Football on BBC1 AGAIN..!!!!!!!!

jockettuk

mandi wrote:

Thank you, but
Thats fine if you like football,... many people dont,.......

isnt it freedom of choice .. i pay my fee like anyone else and if i dont like it i dont watch it, soaps dramas reality sports etc etc if we all liked the same things god it would be a boring world,

just think of this untill sky got the rights to show all the football it was shown more on the bbc than it is now, i dont like a lot of the sports they put on the tv so i turn over or turn off put the radio on your licence fee covers that as well just dont tune into any of the ones playing the football lol

jonesMUFCforever

Well I watched Clyds humiliate Celtic (Roy Keane - he was a great player once) and I'm not in England or Scotland.
Cracking performance by Clyde!!
This was on Sky which beats the pants off the Beeb and Itv for footie coverage.

mandi

trumpet wrote:

Jesus must like football the amount of miraculous recoveries there are, one minute the player is on the ground in agony the next they are leaping up and down in excitement at the thought of the penalty the ref has given them for their overacting.

:rotfl: :rotfl:
theyre a bunch of overpaid girls..............

ceebee_2

mandi wrote:

:mad:

I pay my licence fee to be entertained informed, and educated..NOT to watch 22 grown men kicking a silly little ball into the back of some stringy thing!!!!!... :mad: :mad:

Just thought that I would comment that the License Fee is simply another tax to put money into the Chancellor's coffers. It has little to do with financing the BBC, any more than the Road fund License has anything to do with road building.
To quote from the Television License paperwork, "You need a TV License to install or use any equipment to receive (any) television broadcast services

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trickytrolleys

The TV license pees me off no end! The Anti TV people asked watchdog to feature TVL and their tactics but they refused! Martin should look into it - it would save us all £100 odd a year!

IvanOpinion

Lets face it football was only invented to get the riff-raff off the streets on a Saturday afternoon so that the better classes could do their shopping in safety

Ivan

Xenomorhic

I HATE football
I HATE all soaps...

I watch a lot of DVDS!

Fifer

maybe some people think football is entertaining, it is the nations number one sport afterall

Last time I checked, angling was the most popular sport in the UK.

Although I don't watch it, I don't object to a reasonable amount of scheduled televised sport. Two things do hack me off though:

1. There are often occasions when sport of one variety or another is being shown on three, four and sometimes even all five terrestrial channels. That's unnecessary and unfair.

2. This may be a local issue to Scotland (I'm not sure) but BBC Scotland and STV regularly show live midweek games as a last minute change, so the schedules in the Radio Times, newspapers and sometimes even teletext don't reflect what is being shown. They are also guilty of treating the changed broadcast time of whatever was bumped as a state secret and, if the game goes into extra time, they still insist on showing the after-game analysis further delaying normal scheduling with no apology and little or no explanation.

Rant over for now ...

Catch_A_Fire

mandi wrote:

Why put football on the main channel, when it appeals to a minority of viewers!!!!

I would suggest that EVERY programme appeals to a minority of viewers.

mandi wrote:

Surely it would have been better to show the match on BBC 2.......... or better still BBC 3 or BBC 4!!!

Is BBC 1 bigger and better than 2, 3 or 4? Is it so important that the biggest, best, most popular programmes are on BBC1 and the less popular programmes on 2, 3 and 4 respectively? Or do you have a TV that you tune with a dial which is difficult to retune?

I pay my licence fee to be entertained informed, and educated

Football entertains some but not all people, soaps, reality shows, talent contests (whether you watch them or not) also entertain some people, they don't inform or educate!

I would guess that over any recent period the BBC have shown adverts for Fame Academy/Strictly Come Dancing/"Celebrity" cr*p each lasting in total longer than the live football shown in the same period! Likewise the bits between the Local and National news where the screen just shows "BREAKFAST" or similar or the long introductions to programmes simply telling you what the programme is!

Live football doesn't come close!

mr_fishbulb

What are you going to do in June/July when both BBC1 and ITV will be showing the world cup?