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  ls7

  10 months ago

  Good article Richard. I enjoy your other blog as well.
  
  I find that more and more the TV folk are 'announcers' and feel the need to be constantly saying something...anything. I've said it before and I'll say it again here, I much prefer a single 'commentator' who lets the match do most of the talking. The HBS feeds from Euro 2008 were excellent to watch IMHO.
  
  I would dispute a couple of points: "Dumb people who work in politics use talking points. Football journalists cover stories." There are mediocre people in every field...football reporting is not exempt from that.
  
  "I feel consoled we’ve lost five-one instead of five-nil. Yowza" Actually I think a lot of people, given the choice, would rather lose five-one instead of five-nil. At least by scoring a goal you can take something away from the match to build upon. Not scoring a goal can be quite demoralizing. There's no doubt that it means little to the outcome of the match but it can mean something to the team morale heading into the next match.
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  Fsquid

  10 months ago

  I could do without the whole "that magical night in Barcelona" crap that comes out any time Man United play.
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  RT

  10 months ago

  How about when a team goes up 1-0 at the 80 minute mark and the announcers declare the game over.
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  Richard Whittall

  10 months ago

  I actually think the best bit comes around the sixty-fifth minute when no one says anything at all for thirty seconds and you think maybe something's wrong with the sound. As bad as some English announcing gets, this would NEVER happen during an American telecast...
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  Jonathan

  10 months ago

  Pretty much anything ever uttered by Mark Lawrenson would also fit quite nicely into this article. 'Its a Greek tragedy' when England thrashed Greece just one example of how infuriatingly cheesy the man can be.
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  Mark

  10 months ago

  Those near misses when a ball hits the post or misses the post by a few inches. 'That should have gone in', or 'they should be one up now', 'they deserve to be level'. It doesn't matter whether it misses by an inch or a mile it is still a miss.
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