Friday Lunchtime, in our kitchen at work, Jessica Ennis in the 100m hurdles. 2 women walk in a couple of mins before race starts. Asks if Jess is in this race? I reply yes. They cheer her on, and it's "she's won gold,she's won gold" and proceeded to run out to tell the others on their desk.
The comparison to our footballers whenever someone does well an another sport. Zzzzzzz.
Chris Boardman commenting on the road race, when the little Spaniard fell off his bike send got back on straight away "there's no man with magic sponge in this sport", 10 minutes later, the little Spaniard has slowed right down and the team doctor is leaning out the team car with the old cotton wool, putting summin on a non existent injury on the riders elbow
The comparison to our footballers whenever someone does well an another sport. Zzzzzzz.
Yes, this. Or there's a big injury to a player (whatever the sport), the injured player gets up, and they come out with.... 'that would never happen in soccer', Have they never seen lower league football.....?
The comparison to our footballers whenever someone does well an another sport. Zzzzzzz.
Yes, this. Or there's a big injury to a player (whatever the sport), the injured player gets up, and they come out with.... 'that would never happen in soccer', Have they never seen lower league football.....?
No, and they have probably hardly ever seen any football match ever, anywhere, because they have a huge chip on their shoulder as a result of not being able to kick a ball straight at school, so ended up stuck in goal in playground 16 a side matches. This resentment smouldered until they discovered beach marbles, or extreme macramé and they now declare this "the best sport in the world" and anyone who likes football to be a deluded fool...
Ray Mears has just said, “There is never a dull moment in a Tern colony’. I think he is wrong though.
Programs from remote locations about Puffins, Terns and Gulls are exceedingly, mind numbingly, boring. They (all of them) sit around on rocks, then go for a bit of a fly or a swim, maybe do a bit of fishing and then return, probably to their baby and yes they always know their own baby despite there being about a million of them. And then ... they go and do the same thing again.
How many tedious hours of TV coverage has this received over the years? Its an absolute scandal.
At the risk of sounding like Big Rob, the BBC's coverage of the Olympics. Why do they keep changing bloody channels - is it just to punish anyone that dozes off waiting for their favourite event?
Here an idea pick a channel, either BBC2 or BBCFour, and make that a dedicated Olympic channel. Don't show anything else on that channel for a month but coverage of the most interesting live events and highlights. Make the other channel a dedicated non-Olympic channel; use it exclusively for non-Olympic programming. Use BBC1 for the flagship events only. Use the red-button service and iPlayer for minority events and those without a British interest. Absolutely simple and everyone would know where they stand.
And here's another idea - this one's an absolute belter. Try showing more of the events rather than interminable conversations between Claire Balding and Chris Hoy about who's engaged to whom and what it's like to be the spouse of an Olympic Athlete. Save money by flying these two and the other hangers-on back home. Film their conversations on Hoy's garden shed in Clackmannanshire and release it on iPlayer only for the three people that are actually interested in this drivel.
To be fair Neil, so do I. But I was watching tonight and there was racing going on in the background that we couldn't see whilst Balding was asking all sorts of inane questions of him that didn't shed any light on what was going on.
At the risk of sounding like Big Rob, the BBC's coverage of the Olympics. Why do they keep changing bloody channels - is it just to punish anyone that dozes off waiting for their favourite event?
Here an idea pick a channel, either BBC2 or BBCFour, and make that a dedicated Olympic channel. Don't show anything else on that channel for a month but coverage of the most interesting live events and highlights. Make the other channel a dedicated non-Olympic channel; use it exclusively for non-Olympic programming. Use BBC1 for the flagship events only. Use the red-button service and iPlayer for minority events and those without a British interest. Absolutely simple and everyone would know where they stand.
And here's another idea - this one's an absolute belter. Try showing more of the events rather than interminable conversations between Claire Balding and Chris Hoy about who's engaged to whom and what it's like to be the spouse of an Olympic Athlete. Save money by flying these two and the other hangers-on back home. Film their conversations on Hoy's garden shed in Clackmannanshire and release it on iPlayer only for the three people that are actually interested in this drivel.
Have you tried the ten or so dedicated channels the BBC have? On your tv planner, just below the other Sky ports channels.
Don't tell me you don't have Sky and only council telly.
Claire Balding is really annoying, there have been a few interviews with the athletes where she will interrupt them to ask a totally different question and the athlete sort of stands there like 'riiiight, ok'.
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Especially as the Madison was removed from the Cycling programme this time round because there wasnt enough room in the schedule for it!!
Why the hell not... Its not like the Veledrome is needed by the Tennis or the Syncronised Divers!!
Friday Lunchtime, in our kitchen at work, Jessica Ennis in the 100m hurdles. 2 women walk in a couple of mins before race starts. Asks if Jess is in this race? I reply yes. They cheer her on, and it's "she's won gold,she's won gold" and proceeded to run out to tell the others on their desk.
Yes, this. Or there's a big injury to a player (whatever the sport), the injured player gets up, and they come out with.... 'that would never happen in soccer', Have they never seen lower league football.....?
Programs from remote locations about Puffins, Terns and Gulls are exceedingly, mind numbingly, boring. They (all of them) sit around on rocks, then go for a bit of a fly or a swim, maybe do a bit of fishing and then return, probably to their baby and yes they always know their own baby despite there being about a million of them. And then ... they go and do the same thing again.
How many tedious hours of TV coverage has this received over the years? Its an absolute scandal.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wcqeM4KLqok
Specifically the double negative in "We're not going to get no sleep".
It bugs me.
Here an idea pick a channel, either BBC2 or BBCFour, and make that a dedicated Olympic channel. Don't show anything else on that channel for a month but coverage of the most interesting live events and highlights. Make the other channel a dedicated non-Olympic channel; use it exclusively for non-Olympic programming. Use BBC1 for the flagship events only. Use the red-button service and iPlayer for minority events and those without a British interest. Absolutely simple and everyone would know where they stand.
And here's another idea - this one's an absolute belter. Try showing more of the events rather than interminable conversations between Claire Balding and Chris Hoy about who's engaged to whom and what it's like to be the spouse of an Olympic Athlete. Save money by flying these two and the other hangers-on back home. Film their conversations on Hoy's garden shed in Clackmannanshire and release it on iPlayer only for the three people that are actually interested in this drivel.
From Some Might Say.......proper boils my piss that lyric.
On your tv planner, just below the other Sky ports channels.
Don't tell me you don't have Sky and only council telly.
Get her off the telly.