The show was good and has been stale for years, it's the same old jokes week after week, does anyone really care who the stig is or what times celebrities pushing a new film get?
Get rid of the 3 of them (the other 2 are just side kicks) and give the show a new lease of life.
How can you call Clarkson racist? Because he said one thing that on a seriously tangible basis was racist in a TV special, he therefore looks at all races besides his own in disgust?
Think it's had it's day. Used to enjoy it but stopped years ago, the scripted conversions make me cringe.
This for me. Some of the challenges are quite funny, but the 'ad libs' have lost their spark a bit. It's just three man children in fatally stonewashed jeans having a bit of a knowing circle jerk
The show was good and has been stale for years, it's the same old jokes week after week, does anyone really care who the stig is or what times celebrities pushing a new film get?
Get rid of the 3 of them (the other 2 are just side kicks) and give the show a new lease of life.
2 million people every Sunday night do.
And the rest - more like 6 million according to BARB
How can you call Clarkson racist? Because he said one thing that on a serious tangible basis was racist in a TV special, he therefore looks at all races besides his own in disgust?
I may be considered a bit of a leftie but I have read and enjoyed Clarkson books although I’ve read enough now as they are not that different and I enjoy Top Gear, even though it has changed from unmissable to something I’ll watch on catch up later. Clarkson has created a manchild persona that has made him very rich – whilst I don’t doubt he leans to the right, I don’t see how anybody can get offended by anything he says when he adopts that persona. It is a character like Alf Garnett was a character. I never thought he really wanted to shoot strikers so could see the funny side in what he said. It is just, everything has a shelf life and this may have presented the BBC with an opportunity to freshen the show up. I suppose whilst the bits in the studio are filmed this week, the other bits have already been filmed and heavily feature him so understandable why the show has ben cancelled. But it would be unfortunate, if they do sack him, if they don’t look at how they can move the show on as this is definitely an opportunity.
I would imagine if I punched my boss I’d get the sack so not sure why there should be a petition as why it should be any different for anybody else. If a footballer punched his manager, he’ll get the sack too – in most cases. So this is surely the end of his BBC career. I doubt ITV or Channel 4 will want him, but Channel 5 or sky could beckon. Anything he does with them is bound to be rubbish though. His character needs contrasts to work.
I don't know the rights and wrongs of the latest Clarkson affair but I do know that a former Deputy Prime Minister was allowed to continue in post after punching a member of the public.
How can you call Clarkson racist? Because he said one thing that on a serious tangible basis was racist in a TV special, he therefore looks at all races besides his own in disgust?
You lefties drive me nuts
Which one thing are you referring to? The 'slope' line? The Mexican thing? The N word outtake? The constant references to the French in WW2?
I can't say as I know whether the man is fundamentally racist, but I do know he says stupid things to get attention. Not sure what political party you'd attribute me to for that though.
I would imagine if I punched my boss I’d get the sack so not sure why there should be a petition as why it should be any different for anybody else. If a footballer punched his manager, he’ll get the sack too – in most cases.
But, as reported, it's much worse than that. He didn't hit a bullying boss who was getting on his tits. Just some poor old gofer who had been given the grand title of Asst. Producer to take his mind off his lowly pay-grade and had forgotten to get Clarkson's sandwich and coffee. He is the nasty bullying boss here and needs a fecking great kick in the bollocks.
I don't know the rights and wrongs of the latest Clarkson affair but I do know that a former Deputy Prime Minister was allowed to continue in post after punching a member of the public.
I'm still angry about Prescot throwing that punch.
I would imagine if I punched my boss I’d get the sack so not sure why there should be a petition as why it should be any different for anybody else. If a footballer punched his manager, he’ll get the sack too – in most cases.
But, as reported, it's much worse than that. He didn't hit a bullying boss who was getting on his tits. Just some poor old gofer who had been given the grand title of Asst. Producer to take his mind off his lowly pay-grade and had forgotten to get Clarkson's sandwich and coffee. He is the nasty bullying boss here and needs a fecking great kick in the bollocks.
