I know this blog claims to be about films but I may have to change that and add TV as well. This rant comes courtesy of ITV's sport's coverage. Where do I start? At the beginning, when the Beeb lost MOTD (match of the day) to ITV1 a couple of years back, football viewers had the unpleasant choice of watching The Premiership.
Now, The Premiership hasn't been on our telly screens for a while now, thank God (He watches as well, he's a West Ham fan). But they do have the rights to the FA Cup this season and I have suffered listening to Peter Drury or Clive Tyldesley (left) try to commentate their way through 90 minutes. Here's one from the man Clive- “He’s not George Best, but then again, no-one is.” Last night's England game was a prime example of the poor quality of commentary displayed on the channel. He was joined last night by another poor pundit Andy Townsend, who on Tuesday was Irish but miraculously swapped nationalities on Wednesday evening. He was English not Egypitan, keep up. A cracker from Clive here 'The Egyptians were apparently passing in pyramids' not triangles. *sigh*.
We now head to the pundit's box where Steve Wilson who escaped BBC's Grandstand (remember the theme tune?) was with the most boring man in football Gareth Southgate, nice tie and Paul Robinson, why? What was he meant to add, he could have been out there. Was that ITV making a sly dig at Paul making him watch the match in the studio. I bet they were all cracking jokes during the game when Rob Green made a save or catch, I would have done. Then we have the analysis, they didn't even show Egypt's goal! We must go to a break, you see the little black and white flashing thing in the corner as soon as the ref's whistle blows. Then another break, and you have to suffer 'We buy any car' advert, don't get me started.
This week brings the FA Cup back to our screens, what punditry delights await us. I wait with bated breath. They have all four games, hopefully Mr Tyldesley can make his way to all of the games to commentate, please Clive do it for Tom. The highlights package is also terrible as they show the game they aired a couple of hours ago on first. Whoever is in charge of their sport's output, should take a long look at the footage they are broadcasting and have a re-think.
Now, The Premiership hasn't been on our telly screens for a while now, thank God (He watches as well, he's a West Ham fan). But they do have the rights to the FA Cup this season and I have suffered listening to Peter Drury or Clive Tyldesley (left) try to commentate their way through 90 minutes. Here's one from the man Clive- “He’s not George Best, but then again, no-one is.” Last night's England game was a prime example of the poor quality of commentary displayed on the channel. He was joined last night by another poor pundit Andy Townsend, who on Tuesday was Irish but miraculously swapped nationalities on Wednesday evening. He was English not Egypitan, keep up. A cracker from Clive here 'The Egyptians were apparently passing in pyramids' not triangles. *sigh*.
We now head to the pundit's box where Steve Wilson who escaped BBC's Grandstand (remember the theme tune?) was with the most boring man in football Gareth Southgate, nice tie and Paul Robinson, why? What was he meant to add, he could have been out there. Was that ITV making a sly dig at Paul making him watch the match in the studio. I bet they were all cracking jokes during the game when Rob Green made a save or catch, I would have done. Then we have the analysis, they didn't even show Egypt's goal! We must go to a break, you see the little black and white flashing thing in the corner as soon as the ref's whistle blows. Then another break, and you have to suffer 'We buy any car' advert, don't get me started.
This week brings the FA Cup back to our screens, what punditry delights await us. I wait with bated breath. They have all four games, hopefully Mr Tyldesley can make his way to all of the games to commentate, please Clive do it for Tom. The highlights package is also terrible as they show the game they aired a couple of hours ago on first. Whoever is in charge of their sport's output, should take a long look at the footage they are broadcasting and have a re-think.
Now, the BBC are not invincible from criticism or Sky for that matter, take Andy Gray and John Motson for example. Andy gets on my tits, I don't see why he thinks he can say the things he does and Motty, well, he is just past it. 98 days to go till the World Cup and I have some advice for my readers out there (if there are any) watch BBC's coverage and when England's games are on the other channel turn off the volume and listen to the radio's commentary.
Peace out.
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