I have just got back from a few days in France and I must say the football that I saw late at night on their Canal TV channel illustrates to the BBC how it should be done. Just loads of action and no big headed explayers with overblown egos talking out of their arses. The BBC could save a fortune and cut the cost of my licence fee if they sacked Hansen et el from MoTD and that stupid woman and Claridge from the FLS. None of them have ever said a thing worth listening to. All they need is some link person to say "and the next match is..." and then go straight to it. The viewers' experience would be all the better for it. Forget the manager interviews. What manager ever said anything truly enlightening or informative in an interview. All they ever do is moan about the ref or over praise their team if they win. I could write most of what will be said by the managers for this weekend giving the version if they win and the version if they lose. With football it is the action on the pitch that matters. That is what we pay to see. Would you hang about after a match just to listen to a couple of old long forgotten footballers talk a load of bollocks and then hear a load of crap from the managers. No. You would be out of the stadium and on your way home. So why do we have to put up with it on the idiot box?
On the whole, I agree with you. Football has become too opinionated by people who would be no loss at all if they disappeared from our screens. And yes, I include Matty, in that. But the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, so there would have to be a slow withdraw, rather than an instant change from punditry to zero punditry. Brian Clough was interviewed by John Motson about this, and took Motson to task over it. As usual, he was right as well. I make no apologies for linking this yet again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAZsoF-ghw
Im glad its on first - glad its not on at the end for those saints fans who get up and leave a match 10 minutes from time. Those who cant sit through a full 90mins of football at the ground probably cant sit through 60mins of tv. will sit through the bristol city and coventry action then get up, turn off the tv and leave the room just incase there is congestion on the stairs.
Effing brilliant. "Shut up and show more football." Now there is a very simple and easily understood message for the BBC. What on earth would Cloughie make of the fiasco that is football today? I bet he is turning is his grave.