So we have an inside track on this? Cool. Reminds me a bit of Soccer AM. Lovejoy made that place a working hell with his ego. nobody was sorry to see him go.
As much as I want to believe that, however, something tells me the gopher involved must've done something to rile him beyond forgetting a coffee!?
I would imagine if I punched my boss I’d get the sack so not sure why there should be a petition as why it should be any different for anybody else. If a footballer punched his manager, he’ll get the sack too – in most cases.
But, as reported, it's much worse than that. He didn't hit a bullying boss who was getting on his tits. Just some poor old gofer who had been given the grand title of Asst. Producer to take his mind off his lowly pay-grade and had forgotten to get Clarkson's sandwich and coffee. He is the nasty bullying boss here and needs a fecking great kick in the bollocks.
So we have an inside track on this? Cool. Reminds me a bit of Soccer AM. Lovejoy made that place a working hell with his ego. nobody was sorry to see him go.
As much as I want to believe that, however, something tells me the gopher involved must've done something to rile him beyond forgetting a coffee!?
Edited to add if it all turns out to be a pack of lies, i shall make a youtube video apologising most profusely for wanting Clarkson's bollocks kicked off. Ahh, no, on second thoughts I won't.
Im not surprised about Lovejoy. Used to watch him and he made me squirm... he came across Pardewesque in his love for himself. I cant watch that programme he's on because of it.
How can you call Clarkson racist? Because he said one thing that on a serious tangible basis was racist in a TV special, he therefore looks at all races besides his own in disgust?
You lefties drive me nuts
Yeah bloody lefties thinking it's wrong to use the 'N' word, or homophobic terms on TV in 2015, call Asian's slopes, Romanian's gypsies or brand all Mexicans as immigrants.
We haven't had it for a while so here's the infamous Lovejoy review
Soccer AM is a bad memory: hungover mornings in other people’s flats, disturbed by a crew of whooping simpletons, the slurping of pro and ex-pro rectums, cobbled-together comedy that made me long for the glory days of Skinner and Baddiel’s old shit. Yet Tim Lovejoy himself, with his fashionably receding hair and voice oddly reminiscent of Rod Hull’s, I remember only as an averagely blokey TV presenter – in fact, one of the few averagely blokey TV presenters to make me clack my tongue in irritation, rather than buff my Gurkha knife. Other than as a namesake of The Simpsons’ self-serving man of the cloth, he barely registered; just a bland, blond ringmaster in a cocky circus of crap. Almost a surprise, then, to find that his new book is not just tedious in the extreme, it is utterly vile.
Chopped into “chapters” that barely fill a page, in a font size usually associated with books for the partially sighted, Lovejoy on Football is part autobiography, part witless musing, and one more triumph for the crass stupidity rapidly replacing culture in this country. Hopelessly banal and nauseatingly self-assured, smirkingly unfunny, it’s a £300 T-shirt, a piss-you-off ringtone, a YouTube clip of someone drinking their mate’s vomit. Its smugness is a corollary of its vacuity. I hope it makes you sick.
First, it’s clear that being Tim Lovejoy requires a very special blend of arrogance and ignorance. When he’s not listing his media achievements with a breathtaking lack of guile, he’s sneering at those “sad” enough to take an interest in football history, revealing his utter cluelessness about life outside the Premier League (in a section called “Know Your Silverware”, he refers to “League Three”) and making sundry gaffes, major and minor. He names Johan Cruyff as his all-time favourite player, then admits he’s only seen that five-second World Cup clip of the Cruyff turn. Grumbling about footballers’ musical tastes, he complains that “all you’ll hear blasting out of the team dressing room is R&B, rather than what the rest of the country is listening to” – by which he means indie bands. Everywhere there are jaw-dropping illustrations of insularity, self-satisfaction and a startlingly small mind.
