As the Europeans deify another bunch of hopelessly overpaid man-children so too the Bad Dads cash in with an episode devoted to that most infantile of sports, football. Bad Dad Dan is something of a football fanatic and has a touch of pedigree himself having played football under West Ham's very first attacking full-back/Manager, Syd King in 1902. The beautiful game lit a spark in Dan that could not be extinguished, which is how we end up here almost 120 years later with The Top 5 Movie With Balls.
Ah the Summer of '92, I remember it well. It would have been the year of my bar mitzvah and though countless debauched evenings and sleepless parental nights have consigned actual memories to the mists of time, I can of course take a fair guess based on all of the available evidence as to what I would have been doing: watching on miserably as England crash pathetically out of yet another major football tournament. Who knows, this time next week I'll probably be doing the same. As it happens though the very much unfancied Danish football team eventually won Euro 1992 but without Kasper Barfoed's brilliant SOMMEREN '92 I wouldn't have known anything about the struggle Richard Møller Nielsen (Ulrich Thomsen) faced to galvanise his team, the spiritual journey Cyron Melville's Brian Laudrup undertook and the incredible emotional story of Kim Wilfort and his daughter Line.
We finish up this weeks show with the pilot episode of Netflix's The New Legends of Monkey. If there was a football connection it was lost on me, something something magical crown and a lot of wind and lasers shooting from hands, then the thing ended. I dunno, this one didn't grab me guys but don't take my word for it, at least two of the dads loved it and the other one didn't bother because he hates you. So, you know. Make your own mind up or something.
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