, 2011 4:04 pm  

  • Disco you just doing understand....

    By Blogger kaibishin, at April 30, 2011 4:13 pm  

  • Disco - intelligent guy...shame your genius is wasted on an internet thread bout mike tindall's nose, your better than that mate.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 5:10 pm  

  • I want to see how long Jimmy would last in a full international.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 30, 2011 8:45 pm  

  • Your opinion that "nobody actually gives a shit" couldn't be further from the truth. Perhaps, today, you don't 'give a shit' about the validity of opinins expressed online but rest assured that the nomination of the internet for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 was not 'one big piss take'.

    The internet was the primary driver of recent revolts in the Arab world, was central to the Iranian uprising and has been successful for two decades as means for effecting positive social and political change.

    --------

    Clearly there's misunderstanding and I worded myself poorly. I meant the whole 'first' shenanigans are one big piss take, not the internet itself. My mistake.

    But, the Nobel Peace Prize was invalidated when Henry Kissinger won it. Even more so when Obama got it. I don't think there's a bigger piss-take in Politics than the Nobel Peace Prize, if I'm being frank. And you'd struggle to find an honest, politically literate individual who'd disagree with that assessment.

    Also if we want to wax political, the internet was only nominated because it contributed to uprising in ENEMY STATES. If it was used as a vehicle to bring about removal of government through violence in the West it wouldn't be praised, it would be roundly criticised and used to justify censorship and the control of internet. In fact groups organising even peaceful protest in the West via Facebook, for example, are often victim to the censorship I mention - seeing their groups shut down on request of Police.

    Of course the internet is great, you could even argue it's the first real example of a large anarchist society; but understand if the internet brought about violent revolt in ally nations it wouldn't receive Peace Prize nominations lol.

    By Anonymous Christopher, formely Chris, at April 30, 2011 9:23 pm  

  • reactorfield you are such a fucking idot. please fuck off. thanks

    By Anonymous beaslippy, at April 30, 2011 10:31 pm  

  • What's an idot? Is that like an ipad? British tv is shit. Deal with it.

    By Anonymous ReactorField, at April 30, 2011 11:36 pm  

  • british TV is mostly aimed at...brits. And, a bit, at those that get their humour. But mostly at Brits.

    These clips are funny to millions (in TVland) and a reasonable number here. So, they work.

    But nothing destroys humour more than over anal ysing it, so if it ain't u'r bag, don't bother.........

    By Anonymous B-rit playER, at May 01, 2011 2:47 am  

  • case in point Canadian guy - u are right, u just don't get it.

    By Anonymous B-rit playER, at May 01, 2011 2:48 am  

  • Tindall is a World Cup winning legend.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 01, 2011 4:24 am  

  • should youtube the show there are some other good clips from past series.

    but it is english humor so if you don't get it/like it don't bother

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 01, 2011 5:04 am  

  • You sound like a little bitch reactorfield

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 01, 2011 10:58 am  

  • Mike Tindall takes banter well, would be funny if he just knocked Jimi Carr out though!
    I'm British, but I've never really found this show funny tbh, it does have its moments. But please do not compare the ENTIRE British comedy and television industry to a short clip of this program that you saw on rugbydump. You need to watch more than a 10 minute clip to have a valid opinion of British T.V or any other Nation's T.V...sorry ReactorField

    By Blogger kaibishin, at May 01, 2011 1:10 pm  

  • It's OK, I like your nose Mikey ;)

    By Anonymous Gareth Thomas, at May 01, 2011 4:17 pm  

  • I found this incredibly dull. WTF is the point of this "game show"? Looks really bad. More rugby less bad british comedy please.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 01, 2011 7:15 pm  

  • hahaha......... 90% of the comments on this post are just hilarious. Unintentionally of course, just complete nonsense....... hahaha

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 01, 2011 8:44 pm  

  • Hey RD, I frequent your site an awful lot, I do not contribute to any of your videos, I bitch about a lot of your videos, I don't like a lot of your videos however I rarely request anything. I only like the team from my own country, I hate all other teams because they produce sub-standard rugby...even when they beat my team its only because we got robbed by the referee or they cheated or because we dont care about that match so we dont care if we lost.

    I hate all other users on this site and try to cause arguments amongst them. I represent the modern day rugby(football) fan because its all about how loud I can shout.

    I pay no money towards this site, however I feel your choice of videos here are poor. Please remove all these videos and only post videos which correspond to MY views and MY team!

    Kind regards,

    Your daily visiting c*nt!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 02, 2011 12:36 am  

  • like^^^^^

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 02, 2011 1:18 am  

  • Have to agree not a fan of this show....but hey, its all fun right? Well, maybe not for some overly-critical negative types who take themselves a bit too seriously. But British humour, Bad? No! Shaun of the Dead, Monty Python, Withnail and I, Billy Connoly......man the list goes on!

    By Blogger Alexander, at May 02, 2011 2:53 am  

  • Wow they really do play this game in heaven.

    By Anonymous Osama Bin Laden, at May 02, 2011 10:52 am  

  • i like reactorfield, seems like a really nice guy

    By Anonymous jimma, at May 02, 2011 2:18 pm  

  • At least we can all agree that Redknap, and all footballers therefore, are twunts

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 02, 2011 8:10 pm  

  • yes!!!! lets continue to group people together and paint them with the same brush, historically that has worked so well....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 03, 2011 1:06 am  

  • Alexander you do realise Billy Connolly is a proud scotsman, and calling a scotsman british is kinda like an insult...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 03, 2011 3:29 am  

  • The Office, Extras, Peep Show, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools, Not Going Out, Minder, Coupling, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Father Ted, Have I Got News for You, Drop the Dead Donkey, Gavin & Stacey, Yes Minister, Open All Hours, The Good Life, One Foot in the Grave, Men Behaving Badly, Ab Fab, Red Dwarf, The Royle Family, The Young Ones, Butterflies, Just Good Friends, Home to Roost, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin, Bread, Birds of a Feather, Bottom, Citizen Smith, Two Pints of Lager (the early years), The New Statesman, Dear John, Only When I Laugh, Shelley, Man About the House, Never the Twain, Black Books, Please Sir!, The Liver Birds, I'm Alan Partridge, The League of Gentlemen, Benidorm, Phoenix Nights, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, To the Manor Born, Steptoe and Son....


    They're just not a patch on Shortland Street and Home and Away.

    By Anonymous Crikey Bonza Barbie Mate Strewth, at May 03, 2011 11:39 am  

  • and the list goes on and on....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 03, 2011 2:47 pm  

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