Ha, David Pleat is a sort of freakish TV institution over here, presumably at this stage only employed to say his token daft zingers. They tried something similar with Bobby Robson, but it was less funny because you suspect that while Pleat is a wackjob, Robson is just a old tired man who doesn't know what's going on half the time.
Pleat is hilarious. I saw him hosting that ITV documentary about the England managers. Unintentional comedy at its best at times.