Agree entirely, Mike. I am a supporter of the BBC in general (especially Radio4 and the World Service) but like others who've posted here, I find the coverage of sport, particularly football and even more particularly City, to be tedious and partial these days.. far too chummy and 'all mates together, eh Wrighty?' for me, while some of the so-called news reporting about sport is vacuous to say the least.
Most of the time I ignore its football output, just tuning in MOTD/2 to watch us. I get what I need to know about City from Bluemoon or the City website or by picking up on the likes of Martin Samuel via the filter of fellow Blues pointing out useful articles on here.
My rant this afternoon was in response to the few minutes at the fag-end of SPOTY last night that I sadly witnessed. I was glad that Lewis Hamilton won the individual award, if only to prevent myself going apoplectic had it been that plodder from The Anfield Road Brick Throwers' midfield getting it.. it was bad enough seeing him and the amazingly dentate Klopp appear to pick up the team award, which set me off no end comparing the Scouse love-in last night to how our Centurions were treated..
As others have pointed out, it's not just been us who had the raw end of it all down the years, it's other teams too, Forest being but one as I mentioned. And of course, we've had all the other rubbish thrown at us (FFP etc) for ages now, often orchestrated by the likes of Roan at the BBC sports desk. As our broadcaster of record, I'd expect more and better from the BBC's sports output as far as we're concerned, especially after the CAS judgement. But they and the rest of the sports media f*ckwits continue to set the mood music about City as with last night's dreadful SPOTY. To see that unfold barely 12 months after we'd had the Centurions and the Treble Winners snubbed in consecutive years just made me want to rip a tissue..! Anyway, Matron's been round with the trolley, so I'm much better now..c
