Phil Differ - Comic Writer - Only An Excuse, BBC Scotland, Comedy Unit

Hello, Im Craig and welcome to another episode of Football Kit Memories - the football podcast that gets under the shirt.

Today I meet a legend of Scottish comedy, Mr Phil Differ.

Since the 1980s, Phil has written and produced for some of the most memorable and iconic shows for stage and screen including Not The Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image and Chewin The Fat.

He’s perhaps best known for the long running Scottish football impression based satire - Only An Excuse, which began life on radio but transitioned to TV in 1993. In the following 27 years the show became a New Years Eve institution in Scotland - with main actor Jonathan Watson playing a host of characters including Frank McAvennie, Kenny Dalsglish and Sir Alex Ferguson just before the bells rang each year. 

In the podcast Phil talks to me about the show, his career and his latest play on the life of former Dundee United boss Jim McLean - which is rather aptly called Smile.

The play is available to stream for a limited time on the Dundee Rep Theatre website - links to this here https://dundeerep.co.uk/whats-on/smile

Later I asked Phil to pick three football shirts tell me a little bit about what they mean to him. We take a nostalgic look back at Scottish football in the sixties, with the hooped shirt Celtic wore in Lisbon in 67  and the national team goalkeeper jersey worn in the win over England at Wembley that sam year. We finish things off with a look at the Brazil shirts from the 1970 and 1982 world cups. Phil clearly loves his shirts.  

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