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caddymanTonight I intend to put my feet up, absorb some pizza and maybe potato salad. I might even have a bottle of BEER. This is because England are playing Ukraine in a World Cup Qualifier at Wembley. I haven’t watched a full game between anyone for ages, so I shall enjoy a bit of football, particularly if the result goes in the desired direction.
Coverage starts at 7.30, with kick off at 8.00. I shall probably cut the first half hour of punditry and banalities. Teddy Sheringham may have been a great footballer in his day and Joe Cole arguably still is, but as talking heads on the telly, well…
Anyway. I likes me a bit of football, but even I am beginning to think that ITV1 have lost the plot entirely and have given up trying. They are clearly trying to make up for last month’s farce when they cut away from a game in extra time and showed adverts while the winning goal was scored.1 To cover themselves against similar stupidity tonight, they have gone overboard in the opposite direction. Between 7.30 and 10.10 they are showing the game live and subjecting viewers to related ‘analysis’. Then there is ITN news for half an hour before they transmit the highlights of the game they previously showed live. Once upon a time they would have done that in the small wee hours for insomniacs, but now they have just decided that saturation coverage and repeat of the same game is enough for the entire evening.
Wait for the BBC to hoover up the evening’s ratings with The Apprentice from 9.00.
It’s too much; if you are going to saturate the channel with football at least show highlights from other games!
1They, or at least the old Carlton are old hands at this, though it passed unremarked. I recall some years ago, that they took a single camera to a game and had it focussed on one of the managers when the only goal of the game was scored. By way of a replay they showed us the manager yawn again.
Coverage starts at 7.30, with kick off at 8.00. I shall probably cut the first half hour of punditry and banalities. Teddy Sheringham may have been a great footballer in his day and Joe Cole arguably still is, but as talking heads on the telly, well…
Anyway. I likes me a bit of football, but even I am beginning to think that ITV1 have lost the plot entirely and have given up trying. They are clearly trying to make up for last month’s farce when they cut away from a game in extra time and showed adverts while the winning goal was scored.1 To cover themselves against similar stupidity tonight, they have gone overboard in the opposite direction. Between 7.30 and 10.10 they are showing the game live and subjecting viewers to related ‘analysis’. Then there is ITN news for half an hour before they transmit the highlights of the game they previously showed live. Once upon a time they would have done that in the small wee hours for insomniacs, but now they have just decided that saturation coverage and repeat of the same game is enough for the entire evening.
Wait for the BBC to hoover up the evening’s ratings with The Apprentice from 9.00.
It’s too much; if you are going to saturate the channel with football at least show highlights from other games!
1They, or at least the old Carlton are old hands at this, though it passed unremarked. I recall some years ago, that they took a single camera to a game and had it focussed on one of the managers when the only goal of the game was scored. By way of a replay they showed us the manager yawn again.