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Bahhhhhhhhh bleat bahhhh
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of April Leave a comment on this post
Oh the Sky Sports chaps are loving this, absolutely loving it. Hampshire have just beaten Ireland, and they can’t stop inferring that they’re all going to get pissed on Guinness. I don’t doubt they will, but SHUT UP about it.
After [whoever] got the Man-of-the-Match award, they said “Ooh, err, I don’t think there will be many clear heads tomorrow morning; Champagne and Guinness. Not the best mixture.” Well fuck me dead. Aren’t you insightful. No, it’s not a good mixture, and nor is the current crop of Sky Sports presenters.
I have no problem with any of them as people. They’re all thoroughly decent and were/are fine cricketers. I just wish they wouldn’t state the bleeding obvious - something I felt Channel 4 got spot on. They had a duty to provide a balance between teaching the game to newcomers (roadshows) and not patronising the longterm fans (us). Sky are all about glitz, glamour and shoving the blatant down our throats. It’s especially hard so early in the season, because it makes me want to eat my feet and stick a pen up my nose, ala Blackadder on the right.
Channel 4 got it so right. It’s now all so wrong, not to mention a total injustice that a large slice of the population will simply not see any cricket on TV for the next few years.
Tags: blackadder, channel-4, hampshire, ian-ward, ireland, sky, tv |
9 Responses to “Bahhhhhhhhh bleat bahhhh”
April 23rd, 2006 at 5.34 pm
April 23rd, 2006 at 5.35 pm
And by the way, Guiness is rubbish. If I was in Ireland, I’d be drinking Harps.
April 23rd, 2006 at 5.37 pm
And, third thing, beating Ireland is NOT an excuse to get pissed.
April 23rd, 2006 at 5.49 pm
Quite so. What’s Guiness though? 
April 23rd, 2006 at 10.20 pm
I agree with the commens on the Sky team. Lloyd and Atherton are far too chummy. It gets right up my nose to be honest.
Ireland? Ah, lets talk about drinking Guinness. HILARIOUS. I’ve never heard that before.
April 26th, 2006 at 5.07 am
You would have to concede that Atherton owes the English sporting public some entertainment.
I didn’t mind him during the Ashes series although i found his television personsa somewhat at odds with the ‘down at heel’ who used to captain England.
Lloyd on the other hand is pure sit-com, he could make bare knuckle boxing seem banal.
I’m not sure though that i have heard any better coming out of the U.K, English cricket may have awakened from a long slumber, but we may have to wait a little longer for the media to come round!
April 27th, 2006 at 9.18 am
i too am in complete agreement with the stated topic. channel 4’s coverage is/was so insightful and analytical, it was brilliant.
the question i have asked myself for years is when is bob willis going to die. he is the most tedious, boring tw@t i have ever had to listen to. please can sky sack him off before the summer gets started and emply someone interesting liek simon hughes or mark nicolas. if not, at least replace his droaning persona with someone a little more exciting like a wooden fence post.
May 4th, 2006 at 3.56 pm
Couldn’t agree more. Sky coverage and commentary is woeful. The fact that I have to continue with my Sky contribution to watch cricket is an outrage.
I cannot believe what a bunch of money-grabbing short-sighted a***holes the ECB are.
May 4th, 2006 at 3.57 pm
Forgot to mention Bob Willis is the worst of them.
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