Friday, June 02, 2006
More World Cup moaning
And another thing...
This year is going to be probably the worst in terms of the coverage of the bloody thing.
It's bad enough watching England play in the pub when you've got crowds of people getting in the way of the screen and spouting the most bollocks possible. Any bad pass and the player is deemed to be rubbish.
There's also the cry of "Why didn't he pick so and so?" "Because he's crap" is the usual answer.
My big problem, however, stems from the coverage by BBC and ITV. It used to be automatic that you'd watch BBC. They had the best commentators, best analysts and also Des Lynam.
But now...
Motty is years and years past his sell by date. For some reason, BBC think he's an institution and everyone loves him. We don't. Give us a decent commentator. At least Graeme Le Saux and Peter Schmeichel went off in huffs but Garth Crooks? Do me a favour. He's terrible and the worst thing about that is he's improved from being execrable.
Then of course we have Ian 'I love England but never did anything for them when I was a player' Wright. The man's an idiot. He adds nothing to the analysis except for making a prat of himself every time he opens his mouth. BBC claim he's the man on the street-type figure. I get enough of them when I'm watching the game in the pub. And they annoy me too.
What the BBC should be doing is providing analysis of why the game has gone like it has and what the teams need to do to improve. Instead, we get Motty complaining about the offside law (It isn't that difficult, John. Just try keeping up with the game and learn what's going on - that is your job after all), Wrighty spouting bollocks and Garth rambling on and on until he comes to a question.
At the last World Cup, ITV actually had the better panel, though they still suffer from really bad adverts and whoever is sponsoring their coverage having the most annoying ads by week two.
They at least had people who knew what was going on and, in Gary Neville, someone who knew the England boys and could report on how they would approach the game etc.
But they seem to have got up their own arses as well. Andy Townsend and Ally McCoist are pretty good individually. Not as a team so stop putting them together. I like Clyde Tyldesley as a commentator but David Pleat? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh.
Of course the other problem will be the phrase ' press the red button for...' I don't have a red button. Sod off and give me good stuff on proper tv. And stop asking for people's emails. They really add sod all to the broadcast.
And reasons for not listening to matches on Radio Five? Two words. Alan (I can't help being opinionated)Green. Yes you can. All the other commentators can do it and I bet you could as well.
The World cup should be a great tournament. But all the peripheral things just turn me off.
This year is going to be probably the worst in terms of the coverage of the bloody thing.
It's bad enough watching England play in the pub when you've got crowds of people getting in the way of the screen and spouting the most bollocks possible. Any bad pass and the player is deemed to be rubbish.
There's also the cry of "Why didn't he pick so and so?" "Because he's crap" is the usual answer.
My big problem, however, stems from the coverage by BBC and ITV. It used to be automatic that you'd watch BBC. They had the best commentators, best analysts and also Des Lynam.
But now...
Motty is years and years past his sell by date. For some reason, BBC think he's an institution and everyone loves him. We don't. Give us a decent commentator. At least Graeme Le Saux and Peter Schmeichel went off in huffs but Garth Crooks? Do me a favour. He's terrible and the worst thing about that is he's improved from being execrable.
Then of course we have Ian 'I love England but never did anything for them when I was a player' Wright. The man's an idiot. He adds nothing to the analysis except for making a prat of himself every time he opens his mouth. BBC claim he's the man on the street-type figure. I get enough of them when I'm watching the game in the pub. And they annoy me too.
What the BBC should be doing is providing analysis of why the game has gone like it has and what the teams need to do to improve. Instead, we get Motty complaining about the offside law (It isn't that difficult, John. Just try keeping up with the game and learn what's going on - that is your job after all), Wrighty spouting bollocks and Garth rambling on and on until he comes to a question.
At the last World Cup, ITV actually had the better panel, though they still suffer from really bad adverts and whoever is sponsoring their coverage having the most annoying ads by week two.
They at least had people who knew what was going on and, in Gary Neville, someone who knew the England boys and could report on how they would approach the game etc.
But they seem to have got up their own arses as well. Andy Townsend and Ally McCoist are pretty good individually. Not as a team so stop putting them together. I like Clyde Tyldesley as a commentator but David Pleat? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh.
Of course the other problem will be the phrase ' press the red button for...' I don't have a red button. Sod off and give me good stuff on proper tv. And stop asking for people's emails. They really add sod all to the broadcast.
And reasons for not listening to matches on Radio Five? Two words. Alan (I can't help being opinionated)Green. Yes you can. All the other commentators can do it and I bet you could as well.
The World cup should be a great tournament. But all the peripheral things just turn me off.
