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52 years old … what do I do with Saturday Lunchtimes now?
Will probably be replaced by a Cooking show.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98kz9pe01po
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Haven’t watched it in years but I was glad to think it was still there.
Agreed. It’s part of the general enshitification of the world.
Used to be Football Preview with Sam Leitch (as part of Grandstand)
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c98kz9pe01po
At least we still have Saint and Greavsie on the other side! How are things going in Chilly Jockoland? etc
(That’s the first time I’ve ever written it down and it’s only NOW I notice that they drop the second “e” from Greaves for the show title)
It was getting tired so best to get rid.
Once again, the complete and utter crapness of modern top level football renders something much loved and traditional irrelevant and redundant. The endless options for kick off times in the stupid Premier League mean that any kind of Saturday magazine type show became pretty much undeliverable.
Not much chance of bringing back the whole morning’s viewing on FA Cup Final day then I guess. Used to love that…live action of the teams having breakfast, the morning walk around the team hotel, Cup Final Mastermind etc…I used to love the whole thing.
Cup final It’s a Knockout with Stuart Hall, happy days!
“ On the Ball” on the following day “How the cup was won (or drawn)”
The whole thing’s pretty tragic. We have Chelsea in all kind of problems apparently, who may yet win the F.A. Cup which, of course, will be ‘really important’ to them if they do. It means nothing.
It’s sad. I’ve never regretted walking away from it. The only football I watch on television is ‘The Big Match Revisited’ on ITV4.
The BBC have to find £500m in savings, and the competition for viewers is fierce. Makes sense to me, but I might be an outlier here given my recollection of football from my early days as a fan was just how little of it was on TV. It’s easy not to regret something you don’t watch. Like the absolute belter of the Champions League semis between Bayern and Real.
Yes and in the “glory days” of the 70s, half the time the games were played in about 6 inches of mud and with today’s rules there would be about 9 red cards a match.
I remember in one of the World Cups I read that the typical TV coverage team was 30 or 40 other than the Beeb who had over 200.
I’ve seen this come round before, and it will no doubt get a run again this year in the usual bottom feeding tabloids. During South African WC I read a rebuttal – I think in the FT but I don’t recall for sure – that the origins of the numbers were in the difference in total staffing which had become exaggerated and ignored the BBC multi platform presence – TV, radio, news vs ITV’s tv only.
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