Why oh why can't we speak our minds using purposefully unoffensive wording, without others taking offence?
Why, after reading facts, such as credible gathered data, used for reference/promotion/buisness opportunities etc, be questioned by those who simply think that those people are disrespecting them...
Football Focus -
Me: I dislike the show now. My views are not racist or discriminative, My veiws are now thankfully echoed a bit, due to the following facts given to me by a black female proffesional UK News Correspondent.
The viewing figures can't have improved since Dan Walker left the show and Alex Scott took over, surely???
My good female friend helped me - She will be known on here as - LH (her family nic-name)
LH was born in the UK in 1970. she and her family moved to the UK in the late 1960's fleeing civil unrest in Bangladesh. I know her well because her older brother was part of our class of 87, studying Sports Psychology. She has studied Jounalism for many years. She is freelance Chief News Correspondent and Author, who now works all over the world. She and her family love the UK people with a passion. She (LH) is an advocate for UK white people. She despises those ethnic minorities who, in her words, wrap themselves in a 'Black Lives Matter'/'Discrimination' Banner for the purpose to be heard.
She has recently posted me some stats, which I found very interesting after I'd sent her my opinions on my own views of the demise of Football Focus since a woman has taken over the iconic Saturday, British build-up to a weekend of predominantly men's football.
Me: Football is played by men/womaen and children. Women's football I championed from the late 80' when I started coaching. Today women's football is thriving. Women's football now has it's own shows on mainstreem TV - Live matches are now frequent, and after MOTD there is the Woman's Football Show too.
And this makes me happy.
I wrote to LH, begging her not to take offence.... My questions and her response was very interesting indeed.
I wrote this -
Why are the BBC recieving hundreds of weekly complaints from both men and women, asking why women are taking over men's footblall programs?
Why is it that when a women's football program is dominated with women presenters and pundits, do they also have to have an equal female/male representation in the men's football programs?
OKAY -.......and her response was given from her own collated stats that prove me and thousands of others right -
LH replied and sent me this -
Alex Scott presents the BBC's Football Focus. Visionhaus/Getty Images
Two of the UK’s leading presenters have engaged in a public spat over the fading fortunes of one of the country’s most established sports shows.
The BBC’s Football Focus – a studio show inviting football pundits to analyse the day’s games following the final whistle on Saturday afternoons – has been running for 49 years, but was revealed this week to have lost more than a third of its viewing audience in the space of four years.
That dip coincided with the departure of presenter Dan Walker, who left the show in 2021 after 11 years as host, whereupon he was replaced by former women’s England team player Alex Scott.
He wrote on social media platform X on Saturday:
“It’s hard to see Football Focus struggling. I loved it growing up and it was an honour to present it and I still miss it. We poured everything into that show every week and worked hard to keep it relevant. I hope it stays part of the TV landscape.”
Scott responded to the message with a GIF, which said simply “Interesting.”
Walker replied: “I’m not saying you haven’t Alex. It’s a saturated market and it’s hard work every week. I hope you have a good show today.”
Scott subsequently added: “We have big interviews with Ange Postecoglou and Arsenal captain Martin Odegarard coming up on the ‘Award’ winning Football Focus tomorrow.
“Make that a headline.”
The Daily Mail reports that weekly average viewing figures for August fell from 849,000 in 2019 to just 564,000 in 2023.
While there is understood to be no immediate threat to the show’s existence, commentators have raised concern about the future of a show in a landscape where football fans can quickly catch up with all the results and analysis via a realm of platforms, club websites and other personalised viewing choices.
Comments
LH - Scott is a black woman, and an ex footballer. She has her fingers in so many pies because she is black, and because she is a lesbian. This is not a shock to my fellow workers. We all say the same thing - "Today, is the best time on earth for a black to live in the UK and to gain employment on TV" Scott also hits many more tick-boxes - She is black, she is a woman, and she is gay. Despisite the fact that she can't talk correctly, she is still headhunted to represent other blacks on TV. We are all aware now that eveything white,is complained about by those many campaigners groups and protesters, who are battering down the doors of power at the BBC and Parliament.
What's next after 60 years of Dr Who?
..........surely not a black gay man.
Ha ha ha ha FFS!........if this was written by a white News Correspondent ??
Why, after reading facts, such as credible gathered data, used for reference/promotion/buisness opportunities etc, be questioned by those who simply think that those people are disrespecting them...
Football Focus -
Me: I dislike the show now. My views are not racist or discriminative, My veiws are now thankfully echoed a bit, due to the following facts given to me by a black female proffesional UK News Correspondent.
