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A few years ago I was chatting with a couple of my mates about funny adverts and I got talking about one that I thought dated from around Euro '96 and which went as follows:-

- A woman is in labour.
- The camera is behind her shoulder and pointing down the bed.
- As soon as it becomes clear that she has given birth, the midwife's head pops up over her knees and into the shot.
- We now see that the midwife is Kevin Keegan, who, sporting a huge grin and a football, happily declares, "It's a ball!"
- The advert then cuts to a promo for a football publication, which according to my memory was either a Guardian or Times special on the Euros.

Nobody in the room had a fucking clue what I was banging on about, and I started to worry that I'd unintentionally just revealed a really, really warped dream. Once every few months since, I've done the odd google search to try and track down said godforsaken advert - for my own sanity as much as anything. Anyway, I mentioned it to a mate on facebook tonight and eventually, after a bit, between us we found this link...

http://www.uktvadverts.com/Home/Search.aspx?advert=1995

And then this link...

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/keegan-s ... 49.article

And then - God knows how - he pulled up this short video on youtube...

[youtube]x7lOdqeosHM[/youtube]

Aside from being fucking hilarious, that's the last four seconds of the Keegan segment I've been on about. Why is it in Italian? Where is the preceding narrative without which that shot makes no sense whatsoever?

If anyone, ANYONE, can find me the full English-language advert on the back of all this information, I'll be eternally grateful. Also, if anyone could make me a GIF of the first four seconds of the video above, that would be beyond ace.

Mods, feel free to move to O-T if you like, but I'd argue that it IS footy-related.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/ ... d=390.html

I guess it wasn't so successful, judging from this, 'cos it couldn't be aired during shows in which he was involved (don't know if this included football games where he was manager).

Seems to be from Euro 2000, so pre-YouTube. Best bet would be sending a request to Sportal asking them to upload it to their site (amongst their video hostings) or look for some Euro 2000 home-recorded VCRs in car boot sales...

BlueinBosnia wrote:http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/itc/itc_publications/complaints_reports/advertising_complaints/show_complaint.asp-ad_complaint_id=390.html

I guess it wasn't so successful, judging from this, 'cos it couldn't be aired during shows in which he was involved (don't know if this included football games where he was manager).

Seems to be from Euro 2000, so pre-YouTube. Best bet would be sending a request to Sportal asking them to upload it to their site (amongst their video hostings) or look for some Euro 2000 home-recorded VCRs in car boot sales...

Hmmmm. Cheers for that. I'd come to accept that it must've been for Euro 2000 when I saw that the original transmission date was May 2000.

I was in the process of emailing Sportal last night but I kept getting redirected to TeamTalk and other 365-group websites. It's annoying because usually you can find anything on youtube if you look hard enough!

At least I know it does exist and wasn't a figment of my imagination. I'm happy enough with that for the time being.