There’s something sinister here, too: beamingly positive, thrilled by wealth, too pleased with himself to ask awkward questions, Tim Lovejoy is the football fan Sepp Blatter has been waiting for. Roman Abramovich’s darling young one. Not least for his complacency: his lack of understanding of how football works (and doesn’t work) is best illustrated in a section called “Give Your Chairman A Break”, in which he defends “that Thai bloke at Man City”, and implores us to “look at the Glazers... you would have thought they were nothing but a bunch of Americans intent on buying the club and selling off Old Trafford to Tesco judging by the howl of protests from the fans. Within two seasons though, they had won the title and built a squad the envy of Europe.” Bang your head off the wall at such unreviewable stupidity – Tim’s infantile ideas of shunning “negativity” prod him into precisely the kind of thinking that has had such hugely negative influence on the game. “Look across our national team” – he means England, by the way – “and there isn’t one player who wouldn’t walk into any side in Europe... why is it, before every tournament, we start believing we’re overrated?”
And, surprise: Lovejoy is as wretched a starfucker as could be inferred from his television shows. Everyone in football is Tim’s mate (and here we have pictures to prove it, stars looking confused in his grinning, over-familiar presence, frozen by an arm around the shoulders). He’ll “even watch the occasional game of rugby now, because I’m friends with a lot of the players like Will Greenwood, Matt Dawson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Austin Healy”.
It’s perhaps telling that among the many anecdotes offered here, the most heartwarming (and least surprising) involves Tim getting clattered hard by Neil Ruddock in a charity game; even in this version of the story, there’s nothing to suggest Razor meant it affectionately. Still, our man is blinded by quite astonishing hubris, reprinting a photo of a banner at Anfield reading “LOVEJOY SUCKS BIG FAT COCKS” with a glee that is nothing like self-deprecation. “The hardest thing about leaving Soccer AM,” he says regretfully, “is the thought that I might no longer be influencing the game.” True, it’ll be tough. But who knows? Perhaps the game will struggle on.
It’s not that there was ever a time when football on telly wasn’t in the hands of dimwits, poseurs and blowhards. It’s not that Lovejoy is significantly more objectionable than TV shits of ages past. The point is, in his own mind and that of the powers that be, he’s one of us. He is us. Savour that. God help us.
Top Gear used to be interesting in the 60/70s when New Cars were Road Tested and shown perspective buyers good and bad points.But now its just a programme for so called grown men acting like kids.Its about time the BBC pulled it for good.
It subsidises a lot of the other crap the BBC churn out. "So called grown men acting like kids" are they harming anyone? Perhaps they are even having fun. What annoys me more is that they can cover up for a nonce for God knows how many years, yet when an argument gets out of hand they look at it as a golden opportunity to get rid of someone who doesn't toe the lefty line.
Top Gear used to be interesting in the 60/70s when New Cars were Road Tested and shown perspective buyers good and bad points.But now its just a programme for so called grown men acting like kids.Its about time the BBC pulled it for good.
It subsidises a lot of the other crab the BBC churn out. "So called grown men acting like kids" are they harming anyone? Perhaps they are even having fun. What annoys me more is that they can cover up for a nonce for God knows how many years, yet when an argument gets out of hand they look at it as a golden opportunity to get rid of someone who doesn't toe the lefty line.
Top Gear used to be interesting in the 60/70s when New Cars were Road Tested and shown perspective buyers good and bad points.But now its just a programme for so called grown men acting like kids.Its about time the BBC pulled it for good.
It subsidises a lot of the other crab the BBC churn out. "So called grown men acting like kids" are they harming anyone? Perhaps they are even having fun. What annoys me more is that they can cover up for a nonce for God knows how many years, yet when an argument gets out of hand they look at it as a golden opportunity to get rid of someone who doesn't toe the lefty line.
Yeah, I think that's how it works, the Jimmy Saville case sets precedent and we now use this as a benchmark for what's acceptable. Anything that falls below what he did on the depravity scale should go unpunished in the interests of consistency.
Top Gear used to be interesting in the 60/70s when New Cars were Road Tested and shown perspective buyers good and bad points.But now its just a programme for so called grown men acting like kids.Its about time the BBC pulled it for good.
