Originally Posted by The Lizard:
“EFL: Championship - Brentford v Norwich (Sky Sports 1):
Kelly Cates presenting from the Sky Sports Studio with David Prutton and Darren Eadie. Guy Havord reporting from Griffin Park.”
Poor old Darren Eadie, forever condemned to pundit only on matches involving Norwich and nobody else. Must be a bit of an odd position to be club-specific pundit, not quite good or famous enough to be allowed to pundit on matches not involving your former club.
Originally Posted by Jamesp84:
“Motson seems to commentate in a permanent state of bewilderment these days.”
Oh, I dunno, I quite enjoyed his commentary last night, he sounded like he was having great fun. Of course you'd hope last night's MOTD would also stop the "The Premier League is only allowed to be shown on BBC1" rubbish that often gets trotted out on this forum.
Originally Posted by BFGArmy:
“Wouldn't mind Kammy being kept on FNF - my issue there was that it was a bit of a waste having both Shreeves/Davison/Whelan and him there. Kamara would be more than capable of interviewing players/managers but having another reporter there basically meant his role was glorified jester.”
And we already have a contender for most embarrassing TV moment of 2017 on Goals on Sunday earlier, where Kamara seemed to forget he was on television and offered a somewhat off-colour remark on one of Bournemouth's goals, suggesting what some people might do if Arsenal had scored it. I remember Ian Wright using the same turn of phrase on the Beeb a decade or so ago and Lineker having to do an apology. No apology here, though. Wouldn't have been very convincing after they sniggered over it like schoolboys.
Originally Posted by Jonny_Bentley1:
“Surprised Ferdinand isn't on Liverpool-City, probably the first 'big-clash' he's missed in a good while for BT. I guess that's just because they want Gerrard to step in, but I'm surprised he's not there ahead of either Owen or Dunne.”
Well, of course two weeks ago Rio pulled out at the last minute from West Brom vs Man U and they had to get Hoddle down from the commentary box, so maybe he's still ill. It was New Year's Eve as well, not sure everyone's interested in working that day.
Originally Posted by bwfcol:
“Sky used to bring the English A Team for the derby then. Would be wrong to do it now, wouldn't be fair on Crocker.”
Reminds me of when the Beeb had SPL rights in 2002-04 (because the SPL decided not to sign a new contract with Sky to set up their own channel, which collapsed and so they went crawling back to Sky who told them to sod off), and the Old Firm games were live across the UK. For the first season - during the period they didn't have the Premier League of course - they had all the A team involved, including Gary and Alan Hansen, but by the end it got increasingly less prestigious and the last one was a total dead rubber so they just put the BBC Scotland coverage on the red button.
I also remember that in 2000 there was a very odd Old Firm match that was PPV on Sky and also live on BBC Scotland and Northern Ireland (and the Sky presenters had to say "That match is also live on BBC Scotland" when they plugged the PPV), and The Observer's Sport on TV column (which used to be a fascinating column, like Charles Sale only without any of the score settling) predicted it would be the last league match ever shown on free to air TV. Though of course, it wasn't, but it seemed likely at the time.
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