The Good Old BBC & MOTD

[Mase]

Here's an article that sums up my feelings on the matter:
http://www.sabotagetimes.com/football-s ... t-the-bbc/

Bet bit about that is:

‘Ho ho ho…Balotelli is a red card waiting to happen’ said Shearer. What, like Rooney did last week you tufty-haired c**t, letting his country down yet again?'

[Ted Hughes]

Bring back Jimmy Hill.

[Beefymcfc]

Just watched Goals on Sunday and it pisses all over MotD. At least they talk about the whole game rather than certain incidents and always give an unbiased opinion. BFS was on today and said a couple of our goals were amazing but when asked if we could win he seemed to get tongue-tied but the other guest (his name slips me) said we would be in with a real chance.

He also said that none of the players who started yesterday had played on International duty which makes you wonder how really good our squad is.

Makes me wonder how they get a job as a pundit !!

Thinking about it, very true.

[MR IMAINEROAD]

...If Rooney had scored with an impudent over-head kick to silence his critics there would have been creamy clumps of used Kleenex on the studio floor...

the language of Shakespeare....

[Beefymcfc]

I've just watched it again and there wasn't a single mention of our decent play or us being the top of the league; what's the score?

The problem with Hansen is that all's he can talk about when someone scores is the bad defending and gives no decent analysis with regard to the attacking play. With the amount of goals we've been scoring and the allocated time slot means that he cannot get anything in leaving him just to belittle our great start.

And did I say, he's a cunt.

[Bianchi on Ice]

...and for what he actually does he earns a ridiculous amount of money....no wonder he wasnt too pleased when this figure was published. Next year, when I move...I'm getting rid of my tv and will just have a pc...dont need a licence for that...only if you watch live transmission or record live transmissions. so, BBC...FU

[hyper]

And what of the post-match interview with Mancini ? Something was asked along the lines of "Did we see both the best and worst of Balotelli's game today?"

The worst??!?!?! He had a tiny bit of banter with away fans. If Shrek had done that they'd be picking it out and heralding him for his comedy prowess. The cunts. As someone else mentioned Goals on Sunday is so much better - just a shame I don't subscribe to Sky.

[shortagain]

He also said that none of the players who started yesterday had played on International duty which makes you wonder how really good our squad is.

Joe Hart, Yaya Toure, Vincent Kompany, Gareth Barry all played and many of the rest travelled and sat on the bench. Our squad is the best in the league

[lyonfish]

I've just watched it again and there wasn't a single mention of our decent play or us being the top of the league; what's the score?

The problem with Hansen is that all's he can talk about when someone scores is the bad defending and gives no decent analysis with regard to the attacking play. With the amount of goals we've been scoring and the allocated time slot means that he cannot get anything in leaving him just to belittle our great start.

And did I say, he's a cunt.

I've always thought this about hanson, noticed it with Bolton v Wigan game, yeah three defensive mistakes but he gave no credit to the bolton players for forcing those errors and capitalising on them.

[feedthegreek]

same on talksport 6 oclock monday morning, i was up for work switched on no mention of us winning 4-1
until after 6 30, wales were mentioned, the guy who died in the motor race,
all sundays matches were spoke about, nothing about city being top pisses you right off.
what can you expect with a bloke like irani hosting with brazil if scum beat us they will
never shut up about it, if we win itll be still early days yet.
its so annoying if it was spurs they would have had redknapp on at ten past six.
tossers the lot of them.

[london blue 2]

Soppy fuckers...

[Chinners]

Who gives a toss what presenters say or don't mention about us. When you look at the tables, thats all you need to know, smile to yourself and think 'Fucl em'

[brite blu sky]

Who gives a toss what presenters say or don't mention about us. When you look at the tables, thats all you need to know, smile to yourself and think 'Fucl em'

That's what I tended to think and still do to large extent... But then sometimes you also think about it and realise as a public broadcast service how they dont get even close to relaying the basic stories of the day. It isn't just a bias against City at the moment, they patronise all the other clubs than their chosen few and have done so for fuclin years and all paid for by the public at large.

Where is the public broadcasting agenda? These bunch of chumps are paid to dish out propaganda. If they want to do that they should be paid for by Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and the rags football clubs and not the rest of us.

[Beefymcfc]

Had a read of the Sun's Goal pull-out last night and on the back was a table showing the normal league details but with an extra bit added to show other elements of the game. The extra bits included things like Goals Scored by Headers, Goals Scored in the 1st 15 Minutes and the last one was Goals Scored by Englishmen. What a surprise it was that every column seemed to be focused on United's better stats that outweighed ours, somehow giving the Rag reader some defence with regard to strange stats that don't actually reflect the league positions. The 'Goals Scored by Englishmen' had to be the strangest thing of all and could only be there for the usual Rag Propaganda angle.

I know, not BBC or MotD but still one of the English institutions.

[london blue 2]

Had a read of the Sun's Goal pull-out last night and on the back was a table showing the normal league details but with an extra bit added to show other elements of the game. The extra bits included things like Goals Scored by Headers, Goals Scored in the 1st 15 Minutes and the last one was Goals Scored by Englishmen. What a surprise it was that every column seemed to be focused on United's better stats that outweighed ours, somehow giving the Rag reader some defence with regard to strange stats that don't actually reflect the league positions. The 'Goals Scored by Englishmen' had to be the strangest thing of all and could only be there for the usual Rag Propaganda angle.

I know, not BBC or MotD but still one of the English institutions.

If it had goals scored by Mexicans i'd be concerned

[Dameerto]

Is there a 'points conceded by camels' column?

