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parchpea wrote:Feel sorry for the lad like but if I have to hear about Muamba one more time I will kick the set in.

This public show of emotion gets on my tits and all way over the top like no to mention being absolute *****.

Most amusing was the amount of times ITV sent our their best wishes during yesterdays coverage. Even the fecking live draw
from Wembley they got another one in just incase we missed their previous 10 announcements on the suject, from every pundit,
every presenter, Bobby Gould, John Scales not to mention an update on his condition after every ad break of which there where
several like.

Get well soon lad (even Im doing it now!), but FFS will people just stop with all this ***** , rant over, and on thread, yes weve had feck all coverage 

The sky coverage is just cringey.
Its like one of those pi'ss takes of the news where every single angle is covered to get the most "in depth" information.
Its just been on that he has been speaking "...in both Fench and English"
What the fu'ck is this bo'llocks!?

Alex jarman who was stabbed to death in camden has not had a mention.makes me sick

If it aint on Sky then it hasn't happened.

I have to laugh at their round the clock coverage of Formula 1... a sport they previously had next to no interest in. Soon as they get the rights all of a sudden everyone is an F1 officiando.. on track reporters, in studio presenters, experts, and that scottish fella running around everywhere doing silly interviews (he was on a skateboard in Melbourne in one of his reports)

parchpea wrote:Feel sorry for the lad like but if I have to hear about Muamba one more time I will kick the set in.

This public show of emotion gets on my tits and all way over the top like no to mention being absolute *****.

Most amusing was the amount of times ITV sent our their best wishes during yesterdays coverage. Even the fecking live draw
from Wembley they got another one in just incase we missed their previous 10 announcements on the suject, from every pundit,
every presenter, Bobby Gould, John Scales not to mention an update on his condition after every ad break of which there where
several like.

Get well soon lad (even Im doing it now!), but FFS will people just stop with all this ***** , rant over, and on thread, yes weve had feck all coverage 

Its the phonies that get to you isn't it? Suddenly every player, every pundit, everyone knows this lad, and apparently he is gods gift to the world. Everybody knows him and for such a tragedy to happen to him is totally unjust. Which it is, but I agree, its the fact that suddenly everybody knows the lad and each and every pundit are trying to make themself look good by making out they know him personally and hope he gets better.

Its pathetic. And in a way its sick. The amount of pundits trying to gain recognition through another mans misery is the lowest of the low. And the ITV pundits especially are guilty of this.

Kharhaz wrote:

parchpea wrote:Feel sorry for the lad like but if I have to hear about Muamba one more time I will kick the set in.

This public show of emotion gets on my tits and all way over the top like no to mention being absolute *****.

Most amusing was the amount of times ITV sent our their best wishes during yesterdays coverage. Even the fecking live draw
from Wembley they got another one in just incase we missed their previous 10 announcements on the suject, from every pundit,
every presenter, Bobby Gould, John Scales not to mention an update on his condition after every ad break of which there where
several like.

Get well soon lad (even Im doing it now!), but FFS will people just stop with all this ***** , rant over, and on thread, yes weve had feck all coverage 

Its the phonies that get to you isn't it? Suddenly every player, every pundit, everyone knows this lad, and apparently he is gods gift to the world. Everybody knows him and for such a tragedy to happen to him is totally unjust. Which it is, but I agree, its the fact that suddenly everybody knows the lad and each and every pundit are trying to make themself look good by making out they know him personally and hope he gets better.

Its pathetic. And in a way its sick. The amount of pundits trying to gain recognition through another mans misery is the lowest of the low. And the ITV pundits especially are guilty of this.

To be honest I think a lot of what's being said is more an obligation than heart-felt sorrow.  But at the same time, when I look at how I reacted, and when you look at how you reacted (I'm assuming), I literally felt sick watching it unfold.  I felt so bad for him, and I don't really care that I've never really followed Bolton much, or Muamba, but I genuinely hoped he would be okay.  Obviously not everybody is the same, but human nature really makes you feel for him, and hope he's okay.  The pundits may have had to say these nice things as an obligation towards their employers, but I'm sure most of them, if not all of them, meant 100% what they said.

