Post-match Interview

This is an early sketch I wrote a few years. All comments are welcome....

REPORTER INTERVIEWING A FOOTBALLER AFTER A MATCH.

INTERVIEWER:
So Gary it finished 1 all. Do you feelthat's a fair result all things considered?

GARY:
Well I actually haven't considered all things, but of the things I have considered maybe 2-2 would have been a fairer reflection.

INT:
Ok.. well you seem to be two very evenly matched sides. Would you share that view?

GARY:
I suppose so. I mean, I felt we dominated the first half but so did they and again in the second half.

INT:
At what point did you realise it was going to end in a stalemate?

GARY:
Well for me personally I knew when the final whistle blew that that was pretty much it.

INT:
And you seemed to be up for todays game. You gave a good display in the centre of the park.

GARY:
Oh well you know, we have a great bunch of lads they always give 110% we have a great manager who prepared us well for todays game.

We were happy to come away with a draw. It's another point on the board at the end of the day.

INT:
You're definitely not our man-of-the-match but thanks for joining us anyway.
Back to you in the studio.

PRESENTER AND PUNDIT IN STUDIO.

PRESENTER:
Thanks Jim and thanks to Gary too. What did you make of his performance?

PUNDIT:
I thought it was solid but a little patchy in places. I just picked out a clip that I feel illustrates this...

CUT TO CLIP OF INTERVIEW GARY JUST GAVE.

PUNDIT:
..Here we see where he's asked when he realised it would end in a stalemate.
We can quite clearly see he takes his eyes off the interviewer. He can't afford lapses in concentration like that. Having said that he's young and it's still early in the season so I think that will develop in time.

Again with the final question we see him looking away. He tries to make up for this but I feel maybe that he did'nt hear the question properly and just replied with a bunch of cliched answers.

In the lower divisions you can get away with this but in the topflight all these are going to be spotted.

PRESENTER NODS IN AGREEMENT.

PRESENTER:
Thanks for that. We still have much more to come after the break. We hear from both managers and don't forget to enter our interview-of-the-month competition including this cracker..

CUT TO INTERVIEW WITH ANOTHER PLAYER.

PLAYER:
..A game against this team is like playing chess with a duck. You know you should win but you don't know what to expect..

END.

Have you posted this before - perhaps in the Skit Comp? I only ask because the idea, which is a good one, seems familiar.

This has less of the distinctive Otterfox voice - or is less random, depending on how one wants to look at it - but is tighter - if less surprising - as a result.

My one serious criticism is that I am not keen on sketches that hinge at the halfway point -it can feel like two sketches that were not good enough to stand on their own being welded together. Unless it can be made to stand up as two freestanding sketches flowing into one another, I would recommended either getting back to the studio much, much quicker, or, perhaps better, shortening the studio segment.

I think it's a great idea.
And I think I may have seen a film of this ages ago, although I could be wrong.
Love the last line as well.

I wrote it ages ago so there is a good possibility I may have submitted here before. Its definitely one of my shorter sketches and one of the 1st sketches I wrote. Maybe I hadn't developed my own sketch style when I wrote it.

Thanks for the replies.