It subsidises a lot of the other crap the BBC churn out. "So called grown men acting like kids" are they harming anyone? Perhaps they are even having fun. What annoys me more is that they can cover up for a nonce for God knows how many years, yet when an argument gets out of hand they look at it as a golden opportunity to get rid of someone who doesn't toe the lefty line.
Ffs if that were true they have had plenty of opportunities to give him the boot.
Top Gear used to be interesting in the 60/70s when New Cars were Road Tested and shown perspective buyers good and bad points.But now its just a programme for so called grown men acting like kids.Its about time the BBC pulled it for good.
It subsidises a lot of the other crab the BBC churn out. "So called grown men acting like kids" are they harming anyone? Perhaps they are even having fun. What annoys me more is that they can cover up for a nonce for God knows how many years, yet when an argument gets out of hand they look at it as a golden opportunity to get rid of someone who doesn't toe the lefty line.
Yeah, I think that's how it works, the Jimmy Saville case sets precedent and we now use this as a benchmark for what's acceptable. Anything that falls below what he did on the depravity scale should go unpunished in the interests of consistency.
Top Gear used to be interesting in the 60/70s when New Cars were Road Tested and shown perspective buyers good and bad points.But now its just a programme for so called grown men acting like kids.Its about time the BBC pulled it for good.
It subsidises a lot of the other crab the BBC churn out. "So called grown men acting like kids" are they harming anyone? Perhaps they are even having fun. What annoys me more is that they can cover up for a nonce for God knows how many years, yet when an argument gets out of hand they look at it as a golden opportunity to get rid of someone who doesn't toe the lefty line.
Top Gear used to be interesting in the 60/70s when New Cars were Road Tested and shown perspective buyers good and bad points.But now its just a programme for so called grown men acting like kids.Its about time the BBC pulled it for good.
It subsidises a lot of the other crab the BBC churn out. "So called grown men acting like kids" are they harming anyone? Perhaps they are even having fun. What annoys me more is that they can cover up for a nonce for God knows how many years, yet when an argument gets out of hand they look at it as a golden opportunity to get rid of someone who doesn't toe the lefty line.
Hilarious.
Got a point though ain't he
No, no, I'm not... Must... Resist... Must .... Resist...
We haven't had it for a while so here's the infamous Lovejoy review
Soccer AM is a bad memory: hungover mornings in other people’s flats, disturbed by a crew of whooping simpletons, the slurping of pro and ex-pro rectums, cobbled-together comedy that made me long for the glory days of Skinner and Baddiel’s old shit. Yet Tim Lovejoy himself, with his fashionably receding hair and voice oddly reminiscent of Rod Hull’s, I remember only as an averagely blokey TV presenter – in fact, one of the few averagely blokey TV presenters to make me clack my tongue in irritation, rather than buff my Gurkha knife. Other than as a namesake of The Simpsons’ self-serving man of the cloth, he barely registered; just a bland, blond ringmaster in a cocky circus of crap. Almost a surprise, then, to find that his new book is not just tedious in the extreme, it is utterly vile.
Chopped into “chapters” that barely fill a page, in a font size usually associated with books for the partially sighted, Lovejoy on Football is part autobiography, part witless musing, and one more triumph for the crass stupidity rapidly replacing culture in this country. Hopelessly banal and nauseatingly self-assured, smirkingly unfunny, it’s a £300 T-shirt, a piss-you-off ringtone, a YouTube clip of someone drinking their mate’s vomit. Its smugness is a corollary of its vacuity. I hope it makes you sick.
First, it’s clear that being Tim Lovejoy requires a very special blend of arrogance and ignorance. When he’s not listing his media achievements with a breathtaking lack of guile, he’s sneering at those “sad” enough to take an interest in football history, revealing his utter cluelessness about life outside the Premier League (in a section called “Know Your Silverware”, he refers to “League Three”) and making sundry gaffes, major and minor. He names Johan Cruyff as his all-time favourite player, then admits he’s only seen that five-second World Cup clip of the Cruyff turn. Grumbling about footballers’ musical tastes, he complains that “all you’ll hear blasting out of the team dressing room is R&B, rather than what the rest of the country is listening to” – by which he means indie bands. Everywhere there are jaw-dropping illustrations of insularity, self-satisfaction and a startlingly small mind.
