(Scene: Outside the
England Team hotel in Krakow)
BBC Reporter: I’m standing outside England’s hotel in
the centre of Krakow. The England team should be arriving soon.
……………………..blah , blah, blah, blah, blah.......... So the
team should be arriving soon, so back to you in the studio.
BBC Newsreader in the
studio: Thanks Tim. Hopefully they
should be arriving quite soon.
We all wait. We’ll just have be patient. Maybe if we return to Krakow in a few minutes we’ll be lucky
enough to see the coach sweep in through the gates.
This is the BBC News. This is what passes as ‘sports coverage’.
Next news item: Leo Ferdinand: Why has he been overlooked
for inclusion for the national team? What is the real reason Roy Hodgson
decided to leave him out? Extended analysis follows….
Why, I wonder, is so much of the sports reporting on TV based on gossip
and hearsay? Someone refuses to shake hands;
a player calls someone a bad name; the manager insults someone by not
informing them properly why they’ve been over-looked for the team. On and on it goes. Celebrity gossip: reported on national news
reports is bad enough but sports gossip is a killer!
I certainly don't grudge at all the proportionally extra TV coverage the England Team gets. They are, after all, Britain's only representative in Euro 2012. My issue is with the lack of substance in so much of new reporting.
