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New season, same old s*** from the BBC

Within five minutes of the start of their flagship new football show:

"We especially want to hear from Newcastle fans..."
Then a re-run of the Newcastle game (despite showing it live less than six hours previously)
Followed by an interview with the Newcastle manager (but not the West Brom one)
Followed by Steve Claridge saying Newcastle completely dominated the game (despite admitting that the Newcastle sub keeper pulling off three world-class saves)

On the plus side, though, nice of them to pull out all the stops on the set and have them broadcasting from... a cave.
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  • Fcuk me Leroy - that's a very spooky post!
  • Holy s***!

    I'm starting to think you and me were separated at birth.
  • It's not just the beeb. Pro-Newcastle bias permeates throughout the football media like a nasty disease.

    Also, will the BBC please, for the love of god, get Alan Sheerer/Lee Dickson to either not wear really tight trousers or just keep their f**king legs closed!
  • This show is the pits
  • At least the email woman isn't annoying!
  • million miles better then the ITV coverage
  • [cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]million miles better then the ITV coverage

    The BBC could just transmit the test card image of the girl with the blackboard and it would be better than ITV's football coverage
  • [cite]Posted By: PeakieRocket[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]million miles better then the ITV coverage

    The BBC could just transmit the test card image of the girl with the blackboard and it would be better than ITV's football coverage
    Agreed. That's the very definition of 'damning with faint praise' Rothers
  • [cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]million miles better then the ITV coverage

    not in my opinion, this is pretty grim.

    If Claridge and Holloway are the two most articulate football pundits the beeb can find, then good luck to us all.
  • Too much waffle - not enough football. Who cares what Holloway thinks?
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  • WTF - anyone else's goals round up just cut out for 20 seconds to a woman sitting on the khazi?!
  • [cite]Posted By: Airman Brown[/cite]Too much waffle - not enough football. Who cares what Holloway thinks?

    Oh but don't forget, he's all that and a bag of chips...........
  • [cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Airman Brown[/cite]Too much waffle - not enough football. Who cares what Holloway thinks?

    Oh but don't forget, he's all that and a bag of chips...........
    Haha - that actually did make me laugh. That geezer is a proper nutnut.
  • edited August 2009
    [cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]million miles better then the ITV coverage

    not in my opinion, this is pretty grim.

    If Claridge and Holloway are the two most articulate football pundits the beeb can find, then good luck to us all.

    Blimey, compared to Harry Redknapps milkmans son and Andy Townsend, there geniuses
  • [cite]Posted By: Off_it[/cite]WTF - anyone else's goals round up just cut out for 20 seconds to a woman sitting on the khazi?!

    Yeah mine did the same
  • Good one, Rothko !
  • Thought The Football League Show was okay, different approach from ITV (who tried to be a bit more journalistic, but got screwed over by reduced running times and whatnot) , but that set and general look is shite - once it's on next week it'll look a bit tryhard after MOTD, it should be a bit more relaxed and less desperate to impress. Match highlights seemed pretty decent - first time anyone's tried showing all the goals on a Saturday night week after week.

    Start of the WBA v Newcastle match was ridiculously biased towards the barcodes - suppose they wanted to get Shearer on so he could give his tedious whine, but it did just indulge the media fascination with Newcastle. Shame as WBA seem to be becoming the only team in recent years who are actually equipped to cope with being a yo-yo side - more interested in how they're doing this year, to be honest.
  • West Brom v Newcastle on iPlayer if you want to see for yourself - Lineker introduces it as if it's coverage of an under-11s match. "oooh, it's so exciting!"


    The Football League Show will be here during Sunday
  • "We particularly want to hear your views"

    Well that might be a bit difficult at just before midnight as most people are either out , in bed or too drunk at just before sodding midnight on a Saturday night.

    And as someone else pointed out here something which we've all been saying for years is we'd rather have more action and less waffle.

    I long since stopped watching these "highlight" programmes live and always sky+ them so I can skip the crap .
  • Yeah i don't really understand why they chat and waffle so much, who is it that thinks 'lets get these washed up ex pro's to chat bile about clubs they don't understand so the viewing public can be in awe of their knowledge, after all they don't tune in to see the football they want to see Alan She-rah's piece and listen to the absolute know nothings point of view'

    Whoever makes these decisions in tv company production meetings really need shooting!!

    Didn't see the show however, will iPlayer it later as at fecking nigh on 12 midnight whats the frigging point. I have always hated the time they decide to show these shows too, kids love football, i did when i was a nipper, but was never allowed to stay up to watch it. I hate media, tv radio newspapers, they are all such pricks that run them!!
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  • Same old let's focus on the big clubs for me. 27 seconds of the Charlton game. No mention of Pardew taking over at Saints.

