End of footy on the BBC?

[Epic Swindle]

The BBC will axe the popular Football League Show at the end of the season, fuelling fans' speculation that Match of the Day could follow.

 

The news comes after supporters complained when the Show was not shown on Boxing Day.

 

An insider said: “This will be the last season the BBC broadcasts the Football League Show.

 

“It is coming to the end of a three year contract and it will not be renewed.”

 

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/BBC-set-to-axe-the-Football-League-Show-article846904.html

 

They could save a bit of money by getting rid of Hansen, et all. Wonder how much they're paying that lot to talk s****.

 

 

 

 

 

[Cheesecake]

The BBC will axe the popular Football League Show at the end of the season, fuelling fans' speculation that Match of the Day could follow.

 

The news comes after supporters complained when the Show was not shown on Boxing Day.

 

An insider said: “This will be the last season the BBC broadcasts the Football League Show.

 

“It is coming to the end of a three year contract and it will not be renewed.”

 

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/BBC-set-to-axe-the-Football-League-Show-article846904.html

 

They could save a bit of money by getting rid of Hansen, et all. Wonder how much they're paying that lot to talk s****.

 

can say I've never once watched it despite seeing it advertised during MOTD on a weekly basis.

[Maldini]

Their coverage of football is pathetic these days.

[floyd]

Won't miss 20 minutes of Mancs, 8 minutes of verbally saying how they are like Brazil 1970, 10 minutes of, look how good a team is in their community with the ex National Front member Kevin unfunny cvnt Day, and 3 minutes of Liverpool at the end.

[Ombudsam]

getting rid of coverage below the #prem won't lead to them scrapping MOTD. It's too popular and now they'll have more money for it.

[Nathan Explosion]

Bring back "The Premiership" on ITV

[Bigal]

Bring back "The Premiership" on ITV

 

The Townsend Tactics Truck!!!

[Gambit]

They can't afford to keep the Football League show but they can afford to pay millionaires like Lineker, Hansen, Shearer etc. to give us their boring views on the games? Nice use of our license fee. How about MOTD get rid off the pundits and the 'analysis' and just give us extended highlights? That's what I want to see, football action not Hansen and co blabbering on and on.

[cymrococh]

They can't afford to keep the Football League show but they can afford to pay millionaires like Lineker, Hansen, Shearer etc. to give us their boring views on the games? Nice use of our license fee. How about MOTD get rid off the pundits and the 'analysis' and just give us extended highlights? That's what I want to see, football action not Hansen and co blabbering on and on.

I'd love to see some proper analysis from the BBC but it's never going to happen with this current group of presenters. The idea that they should ramp up the BANTA while dumbing down the actual commentary and analysis drives me to despair.

 

The best analysis on tv is generally from Gary f*cking Neville on Sky, that's where the standard of analysis is.

 

This goes for BBC sport as a whole, but can you please stop referring to the 'experts'/players by their 'hilarious' nicknames? How are we supposed to know who you are referring to? I don't want to be your mate, I want to be given expert insight into what you're talking about you vacuous bantac*nts.

Edited December 30, 2011 by that pic

[Epic Swindle]

Sky's analysis is poo but their coverage is top notch. They show extended highlights over and over compared to the BBC's 5 minutes footie and 20 minutes babble.

[Cunny]

Hansen paid £40k a programme to phone in his analysis

[Epic Swindle]

They should just copy Sky and have the interactive choice and optional analysis from some ex journeyman. You know, given we're paying for it like.

[crisps]

Agree, I do like The Football First on SKY although it is stupid its only on late Saturday night when half of the target market are probably out, I'm sure SKY could work out a way of being able to show highlights via interactive all week.

 

MOTD is just crap, I normally just watch MOTD2 on Sunday night or record it if busy then skip the talking s****.

[Stevie H]

Hansen paid £40k a programme to phone in his analysis

about half what lineker's on i think. sad.

[heighway]

It is soooo infuriating the rubbish level of 'punditry'. It's like the programme producers don't actually know or care anything about football and just blithely hire football celebs rather than folk who might actually have something insightful to say about the game. You wouldn't see the same thing happening on TV coverage of politics or arts or lifestyle programmes, or certainly not to the same extent. Jaysus the amount of ex-pros who get paid a huge wedge for waffling total b****x is gobsmacking (he said wishing he was an ex-pro on such easy money)

[Tommy Cockles]

Put it all over to live text, that's the future.

 

I want to know what Gary from Enfield thinks.

[Rimbeux]

It is soooo infuriating the rubbish level of 'punditry'. It's like the programme producers don't actually know or care anything about football and just blithely hire football celebs rather than folk who might actually have something insightful to say about the game. You wouldn't see the same thing happening on TV coverage of politics or arts or lifestyle programmes, or certainly not to the same extent. Jaysus the amount of ex-pros who get paid a huge wedge for waffling total b****x is gobsmacking (he said wishing he was an ex-pro on such easy money)

 

I'm convinced the mantra is keep it simple, I've heard one or two on the radio slip into actual detail and apologising for getting technical, Neville is praised for going into actual detail. There's either a conspiracy to keep it in the magic circle, a belief by the producers/directors that man on the street wont get detail and doesn't want detail, ex-pros forgetting most of what they were told or never getting it in the first place, or some combination of all.

[muleskinner]

Hansen paid £40k a programme to phone in his analysis

 

really? that is great work by his agent. He toughs it out in Barbados doing a soccer school at a hotel in the close season too.