I have no problem with anyone expressing the wish for the lad to get better, its the phony "he is a good lad, he is a professional, he is a saint, generally the he is my best mate" kind of reasoning I have trouble with. Wish the lad well by all means, but cut the "I know him best" tripe because the people who know him best are his family, and they are too busy being at his bedside caring for the guy.

Thommo's perm wrote:So sky sports news literally means the news of the sport that is on sky?

sounds about right

SSN has beena  joke for years now. there isn't enough sports news for 24hours coverage so of course they will sensationalize things and they are just a rag in tv form

supersub wrote:

Thommo's perm wrote:So sky sports news literally means the news of the sport that is on sky?

sounds about right

No, that is exactly right. Very much like the Fox News Network.

Agenda based reporting.

However, this is not new, this has always been the case, but now with one corporation owning a large portion of the influential global media, it's definitely more pronounced. In my opinion this is why you should support your state or government funded media, such as the BBC, despite putting up with political based agenda's.

I'm sick to death of commentary on ALL UK sports channels when Liverpool plays. Martin Tyler is about the only useful commentator left in the land IMHO.
The game against Stoke was 90 minutes of listening to Scales and Co. hoping for Stoke to cause an upset. We get it, the FA Cup is a giant-killer competition but give credit where it's due!

The London TV media in general are a bunch of navel-gazing gits who can't see past a London Club or both sides of Manchester. When it will it ever end?

There are three great commentators

Alan Green - BBC Five Live
Martin Tyler - Sky
Clive Tyldsley - ITV

Quite a few great games with these three... Tyler in the Collymore 4-3, Tyldsley in Istanbul.

John Motson was dreadful. Awful voice, scripted, nerdy type. Constantly makes errors, and came up with cringeworthy nonsense.. "the sausages will be sizzling back home I should think"... i wanted England to lose almost because of him.

Both Tyler and Tyldsley are f*cking ***** and blatantly biased towards the Mancs. Jonathan Pierce is decent , Alan Green is ok but overall most commentators are truely awful.

John Champion is OK, the commentator from PES .

Clive Tyldsley - ITV ?

I don't think I've ever heard a Reds fan profess to a fondness for this twat .

D___C wrote:There are three great commentators

Alan Green - BBC Five Live
Martin Tyler - Sky
Clive Tyldsley - ITV

Quite a few great games with these three... Tyler in the Collymore 4-3, Tyldsley in Istanbul.

John Motson was dreadful. Awful voice, scripted, nerdy type. Constantly makes errors, and came up with cringeworthy nonsense.. "the sausages will be sizzling back home I should think"... i wanted England to lose almost because of him.

clive `that night in barcelona` tyldsley is a united fan, he`s from the greater manchester area and grew up watching them, martin `yes, yes, yes for manchester united` tyler isnt a manc but he may as well be.
motson is a bit of a wet blanket but he`s also a legend of broadcasting, commentating on games only started in the mid 60`s and motson started on the telly in the early 70`s, the likes of motson and jimmy hill may not be everyones cup of tea but they are pioneers of broadcasting. things what we take for granted these days like having players and managers as studio guests, slow motion replays, co-commentators, goal of the month and goal of the season competitions, interviewing players and managers after the game, putting team line ups on the screen before the game etc were all thought up and pioneered by the likes of hill in the mid to late 60`s and early 70`s.
people like motson, barry davies, david coleman, brian moore etc are legends, classic lines rolled off their tongues, modern commentators are manufactured just like the `classic lines` that they obviously thought up the night before.

edit - this was nearly half a century ago but they talk more sense and are more entertaining than the automatons you get on the telly these days...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=lTGWnDLNiRw&NR=1 - man city coach malcom allison telling spurs and england star alan mullery that he wasnt that good a player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOEDiBNPu00&feature=endscreen&NR=1 - allison again discussing george best breaking pardoe`s leg

note jimmy hill in both clips, he was the fella that brought interviews and analysis into footy coverage