Good God don't let Murdoch anywhere near it. Don't let Murdoch anywhere near TV for that matter. He holds far too much influence in this country as it is. Personally I'd prefer to see the FLS to stay with the Beeb. The Red button on Sunday mornings works wonders.
Sadly, that's locking the door after the horse has bolted, what with SKY TV, but I appreciate the sentiment. And as for the aformentioned SKY or other commercial broadcasters, like ITV, getting hold of TFLS - do we really have such short memories..? I mean, really and seriously, does nobody remember what kind of a programme the TFLS was when ITV had it..? It was truly appalling. I used to record it on a Sunday morning and then play it back later. One Sunday I was skipping through the 90 minutes of programme to find the Saints match, when I decided to edit out all the adverts. The programme finished up at 50 minutes long and around 5 minutes of that was pundit chat. 40 minutes of adverts..! That meant 45 odd minutes for the Football League, and they squeezed in a main match of something like 10 minutes long. The Saints highlights were 20 odd seconds. Memories coming back now..? And people carp on about BBC's TFLS..!?! Be careful what you wish for, you may get it..!
Does that "late kick off" program still happen where they dig up some lower profile pundits and the odd player or manager and focus on the regional football league teams? I thought that was a really good concept. TFLS doesn't get much viewing because it's on stupidly late. I can imagine a lot of people watch the show on iplayer or watch the highlights of their team on BBC sport.
Completely agree. I am amazed so many people can still afford it, I refuse to have any Murdoch product in my house. I love the argument we need to make all these things more competitive and in the end we just end up with a private (instead of public) company dominating the market and upping the price... It makes me so angry, still just as well we are replacing civil servants with contractors and privatising hospitals nothing can go wrong there....
The Football League coverage on ITV was truly dreadful. They didn't even show all of the goals from L1 and L2. It flashed through so fast you literally couldn't keep up with it.
Sadly, Late Kick Off doesn't appear to be coming back. I've not seen anything to say it is not returning, but I've looked hard to see if it will. Anyway, we'll know by the first or second Monday in January, as that was when the first programme of either series was broadcast. The first series, with Jonathan Pearce fronting it, was a really good football/punditry show. Both Graeme Murty and Leroy Rosenior were just right, for the pace of the show, and the local nature of it too. In series two, the show got a little more confident, but was let down badly, IMO, by presenter James Richardson, who couldn't seem to take the condecending look off his face, or sound out of his voice. Other regions didn't suffer [you could watch any region, from anywhere else via the iPlayer] at all and there was a real sense of local bias, just like the local BBC Radio commentaries. Nice prog.
Give it a few years when the newspapers scandal has died down. Sky will buy BSkyB, then will up their stake in ITV. Buy a few more newspapers basically owning the 'Free press'. Tesco will have a tesco express on every street, under cutting every local business. There will also be a Tesco bank and a Tesco store just for clothes. All that will be left will be Sainsburys, Asda and Tescos.
Judging by your thumbs up you believe that to be a good scenario..? In that case I suppose I'd better bring forward my retirement arrangements to live in the South of France.
Nope not at all it was a more sarcastic thumbs up . Everyone needs competition or we are all screwed.
I blame the NMW for it all, Once someone knows how much your labour costs are, then they can set the price you work for, and it makes the Supermarket King, it also makes it easier for other Countrys to undercut us. So yes Supermarkets are Evil, so the Nation minimum wage is a powerful tool for them. Nothing to do with imported Labour as entioned on another thread
Makes me laugh. In Shirley, Southampton, there is a Tesco Express right in front of a Lidl Supermarket. Now before everyone jumps for the Lidl jokes, only the ignorant and uninformed would make them about the stores in Southampton [or in Europe, for that matter], because the quality and value from them so exceeds the Tesco Express stores that a better joke would be made about the idiots who pack the Tesco Express store and won't walk the extra 30 yards. The problem with the alternative jokes would be that only a few would get them. Such is the apathy of the British consumer.
Every time I drive to So'ton for a match I stop at Totton to use both Lidl's and the Poundstretcher next door. I frequent Tesco's more often but generally not for a big shop. Like many I shop around and sometimes am surprised by the feelings shown with preferring one shop above all others.
I'm either pissed or asleep by the time the TFLS starts. It is however a tough program to put together as you have 36 matches and 72 teams to cover and of course every fan wants their team to be featured and commented on in the same amount of depth as you get on Match of the Day and that's simply not possible. It does bug me though that the program is not shown earlier when there is no premier league games or if there is only a handful of premier league games on saturday due to europe. The BBC does a much better job than ITV ever did and the highlights on the website are very good. Personally the only way the TV show can be improved is to make it regionalised. That way we can get extended highlights (5 mins) for the regions matches and offer a little more time for interviews and analysis. Saints player is pretty good and that only piggy backs on the match day coverage already done by Solent so it would not cost that much extra if the BBC used the commentary and interviews already being conducted.
It would have been better if it was just the Championship and League One to start with. Mainly focusing on the big Championship games and going through the League One games very quickly unless there is a very important game.
