I HATE TV FOOTBALL BROADCASTING

The whole thing does my nut in. The way after a half chance you have to see a replay of the same thing from fourteen different angles directly after while the match is going on and the ball is moving upfield. How the adverts are every two seconds in half-time and full-time. And what the f*** was with them interviewing the manager and players who'd just come off the pitch half way through the game?!?! Crazy, it angers me so much. Surely someone else agrees with me?!

I tend to turn the TV on five minutes prior to kick-off, wander off and do stuff at half-time and then turn off at full time. It's your choice if you want to watch the blather. The inane mid-match commentary usually annoys me - but today's commentators seemed to know a fair bit about Halifax having seen them play once or twice, although didn't seem to know much about Charlton, presumably ITV were using local, i.e. Yorkshire/Northern based commentators staff so perhaps that was why.

Andy Townsend is bloody good though.

I though the coverage was pretty good .

Nice to see Andy Townsend finally "come out" about his Charlton past.

Can't stand that Pal@rse mug Southgate though.

I was in a pub and didn't hear that Off_it.............what did he have to say?

I disliked the coverage. I hated how even when we went 4-0 up the commentators only talked about Halifax. When Jackson scored they focused more of how unlucky Halifax were to be two down rather than what a great strike it was, and when it ended they griped that it's 'not very romantic'. Barely a word about a professional job done by a team that's flying in the league. I get why they were doing it, an upset makes for better tv, but they didn't have to do it for the whole game. Charlton may as well not have been there the way they were talking

....Don Townsend maybe?

Yep

These ties are all about the minnow.

99.9% of people watching who have no affliation with Charlton wouldnt be interested in us one iota.

Teams like Halifax get the limelight once in a blue moon, why begrudge them it?

I thought the coverage was decent but hate all the adverts. 

They did describe the game accurately though. Against Brentford in the JPT they (Birtles mainly) never stopped lauding their play, but today I don't think they went over the top.

I think it is down to opinion and/or interpretation, that said, I'm the biggest critic of most TV these days, so maybe I'm not the right person to comment.

The television broadcaster showing any cup match with a "minnow" playing a high-flying league team is hoping for an upset, with David beating the Goliath - in this case Charlton.

We have not rolled over and been beaten, which is great for us but does not provide the "romance " of the FA Cup that the TV companies are looking for.

Onwards and upwards. We have been selfish by not giving the majority of the television viewers what they wanted!

Tough!!

Commentary isn't meant to be done on who gets the most coverage, it's meant to be a fair and accurate discription of the game, WHat was on today was neither IMO

Tend to agree. I understand the bias towards the underdogs, but this was typical of the way ITV always writes a story beforehand and then hammers you over the head with it.  I also think the constant talk about Halifax was disrespectful to us in a way that wouldn't have happened to Shithampton or Norwich.

Mountsfield Park...........my local park as a kid.

Charlton used to play there of course and Johhny Summers walked his whippet Kim in there almost every day during the late 50's early 60's.

Could have been worse GARY BIRTLES could have been co comm --he borders on F88king useless.....and is do anti south clubs......... cop a listen next time he doing a sky game.................laughable the shite he comes out with

Why didn't they show the streaker?!

sounded like they couldn't catch him either.

Mountsfield Park...........my local park as a kid.

Charlton used to play there of course and Johhny Summers walked his whippet Kim in there almost every day during the late 50's early 60's.

Hi, Yes, local to me too from about 63, although we usually went to Forster Park for a kick-around, as it was a bit nearer. Didn't know about Johnny Summers.  At the time I thought it was just a typical town park and CAFC must have played there when they first started and were (presumably) a park team.  But, according to Wiki, it had a  50,000 capacity stadium in it and, of course, we actually did play in blue and blue stripes (!) one year.

Hope others don't mind this being off-topic.