London Mayor Boris Johnson opened the Rugby World Cup 2015 Pool Allocation Draw on Monday with a typically unique speech that paid tribute to the founders of the game.
Johnson spoke of the drunk Victorians that had had enough of the 'namby-pamby pussyfooting around of the spheroid fetishists of association football', among other things.
View a replay of the RWC 2015 Draw and IRB Player, Team, and Coach of the Year awards here.
Just in case anyone doesn't know what specifically he's referring to at 0:42 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJORClH-x00
And when Boris met Arnie, just before the Olympics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73yevJ0K4Lw
"Have you ever wrestled someone in a cable car?" - about the only time in the video that he has a serious facial expression...
Did you see Schwarzenegger's first impression of Boris?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wrSUeDxBhg
Classic!!
Well, whatever, he's still bloody funny though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMAO1hfZSzc skip to 2:40 of this video. haha. This is how I always imagine non-English people when they first see a Boris Johnson speech.
You've got to love a politician who doesn't mind making a bit of an oaf of himself. His hair seems to do it all by itself, btw
This was my first Boris Johnson speech ever, and I must say I'm quite delighted.
Sounds a bit like Douglas Adams.
quite amusing and refreshing speech ;)
but this guy seems to make his own "buffon" publicity at each sport event. i guess he will have a special "reversed" speech for uefa direction before the champions league final 2013... in london.
ps: was it this guy who said that the olympic golden medals won by team GB could pay the debts of Greece?...
Legend haha
yet another reason for the brilliant man to be PM