The viewing figures can't have improved since Dan Walker left the show and Alex Scott took over, surely???
My good female friend helped me - She will be known on here as - LH (her family nic-name)
LH was born in the UK in 1970. she and her family moved to the UK in the late 1960's fleeing civil unrest in Bangladesh. I know her well because her older brother was part of our class of 87, studying Sports Psychology. She has studied Jounalism for many years. She is freelance Chief News Correspondent and Author, who now works all over the world. She and her family love the UK people with a passion. She (LH) is an advocate for UK white people. She despises those ethnic minorities who, in her words, wrap themselves in a 'Black Lives Matter'/'Discrimination' Banner for the purpose to be heard.
She has recently posted me some stats, which I found very interesting after I'd sent her my opinions on my own views of the demise of Football Focus since a woman has taken over the iconic Saturday, British build-up to a weekend of predominantly men's football.
Me: Football is played by men/womaen and children. Women's football I championed from the late 80' when I started coaching. Today women's football is thriving. Women's football now has it's own shows on mainstreem TV - Live matches are now frequent, and after MOTD there is the Woman's Football Show too.
And this makes me happy.
I wrote to LH, begging her not to take offence.... My questions and her response was very interesting indeed.
I wrote this -
Why are the BBC recieving hundreds of weekly complaints from both men and women, asking why women are taking over men's footblall programs?
Why is it that when a women's football program is dominated with women presenters and pundits, do they also have to have an equal female/male representation in the men's football programs?
OKAY -.......and her response was given from her own collated stats that prove me and thousands of others right -
LH replied and sent me this -
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Alex Scott presents the BBC's Football Focus. Visionhaus/Getty Images
Two of the UK’s leading presenters have engaged in a public spat over the fading fortunes of one of the country’s most established sports shows.
The BBC’s Football Focus – a studio show inviting football pundits to analyse the day’s games following the final whistle on Saturday afternoons – has been running for 49 years, but was revealed this week to have lost more than a third of its viewing audience in the space of four years.
That dip coincided with the departure of presenter Dan Walker, who left the show in 2021 after 11 years as host, whereupon he was replaced by former women’s England team player Alex Scott.
He wrote on social media platform X on Saturday:
“It’s hard to see Football Focus struggling. I loved it growing up and it was an honour to present it and I still miss it. We poured everything into that show every week and worked hard to keep it relevant. I hope it stays part of the TV landscape.”
Scott responded to the message with a GIF, which said simply “Interesting.”
Walker replied: “I’m not saying you haven’t Alex. It’s a saturated market and it’s hard work every week. I hope you have a good show today.”
Scott subsequently added: “We have big interviews with Ange Postecoglou and Arsenal captain Martin Odegarard coming up on the ‘Award’ winning Football Focus tomorrow.
“Make that a headline.”
The Daily Mail reports that weekly average viewing figures for August fell from 849,000 in 2019 to just 564,000 in 2023.
While there is understood to be no immediate threat to the show’s existence, commentators have raised concern about the future of a show in a landscape where football fans can quickly catch up with all the results and analysis via a realm of platforms, club websites and other personalised viewing choices.
Comments
- Pamela keenan on September 23, 2023 7:55 am
Desperately needs new presenter
- Anonymous on September 23, 2023 7:32 am
Clearly the correct move is to replace the host that saw your audience drop by a 3rd. Yet they will not because of politics. So the show will keep dwindling until it is unceremoniously cancelled.
- Des Blakeston on September 23, 2023 6:57 am
I can’t watch such a what has recently become a very boring program, perhaps a more experienced presenter, Claire Baldwin!, Ian Wright, I’m not impressed with Alex, she is a good pundit on the side of the pitch, Dan was head and shoulders above the current team.
- Barry Hayward on September 23, 2023 5:50 am
get Roy Keane Micha Richards and Gary Neville on the show it would then be worth watching.
LH - Scott is a black woman, and an ex footballer. She has her fingers in so many pies because she is black, and because she is a lesbian. This is not a shock to my fellow workers. We all say the same thing - "Today, is the best time on earth for a black to live in the UK and to gain employment on TV" Scott also hits many more tick-boxes - She is black, she is a woman, and she is gay. Despisite the fact that she can't talk correctly, she is still headhunted to represent other blacks on TV. We are all aware now that eveything white,is complained about by those many campaigners groups and protesters, who are battering down the doors of power at the BBC and Parliament.
What's next after 60 years of Dr Who?
..........surely not a black gay man.
Ha ha ha ha FFS!........if this was written by a white News Correspondent ??
