Norman Bell
Just doesn't shut up
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I have just found out that another tradition is in the bin, the reading of the classified football results on Radio 5 at the start of sports report. Apparently since the BBC now have commentary on the 5.30 Premier League game there is not enough time according to them to fit them in. This is because we all need to have an EPL match report on the few games that are actually played at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. The fact is, it is so the BBC can tug their forelock to Pep, Jurgen, whoever is in charge at Manure this week, Captain Scarlett at Arsenal or other big six managers, while not forgetting Frank Lampard.
Now I get that younger people will be saying " Move on Abe Simpson " but that generation are not likely to be listening to sports report as they are reading information on their i-phone they will not be as angry as those of us of a certain vintage are. Getting back to the car for 5 pm to hear Sports Report and James Alexander Gordon reading out the results was part of the match day ritual.
This decision is the second kick in the gonads the BBC has dealt to fans of non Premier clubs this summer. Apparently they were offered the chance to show the football league highlights at a " Mate's Rates " price of just over £500,000 yet said no it was too high and then they proceeded to outbid the commercial networks to cover the Champions League at a fee far in excess of the money they could have had the football league package for.
If the BBC are short of time to fit the English, Scottish and Conference League results in I have a suggestion, read out the football results then any interviews that cannot be heard before 5.30 can be aired at the end of that match, as for me they can get rid of that outdated offering 6-0-6 where ' Tony from Croydon who is a life long Manure who has actually only ever been to Superstore at Old Trafford is questioning the team selection ! ' I would think more people would prefer the football results to Robbie Savage's inane blethering.
So the reading of the football results on Sports Report passes into history and joins the Express and Star and Argus " Pinks ", Shoot ! magazine with it's league ladder, Subbuteo and Striker, The Big Match or Star Soccer, Saint and Greavsie, Bob Wilson's Football Focus, FA Cup Final day with all that entailed, including a 3pm kick off and the yearly England v Scotland game. Programs have already gone for some teams as well.
I imagine if that fine footballing man Mr Alf Garnett was alive today he would light up his pipe and vent one of his catchphrases upon hearing the scrapping of the results service " Bloody BBC ! "
Now I get that younger people will be saying " Move on Abe Simpson " but that generation are not likely to be listening to sports report as they are reading information on their i-phone they will not be as angry as those of us of a certain vintage are. Getting back to the car for 5 pm to hear Sports Report and James Alexander Gordon reading out the results was part of the match day ritual.
This decision is the second kick in the gonads the BBC has dealt to fans of non Premier clubs this summer. Apparently they were offered the chance to show the football league highlights at a " Mate's Rates " price of just over £500,000 yet said no it was too high and then they proceeded to outbid the commercial networks to cover the Champions League at a fee far in excess of the money they could have had the football league package for.
If the BBC are short of time to fit the English, Scottish and Conference League results in I have a suggestion, read out the football results then any interviews that cannot be heard before 5.30 can be aired at the end of that match, as for me they can get rid of that outdated offering 6-0-6 where ' Tony from Croydon who is a life long Manure who has actually only ever been to Superstore at Old Trafford is questioning the team selection ! ' I would think more people would prefer the football results to Robbie Savage's inane blethering.
So the reading of the football results on Sports Report passes into history and joins the Express and Star and Argus " Pinks ", Shoot ! magazine with it's league ladder, Subbuteo and Striker, The Big Match or Star Soccer, Saint and Greavsie, Bob Wilson's Football Focus, FA Cup Final day with all that entailed, including a 3pm kick off and the yearly England v Scotland game. Programs have already gone for some teams as well.
I imagine if that fine footballing man Mr Alf Garnett was alive today he would light up his pipe and vent one of his catchphrases upon hearing the scrapping of the results service " Bloody BBC ! "