There’s something sinister here, too: beamingly positive, thrilled by wealth, too pleased with himself to ask awkward questions, Tim Lovejoy is the football fan Sepp Blatter has been waiting for. Roman Abramovich’s darling young one. Not least for his complacency: his lack of understanding of how football works (and doesn’t work) is best illustrated in a section called “Give Your Chairman A Break”, in which he defends “that Thai bloke at Man City”, and implores us to “look at the Glazers... you would have thought they were nothing but a bunch of Americans intent on buying the club and selling off Old Trafford to Tesco judging by the howl of protests from the fans. Within two seasons though, they had won the title and built a squad the envy of Europe.” Bang your head off the wall at such unreviewable stupidity – Tim’s infantile ideas of shunning “negativity” prod him into precisely the kind of thinking that has had such hugely negative influence on the game. “Look across our national team” – he means England, by the way – “and there isn’t one player who wouldn’t walk into any side in Europe... why is it, before every tournament, we start believing we’re overrated?”
And, surprise: Lovejoy is as wretched a starfucker as could be inferred from his television shows. Everyone in football is Tim’s mate (and here we have pictures to prove it, stars looking confused in his grinning, over-familiar presence, frozen by an arm around the shoulders). He’ll “even watch the occasional game of rugby now, because I’m friends with a lot of the players like Will Greenwood, Matt Dawson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Austin Healy”.
It’s perhaps telling that among the many anecdotes offered here, the most heartwarming (and least surprising) involves Tim getting clattered hard by Neil Ruddock in a charity game; even in this version of the story, there’s nothing to suggest Razor meant it affectionately. Still, our man is blinded by quite astonishing hubris, reprinting a photo of a banner at Anfield reading “LOVEJOY SUCKS BIG FAT COCKS” with a glee that is nothing like self-deprecation. “The hardest thing about leaving Soccer AM,” he says regretfully, “is the thought that I might no longer be influencing the game.” True, it’ll be tough. But who knows? Perhaps the game will struggle on.
It’s not that there was ever a time when football on telly wasn’t in the hands of dimwits, poseurs and blowhards. It’s not that Lovejoy is significantly more objectionable than TV shits of ages past. The point is, in his own mind and that of the powers that be, he’s one of us. He is us. Savour that. God help us.
bbc turned a blind eye to Jimmy Saville, not saying the two are the same but Clarkson, despite his popularity has to be reigned in and take responsibility for his actions. His attitude thus far suggests he still thinks he is to famous and popular for that! Why sign a petition to support that sort of alleged behaviour?
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You lefties drive me nuts
I would imagine if I punched my boss I’d get the sack so not sure why there should be a petition as why it should be any different for anybody else. If a footballer punched his manager, he’ll get the sack too – in most cases. So this is surely the end of his BBC career. I doubt ITV or Channel 4 will want him, but Channel 5 or sky could beckon. Anything he does with them is bound to be rubbish though. His character needs contrasts to work.
I can't say as I know whether the man is fundamentally racist, but I do know he says stupid things to get attention. Not sure what political party you'd attribute me to for that though.
He is the nasty bullying boss here and needs a fecking great kick in the bollocks.
He should have flored the egg throwing twat.
As much as I want to believe that, however, something tells me the gopher involved must've done something to rile him beyond forgetting a coffee!?
Edited to add if it all turns out to be a pack of lies, i shall make a youtube video apologising most profusely for wanting Clarkson's bollocks kicked off. Ahh, no, on second thoughts I won't.
"So called grown men acting like kids" are they harming anyone? Perhaps they are even having fun.
What annoys me more is that they can cover up for a nonce for God knows how many years, yet when an argument gets out of hand they look at it as a golden opportunity to get rid of someone who doesn't toe the lefty line.
This is not easy, so easy to mistake them for each other.