FA Cup: Peterborough Boss Graham Westley Pulls Off Perfect Slapstick Fall During 2-2 Draw With West Brom (Video)

Alan Duffy

31st, January 2016

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During Peterborough’s impressive 2-2 FA draw with West Brom at the Hawthorns, Posh boss Graham Westley entertained the fans with a superb impromptu comedy ‘knock-out’ fall.

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When a burst football was kicked towards the touchline during the game, the 47-year-old Westley was all set to kick the ball away. However, instead the ball popped right in front of him, and bounced straight up in the air, leaving the manager to react with a superb pratfall…

Maybe if Louis Van Gaal did something similar he’d get the Man Utd fans off his back?

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  1. Look.. If you had one shot.. or one opportunity.. to seize everything you ever wanted.. in one moment.. would you capture it?.. or just let it slip? You only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!

    That was a masterful piece of impromptu slapstick from Mr Westley, with perfect comedic timing to act stunned ever so briefly before beginning his descent. And I’m no stuntman, but that was a stuntman-quality fall, very well disguised to appear like he went down flat on his back as if he’d been shot. He was standing on the hard stuff, as well. That was a bloody good effort from a bloke who was almost 48.

    It was a larvely gentle accurate kick from the goalie, with the ball gracefully bouncing its way off the pitch despite it being totally munted, as the camera tracked its path. With match day broadcasts filling TV screens with players and spectators and colour and movement and information…. it was an unusual thing of beauty to watch.

    Who can say they’ve witnessed a football bladder exploding like a party balloon? And what are the odds of it happening 1 foot in front of Mr Westley, causing the ball to change trajectory and bounce near vertical *just* as he went to tap it up, as if he possessed some weird kind of force field in his foot.

    Do you guys at realise what an impossible marvel you just witnessed? So many levels.

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