https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1k84zyml2noyet more Americanised nonsense. Bad enough that teams like palace have cheerleaders, megaphones and goal music.
They'll have picture in picture in-game adverts next.
Only upside will be the players hopefully using some colourful language and throwing their teammates and manager under the bus when they feel they shouldn't of been subbed.
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Personally I can't imagine substituted players saying anything of interest, unless they f bomb or slag off the manager.
I need guidance from a half baked extremely rich idiot
All you get is ultra-bland nothingness, soundbites and cliches.
I remember watching an old episode of The Big Match a few months ago and there was a post-match interview with Man Utd keeper Gary Bailey and he was talking, at great depth, through a howler or two he'd made when conceding from corners. Totally different from the PR-schooled players of today.
As for interviewing the subs, it is just going to turn into being about the personalities and not the sport soon. We already have American sports for that. Football is actually a good sport to watch. Can we just focus on doing that well please.
Sky love their on-screen graphics during coverage so it would be great to hear a subbed player talk about being "pulled off" and immediately see this on screen:
Interviewer 'why do you think you've been subbed?'
Player 'cos I'm shagging the managers wife'.
Should put an instant end to interviews like that.
"Hi, you've just been taken off because you're shit and losing 0-3 at home to Sheffield Wednesday.
How are you feeling right now?"
Skysports: erm, sorry to inform viewers at home but a substituted player has just thrown a presenters mic on the pitch and then told him to f*ck off.
We'll be adding more minutes stoppage time to retrieve the mic from the pitch.
Have they ever thought that less is more?
Too much prematch talk.
Too many commentators.
Too many half time pundits.
Too many instant replays while the game is going on.
Too many close ups of some celeb in the crowd or the manager writing his notes while the game is going on.