Football Focus to end after 52 years

Vienna_70 said:
I noticed it said that the BBC has to make difficult decisions about how to spend the licence payers' money, but I bet it will still find enough to fly Slimy Stone around the world to follow the rags' pre-season (or mid-season) tour.
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They need to fund Wayne's annual pay rise somehow!
 
Most of these football-based shows tend to be nothing more than a system to keep retired rags and dippers relevant.
We know by the time Slabhead plays his last rag game he'll have already gone through some form of media training for a career in front of the cameras. And within a couple of weeks there'll be a new football-themed show that looks back at the last seven days in football or something, featuring...yep, you guessed it.

You haven't been able to watch any kind of football show on TV for the last 20-30 years that hasn't had a representative from either the rags or the dippers on it, championing their former sides and pointedly ignoring all others. The topic of conversation has always been either 'Manschnit'd' or 'Liverpewl.' They'll sit in the studio and discuss what tactics either of the two clubs will employ in their next fixture. Then we'll have slo-mo replays of the talking points from their last games, then we'll get predictions for their next games, then the smarmy, oily **** fronting the program will say something like: "Join us after this short break and discover what happens when I curl the tip of my tongue firmly around Wayne Rooney's sphincter muscle, and tug on it till his fucking vile little piggy eyes water and his arsehole suddenly prolapses, sending a stream of molten fecal matter down the inside of his bloated, Henry the Eighth thighs, and he simultaneously ejaculates a single solitary drop of Shrek cum onto the bare floorboards of his own Senior Citizen's Bordello.
 
I remember it was (along with motd and saint & greavsie) essential viewing, due to the lack of football (live or highlights) available on tv in the 70’s & 80’s.
It started to wane when Sky and 24/7 football news appeared on the scene and made it far less essential viewing.
The PL long clips on (eg bbc) websites within a few hours of final whistle, will be the end of motd soon, but that at least gets Rooney off the screen.
 
hcblue95 said:
No more women!
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johnevans said:
More or less word for word what I was going to add to this thread, so thanks, saved me a job!

Yup, Sam Leitch's Saturday pontifications were a must for us then, starved of footy on the telly as we were. Even though he'd always start off (or so it seemed to us Northern plebs!) with news about Arsenal.. you could've had a Saturday fixture list featuring both the Manchester and Liverpool derbies but Old Sam would highlight his favoured team most weeks in, weeks out..!

Life was much simpler then. Eeeee, 'appy days..!
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I'm also owd enough to remember the 'Sam Leitch' days on the BBC. Sadly the DEI/Woke agenda has ruined most sports on the beeb these days, even Cricket!
 
What is remarkable is that the BBC never seem to learn and has the opinion that they always know best.
The demise of the programme was not helped by employing Alex Scott as its lead presenter.
So having helped kill off FF they now announce they have exciting projects for AS as well as using her in The World Cup. According to the BBC she is 'one of our finest presenters, is hugely popular across the men and women's game and is a big part of our present and future'.
 
Earlyriser said:
What is remarkable is that the BBC never seem to learn and has the opinion that they always know best.
The demise of the programme was not helped by employing Alex Scott as its lead presenter.
So having helped kill off FF they now announce they have exciting projects for AS as well as using her in The World Cup. According to the BBC she is 'one of our finest presenters, is hugely popular across the men and women's game and is a big part of our present and future'.
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She truly is terrible and seeing her and Dublin together talking their biased shite is a sneak preview of what he'll might look like
 
Earlyriser said:
What is remarkable is that the BBC never seem to learn and has the opinion that they always know best.
The demise of the programme was not helped by employing Alex Scott as its lead presenter.
So having helped kill off FF they now announce they have exciting projects for AS as well as using her in The World Cup. According to the BBC she is 'one of our finest presenters, is hugely popular across the men and women's game and is a big part of our present and future'.
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What annoys me most about the Beeb is that instead of sticking to its tried and trusted formula for programmes, it feels it has to copy others (usually Sky's) of the same type, and not just in football.

A Question Of Sport was a prime example.
 
Like most things on BBC it has been killed from within. Shit presenters talking about woke shite until the viewing figures dwindle so far they have to bin it, by which time nobody cares any more. Same with SPOTY. Same with MOTD and many other things.
 
Vienna_70 said:
What annoys me most about the Beeb is that instead of sticking to its tried and trusted formula for programmes, it feels it has to copy others (usually Sky's) of the same type, and not just in football.

A Question Of Sport was a prime example.
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They are believe if someone does well in one show it will translate into other areas. A recent example being Claudia Winkleman. They failed to recognise it was The Traitors format that made the programme not Claudia. So they give her a Chat Show and expect people to watch it because of her name. It bombs because she's a one trick pony.
For her read Vernon Kay and others
 
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