[Patrick]

We win 4-1 against a team that was previously unbeaten, we go top of the league, we are currently on our best start to the season EVER and what do the 3 wise men of MOTD come up with?

'Balotelli will probably get himself sent off soon'

What a bunch of cunts!

It has always seemed churlish to write about the mind-blowing awfulness that is Match of The Day. After all, it is a football highlights package, and as long as it does that bit, then the rest isn’t really that important.

So what if the analysis is less cutting than Paul Merson’s views on the role of the libero in Greece’s successful Euro 2004 squad? The BBC have always responded to criticism of the show saying its purpose has never been to dissect tactically each game, but to provide to a largely post-pub audience who just want to see the goals. Somehow though, they have even managed to mess that up.

As a person who isn’t really interested in pre-match analysis, post-match analysis, or the views of any ex-footballer, the fuzz around the main action has never really bothered me, raising the odd chuckle and the shake of the head if I was really riled. But on Saturday night’s Match of The Day, the court jesters Alan Hansen and Shearer brought “analysis” to a new nadir.

Alan Hansen seems to have an “issue” with Manchester City at the moment (join the queue), probably caused by the usurping of his beloved Liverpool from the “Big Four”. After City had convincingly beaten Aston Villa at the weekend, there were numerous angles the crack team of analysts could have approached the game from when discussing with Gary Lineker the 4-1 score line. Bizarrely, Hansen decided not to focus on the goals, Balotelli’s great performance, Milners’ exquisite 4th goal (made in England), or even a look at how Adam Johnson fared or Toure performed further forward. No look at how Aston Villa’s front two did not help out the midfield by tackling, or how Villa’s defence was too close to the defence. Nope, that’s not important. Instead, he decided to completely fabricate a supposed falling out with Yaya Toure on the pitch, all overseen with a chuckling commentary.

First there was the heinous crime of ranting at a misplaced pass to Toure, a scene never before witnessed on a football pitch. Then there was the small “to-do” with the Aston Villa fans, before focussing on a pretend stamp on Balotelli by Toure, a look at Balotelli leaving stud marks on Shay Given’s chest, and a suggestion at the end that he only tracked back on hearing he had been made Man of the Match.

Hansen wouldn’t include Mario Balotelli in his side “when it comes to the crunch” while Alan Shearer “guarantees” the Italian will get sent off further down the line. Funny, but I bet Hansen would have Wayne Rooney in his starting eleven when that crunch came-a-calling, and we all know how trustworthy he is (but then he’s English too).

Clearly in the Alans’ “Betfair-couch” world of chumminess and golf-course jokes Balotelli is still something of a clown, a joke figure. But as the Guardian suggested today, perhaps it’s about time he was taken seriously. And perhaps it’s about time Messers Shearer, Hansen, Lawrenson et al did their jobs.

But as I said I can take some lax analysis or a complete lack of it – because that’s not the worst problem with the programme.

The main problem for me is that they aren’t even capable of showing proper highlights. This first began to dawn on me a couple of seasons ago. You tune in to see how your team did, to check if what you saw earlier in the day was how you thought it was, to re-live some fine goals and revisit the controversies. Now the goals are always there of course, as are the big chances, the big talking points such as red cards or missed penalties. But games aren’t just about that. They’re about the other missed chances and the finer points and incidents. Unfortunately, Match of The Day doesn’t seem too concerned about these. Fair enough, they have just a few hours to edit together an accurate portrayal of the match, but that’s their job. The number of times I have watched the highlights and then wondered whether I had imagined the missed header after 20 minutes, the last-gasp tackle when the game was delicately poised or the thigh-high tackle by the player who doesn’t-attract-a-lot-of-controversy-and-isn’t-that-sort-of-player-so-there’s-probably-no-need-to-show-it.

It is coming to something when I have to go to Manchester City’s highlights on their official website to watch Aston Villa’s chances. A goal-saving tackle by Micah Richards when it was 2-0. A blocked Emile Heskey header too springs to mind. If you were an Aston Villa fan who hadn’t followed the game, I reckon you’d want to know about these half-chances. MOTD editors would have you believe you didn’t leave your half during the last hour.

What’s more it seems to have become a habit to hold back some of the coverage for exclusive use in the analysis in the post-match discussion. This is wrong on more levels than a lingering fart in a lift. The highlights should show the major incidents of the match, in chronological order. End of.

And as for MOTD2, and Colin Murray, the less said the better.

For me, Match of the Day is an institution in the country’s sporting life, and it is that reason its inadequacies rankle so much. Any Premiership fan loves to watch their team’s highlights after a good performance, maybe even after a bad one. Is it too much to ask that the nation’s premier highlights programme could manage to show things of consequence during the match? And then look at the issues afterwards objectively, and with just the merest suggestion of some tactical knowledge? If the Match of the Day editors want “banter” then get three comedians on the couch. Otherwise, use ex-footballers who actually have something of interest to say, and editors who understand what incidents make a game what it is.

personally kk - i i think youre precis saved me 15 minutes

[branny]

Steve Claridge was at it on Final Score too. Saying that with all the money we've spent we should be doing what we are in the PL but we've not stepped up to the next level by doing it in the CL. So we've played the top of the table in Italy and drawn and Bayern who were on a run that eclipses ours and lost which may not have been the case had the ref had some balls. Not exactly out of our depth though and shouldn't we be judged after 6 games, not 2? Garth Crooks stuck up for us though saying that Real madrid and AC Milan spent close to a billion and it took them a while to win it.

[GhoulishZombie]

It funny how the BBC wank over man u and Rooney overhead kick but when we do it nothing special there then hey BBC when we win this campaign and the BBC starts wanking over us than I'll be annoyed