The BBC, if the glaringly obvious candidate Mark Chapman doesn’t get the MOTD job. There really is no excuse here - he’s worked for the Beeb for 25 years, is a highly regarded presenter, and hosts MOTD2 with aplomb. Nobody, but nobody is interested in another BBC box ticking exercise here, where your personal pronouns and whether you holiday in Lesbos are the main criteria for getting the job.
Chapman is an excellent broadcaster, no doubt about it, but I'd like to see Colin Murray get the gig. Either way, I'd be happy. It won't happen, though - it'll be a woman.
At Glasgow Queen st Station everyone coming out holds the gate open for those going in so they don't get their 50p
Council Civil Enforcement Officers I intervened this week, after a couple of bullies tried to get an elderly lady at the bus stop to pay an on the spot £80 fine for dropping her shopping receipt. I actually went and picked it up for her. She politely explained to the Jobsworth that she lived in a housing association flat and couldn’t afford £80. I would have paid it for her if necessary, but after a lengthy debate which I instigated he “let her off this time”. Never pay these people if you do commit a very minor offence, they are on commission and have very few powers.
Evil bastards , I done the same down on the seafront - two jobsworths trying to fine a vulnerable lady who had let her dog off -the lead - they were actually in the wrong
A bit of advice from my mate on this sort of thing years ago. They cannot stop you walking so keep walking , you do not have to give them any details nor can they detain you. They have no powers whatsoever
This could be controversial, but here goes: I'd ban at least 80% of the women's football news on the BBC Football website. I just don't think your average fan cares about the women's game. I literally know one person who takes a mild interest in it. Sometimes I have to sift through it just to find something worth reading. As a father of girls, I feel bad feeling this way, but I have to be honest. (And no, my daughters have no interest in the women's game either.)
I’d push to 95% , I have no interest in it at all and don’t know anyone that does , unfortunately it’s all to do with box ticking
I personally have no interest but am mindful that Chelsea vs Man City women’s match at the weekend attracted attendance of 20,000 and they were disappointed with that. We’d bite hands off to have that attendance for a match against a non-Welsh side
@Ponders Revisited Great post. We have to be honest - there has been a huge attempt in recent years by the media and particularly the BBC to over-promote women’s football - one that simply is not justified based on the level of spectator interest, the level of commercial interest (which is not growing exponentially), or paying attendances. Take CAFC women as an example - despite vast sums of money having been sunk into their team & set up, they still play in front of meagre attendances. They won’t get bigger, the hype drumbeat has reached a crescendo for what most people can bear, and yet still they are not growing. There has been a cynical and fairly blatant attempt to foist women’s football on us - to literally force it down our throats. It’s not just the way they deliberately merge men’s & women’s stories on the BBC football website to give them equivalence, just listen to Five Live on a Sunday. You can be listening to say Brentford v Brighton and I guarantee it will be interrupted , without fail, by “and there’s been a goal at the BIG North London Derby” ….meaning a woman’s game. It is very irritating. Maybe it says something about the company I keep, but every football fan I know does not watch, follow or rate the women’s game. It’s a niche sport, mainly badly played, that has been rammed down our throats in these politically correct times we live in, where somehow now “everything is equal”.
Things That Should Be Banned - The BBC Licence fee It’s more than had its day. Let the BBC & its products compete in the open market for its customers, rather than compulsorily levying them every month, regardless of whether they use its products. It’s not good value when the likes of ****phile Huw Edwards are paid £500,000 a year of public money, whilst off sick. The only thing possibly worth keeping is BBC World Service, which has a lot of soft power beyond these shores. But the rest of it should be allowed to float on the market place, and let the market decide it’s worth.
