1991: Sports Desk, On The Hour
Episode 1 ALAN This is Sports Desk, I'm Alan Partridge. Formula One driver Nigel Mansell gave up motor racing this week as it's 'too dangerous'. "And anyway" , claims Mansell, "I can get the same sensation by sitting in a wind tunnel with dark glasses on, and a paper bag of agitated wasps tied over my head" . -- ALAN This is Sports Desk, I'm Alan Partridge. Athletics, and sprinter Linford Christie has withdrawn from tomorrow's Crystal Palace meeting in Oslo, blaming groin injury. The problem centres on possible tearing in the lower skin and a slight severing of dry tissue from the genital wall. Apparently seven connective membranes have been stretched and three have come loose, causing the inner sac to chafe against the muscle for the third time this season. Episode 2 CHRIS And now sport. ALAN This is Sports Desk, I'm Alan Partridge. Cricket, and a shock result at Lord's today when Glamorgan defeated Middlesex. I spoke to Graeme G...
