Video: York City FC funnies from Morecambe and Sky

7 Apr 2013 @ 2.07 pm
| Sport

Miranda Hart’s tribute to Eric Morecambe included a gag at the expense of York City

York City fans need cheering up at the moment. Gallows humour has been much in evidence at Bootham Crescent as the club faces the miserable prospect of relegation back to the Conference after only one season back in the league.

So we thought it was worth airing a couple of recently-screened City funnies. The first dates back to the Seventies heyday of Morecambe & Wise, and was included in the recent BBC show My Hero: Miranda Hart on Eric Morecambe.

Luton Town and York City have become bitter rivals in recent years, rivalry which only deepened with City’s victory over Luton in the Wembley Play-Off Final last year. But we had no idea that it went this far back…

And this weekend York City News’s classic Tweet cracked up the Soccer AM studio…



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