    Oh and is it BBC quota filling or is that woman with the double barrelled surname really the best presenter that applied for the job? Not being sexist as i think women like gabby logan. helen chamberlain (even though i despise soccer am) merit their jobs but seriously doubt the credentials of the woman with the insight last night.
  • edited August 2009
    [cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]million miles better then the ITV coverage

    not in my opinion, this is pretty grim.

    If Claridge and Holloway are the two most articulate football pundits the beeb can find, then good luck to us all.

    Blimey, compared to Harry Redknapps milkmans son and Andy Townsend, there geniuses

    I think Andy Townsend is a damn fine commentator...in fact, one of the best around.
  • [cite]Posted By: Airman Brown[/cite]Too much waffle - not enough football. Who cares what Holloway thinks?

    exactly. I'm watching on iplayer, and it's awful. I've skipped through most of it so far to try and find some football to watch.

    The bald bloke doing interviews at cardiff sounds like he should be doing children's tv.

    Why do they find it so hard to put these shows together? how difficult is it?
  • Agree with most of the above, Claridge is ok, talks sense, hear him a lot on Radio 5 but as for the set; it sounded like it was coming from a shed, also agree the girl with the double barrelled name, a waste of space. The commentators on both radio and tv seemed to watching a different game from me, WBA should have won by three goals.
  • [cite]Posted By: Off_it[/cite]WTF - anyone else's goals round up just cut out for 20 seconds to a woman sitting on the khazi?!
    Just watching the programme now, recorded last night. Yes, I got this too, had to err, rewind it to check this had really happened.....best part of the programme!!!!
  • [cite]Posted By: RodneyCharltonTrotta[/cite]Oh and is it BBC quota filling or is that woman with the double barrelled surname really the best presenter that applied for the job? Not being sexist as i think women like gabby logan. helen chamberlain (even though i despise soccer am) merit their jobs but seriously doubt the credentials of the woman with the insight last night.

    Yeah she was shocking, also hated the way she was perched on a desk, sit on a foookin chair woman!! Also what made me laugh about it was when that manoosh presenter dude wanted to talk to her asking what Naaarwich fans were saying, the camara panned up so you could see the cave part of the studio and the bird on the desk, then manoosh yelled the question to her, i was cringing and laughing all at the same time!! What a crock of shite showing the WBA barcode game first when it was on frigging live a few hours earlier!! No sod cares about the laughing stock of football anyway, Newcastle are a joke.
  • [cite]Posted By: SaySomething[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Off_it[/cite]WTF - anyone else's goals round up just cut out for 20 seconds to a woman sitting on the khazi?!
    Just watching the programme now, recorded last night. Yes, I got this too, had to err, rewind it to check this had really happened.....best part of the programme!!!!

    How far in did that occur, i rushed through it and watched parts only, so didn't catch the bird on bog bit??
  • edited August 2009
    I think it was better than Itv's piss poor coverage but that doesn't really say much, the woman with the e-mails was utterly garbage- why the f@ck do the BBC think anyone really cares what some down south twat who supports Newcastle thinks about anything, all this air your views thru e-mail and text on TV and radio is grating in my view. I have to concur more football less waffle would be the way to go. Oh and that bird on the bog thing, I got that too- very professional from the beeb I must say, must have got the work experience Wayne's World reject in to run the station last night.
  • The trouble is, the BBC is in a permanent state of shitting itself about its future, so sees "interactivity" - soliciting e-mails and text messages about any old bollocks - as a way to make people value it, in the same way that you supposedly value your local paper because sometimes you might see your street in it. Basically, some idiot saw 606 and thought, "well, that's good, we'll have a bit of that" - think blonde woman came from there.

    [cite]Posted By: MCS[/cite]Yeah i don't really understand why they chat and waffle so much, who is it that thinks 'lets get these washed up ex pro's to chat bile about clubs they don't understand so the viewing public can be in awe of their knowledge, after all they don't tune in to see the football they want to see Alan She-rah's piece and listen to the absolute know nothings point of view'

    Jeff Stelling's Saturday Drunk Tank on Sky yesterday was a prime example - know-nothing pundit number one waffled on about how we'd struggle, then know-nothing pundit number two said Norwich would do really well. I'd have liked to have seen the looks on their faces as Colchester's goals kept flying in.
  • That well known "journalist" Tony Cottee!!
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