The narration begins customarily, with the play-by-play announcer enthusiastically welcoming his audience live to a competition unfolding on the screen.

But this is no ordinary competition.

“It’s the final of the two lonely blokes in a park contest,’’ the announcer, Nick Heath, begins, setting the scene of two men idly kicking a ball in a park.

When one of the men clips the ball and sends it rolling in the opposite direction, Mr. Heath observes: “Oh, that was absolutely terrible. It’s what we’ve come to expect really from these two.”