Phil D. Rolls
13-06-2010, 09:57 AM
I'm actually starting to feel sorry for the England team, and the genuine football supporters who follow them.
I watched the match last night, completely unbiased of course. What I saw was a rousing contest between two teams. There was a goalkeeping howler which - as a Hibs fan - had me writhing in agony. (OK, after I'd come down off the celing). Most of all, both sets of players really got stuck into the match.
The football pundits gave a fair assessment of the match afterwards, IMO. What was clear was that no-one, apart from Kevin "Mad" Keegan, seemed to have underestimated USA, and they recognised that a point in this match was actually a good result.
Imagine my surprise then when the ITV news which followed devoted half of it's programme to the match, and took a highly sceptical and critical view of England's performance. We treated to the expert analysis of people who do not report on football, or sport at all.
What's grinding my gears is that these people, and the people who listen to them, have no love of football at all. They clearly don't have the depth required to follow a team through its ups and downs, instead they want to be right when the team does well, and right when it does badly.
It's a forlorn hope, but is their any chance the sports people could have a word with their colleagues in mainstream broadcasting and ask them to button it. I love football, but the whole thing is being spoiled by media overkill.
As for that show with James (?) Corden after the news. What can you say, I thought I seen it all but that has to be one of the most vaccuous, stultifying shows I have ever seen.
I'm beginning to appreciate how dementia sufferers feel when they watch telly. I saw what I recognised as people, but I could make no connection between what they were saying and what I was seeing. Katy Perry, at least had the decency to say she knew nothing about football and was just there to promote her single.
God saves us!
I watched the match last night, completely unbiased of course. What I saw was a rousing contest between two teams. There was a goalkeeping howler which - as a Hibs fan - had me writhing in agony. (OK, after I'd come down off the celing). Most of all, both sets of players really got stuck into the match.
The football pundits gave a fair assessment of the match afterwards, IMO. What was clear was that no-one, apart from Kevin "Mad" Keegan, seemed to have underestimated USA, and they recognised that a point in this match was actually a good result.
Imagine my surprise then when the ITV news which followed devoted half of it's programme to the match, and took a highly sceptical and critical view of England's performance. We treated to the expert analysis of people who do not report on football, or sport at all.
What's grinding my gears is that these people, and the people who listen to them, have no love of football at all. They clearly don't have the depth required to follow a team through its ups and downs, instead they want to be right when the team does well, and right when it does badly.
It's a forlorn hope, but is their any chance the sports people could have a word with their colleagues in mainstream broadcasting and ask them to button it. I love football, but the whole thing is being spoiled by media overkill.
As for that show with James (?) Corden after the news. What can you say, I thought I seen it all but that has to be one of the most vaccuous, stultifying shows I have ever seen.
I'm beginning to appreciate how dementia sufferers feel when they watch telly. I saw what I recognised as people, but I could make no connection between what they were saying and what I was seeing. Katy Perry, at least had the decency to say she knew nothing about football and was just there to promote her single.
God saves us!