our newspapers are dying on their feet and our sports broadcast channels (Radio and TV) are seeing big audience declines...
I hope that this is the case. I am sick to death of the media in this country: the biased reporting, the kowtowing to all things rags and dippers, and the thinly-disguised contempt they have for us.
I binned Sky 20/30 years ago, and BT about 5 years ago. I never buy a newspaper -especially a bastard tabloid- and I make a point of recording MotD or any televised game so that I can FF through the moronic soundbites from the likes of Danny Mills and others of that ilk.
MotD has fast become a parody of itself: almost like a 'Fast Show' sketch. It's about as bland and insipid as anything and everything that Philip Schofield has ever hosted, and Gary Lineker's phoney bonhomie, his feeble attempts at wit, and his totally insincere affability wear thin after a few minutes. As does the monotone droning of Alan Shearer.
The female commentators voices (and Jonathan Pierce's, to be fair) are bloody awful: shrill and eardrum-burstingly high-pitched, sounding like fucking Minnie Ripperton after she'd overdosed on helium inhalation.
MotD is tired and formulaic, it's an irrelevance that the BBC are too frightened to dispense with because of its long history and proud tradition of Saturday night football viewing.
But this is not the 60's anymore, we've moved on a bit since grainy, black and white images of Ena Sharples were first broadcast onto our TV screens.
I truly believe that if they got rid of Lineker and his 'pundit' pals and just showed the game (with an occasional subtitle, perhaps) and allowed us, the viewer, to form our own opinions they'd double the viewing figures almost overnight.
It's like the BBC itself: aged and decrepit, like the crusty, puss-filled labia majora of a haggard, toothless octogenarian - it's had its day.
