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Fans of BBC football broadcasting – and Eric Morecambe tongue-twisters – were elated at the weekend when two Scottish football teams produced the perfect score
Not wanting to be a killjoy, but it didn’t really happen. That’s not to say Forfar didn’t really beat East Fife in the Scottish League Cup on Sunday, albeit on penalties, creating for the first time the fabled football scoreline “East Fife 4, Forfar 5”, more that it didn’t happen because it can’t happen.
“East Fife 4, Forfar 5” was a joke – well, a tongue-twister really – of Eric Morecambe’s. The comedian would deploy it when encountering James Alexander Gordon, who read the classified football scores on BBC radio between 1974 and 2013. “Eric never called me James – whenever I saw him over a 20-year period he would say ‘East Fife four Forfar five’,” Gordon recalled in 2012.
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