I met Spatsky in London in 1989, he was sightseeing, even when he wasn’t staring his eyes were awesome when he looked at me. What a sportsman.

It’s hard to forget the impact of the final. Who knew at the time that it was all faked, and that all the members of the World Staring Commission would eventually have to resign in disgrace.

I miss these championships. :)

TV GOLD

David Joyce on commentary there. Later worked for Radio Norwich using the name Dave Clifton in honour of his hero Giggles.

It looked as if it might have gone into extra time and penalties - what a final!

Barry makes this

The good old days when professional staring was on terrestial TV and the whole family could watch together. The stars were all household names and great characters. Just not the same now.

Don’t remember the laughter track from the original comp?

my dad was there in '73 when the bold up and comer Ilikehats was banned for life... legally blind since birth, glass eyes, it nearly killed the sport.

spassky never let up even after he had won HE NEVER BLINKED! what a true legend

More entertaining than test cricket

My dad queued for hours to get tickets for the final but they sold out. He comforted himself with the thought of watching it on TV but on the day of the final the TV packed in. Mum said he was never the same man afterwards.

There is a really lazy and unfunny advert for sofas that totally rips this off.

Chris Whitty trained for many years at staring but unfortunately decided to go into politics.. A great loss to staring. He would have been world champion.

😂😂😂

People say the old school starers couldn't compete in the modern game, but I'm not so sure...

how ridiculous can't believe this still goes on

should be an Olympic sport...

Tumblain : *Dies of cringe*

The real genius of this was getting Barry Davies to do the Commentary!

This almost feels like child abuse.

This is why Barry Davies was a god of a commentator. No other commentator could have done this so well

Eat, drink and breathe staring 😂

Gowron would win

This is actually one of the better ones. Too many of the others are borderline just stupid.

GOing through the 'd's is actually a genuinely good lie in that situation.

I want to fucking know how my best fucker knew about Davenport because I never even spoke it outloud

Seems legit...

"know as Lindsay to his friends" comedy gold

I was waiting for the last open position to be for a tennis coach or something and him being like no sorry I don't have any candidates for that one.

RIP Bark Man :( Sod cancer!

this is exactly what it's like to be a recruiter

Shit one

The crushing nature of Spatsky's victory here hasn't been seen repeated in the past 25 years, even when Spatsky himself controversially came out of retirement. Can anyone else join the dots here? He was doped to high heaven. If you believe he was clean here, you're just fooling yourself. Spatsky made me lose interest in the game. I'm now a fan of thumb war, and I suppose I have Spatsky to thank.

It's great to see David playing the stupid character and Rob playing the reasonable one for a change!

every line in this sketch is pure comedy gold 😂

2022

Wow she's a hottie.. Who is she.?

"Go fuck off" XD

The thing is Paul, your mum and I belong to generation X. We're shallow, self-centred hedonists, who have no conception of taking pleasure in nurturing our children and building for the future. All we want to do is screw and get drunk, and you got in the way.

hiring a woman to be an accountant, brilliant joke

I am so thankful that I got to witness this masterpiece.

I hear there's a position available in the accounting department at Reynholm Industries.

Lindsey doesn't know her next job could be in cyber.

I’d love to know is Ms Davenport has ever seen this sketch?

Did anyone come here because of Magnus v Ian. Maybe not

And when I grow old, my hair turns grey and they put me in a chair, I'll tell my great grandchildren that I was there. And they'll ask to hear the story of that dark October day, When I went down to and I saw Spatsky and Kampagnola play.

Are you really suggesting that working out your payroll is harder than winning Wimbledon? 😂😂😂😂😂

How did they know about Davenport?!