Sports Broadcasting

[HBB]

Yeah it’s handy to get MPs but I used to work there and all they do is walk directly across anyway. They could easily walk an extra 30 yards and in to the BBC or sky buildings. It’s sort of fine for the lesser news outlets but the semi-permanent set up at certain points in the year is just irritating as it allows the nutters to come out and shout. It’s already noisy enough with the dickheads who are shouting in to the abyss from the corner of parliament square.

Lol - that's democracy for you

 

[Morpeth]

Lol - that's democracy for you

True. I have no doubt it’ll be the same in the other direction too in a few years.

 

[Grenville 1898]

Those ones where they are stood outside in a storm to cover it whilst getting pelted by wind and rain get me every time. Like we can't see what it's like out the f***ing window or don't know what a storm is.

 

[Buckeye]

It's the banal stats that do my fruit. It started with xG but it's jumped the shark now. Every 5 mins there's some meaningless numbers popping up in a box to explain what you're whatching in a way you never cared about.

 

[gamble]

It might just be my age, but why is football on TV so mind numbingly tedious these days.

I've had Sky Sports News on this morning and it had two young annoying kids on talking about footy, then Carragher repeating himself again about Man City with his meaningless opinions.
None of it is news and it's a complete con. Even the live matches are mental. I don't think you need as much analysis so just show the bloody game. Breaking news is hours old; news alerts say that a press conference is coming up - do they think we're all just thick?
Now it's a load of twentysomethings wanking on about made up transfers.

MOTD can bugger of with the analysis too - just show more highlights and stop trying to educate me. It's not fun.

Maybe it is just me though as I've just deleted:

Facebook - which was all adverts
Instagram - just a bunch of showoffs
Tiktok - unbelivably shit

Bring back the good old days of football, and life (with slow internet)

Just watch the highlights on YouTube, the joy of the modern day is there are multiple different ways to watch the highlights now. If you want to stick to MOTD iPlayer it and fast forward the talking.

 

[Strummer]

Couldn't agree more, one staple of Sky News for years when I was was the reporter outside the ground - we'd have someone there from around 7am doing a live cross. It was part of the idea of showing we were "on the scene".... bloody useless.

Hopefully nobody ever tried to poke you in the ear with a dildo, then mate??

 

[Eddie Yates]

It's the banal stats that do my fruit. It started with xG but it's jumped the shark now. Every 5 mins there's some meaningless numbers popping up in a box to explain what you're whatching in a way you never cared about.

Like player X has more secondary assists while in transition during the second half than any other player of the same age & height this season

Load o bollocks

 

[Morpeth]

Obviously everything I've said earlier still stands, but I have to say, I really might get a Verisure alarm - that lovely blonde lady has finally convinced me.

 

[HBB]

Hopefully nobody ever tried to poke you in the ear with a dildo, then mate??

Lol no thank god I didn't do that much reporting on the road or in OBs I was more usually the producer running the bulletins and voicing packages but the biggest bun fight I ever got in to was with other journos when I was at Heathrow when Helmut Haller brought back the ball from the 1966 world cup final - he'd nicked it instead of letting it go to Sir Geoff of Hurst claiming that German tradition was for the first goal scorer in a game to get the ball. We were all awaiting his arrival through a special entrance that was about 10 foot wide and there were film crews and reporters from everywhere all trying to get the shot of him coming round the door with the ball in hand... it was a ridiculous crush and when he appeared it just went mental, I got cameras in the face, elbows in the ear and microphones in places they really shouldn't go...

 

[Morpeth]

Poor Dan Walker - he's had a bike accident and his face is so messed up he's ended up looking like Richard arnold...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627612737252515841

 

[Otis Redding]

RIP Dickie Davies.

Edit: just noticed that Rockabilly has already acknowledged this down the pub.