…or WASKAF as all the kids are doubtless already calling it.
I’ve been moaning for years. Privately sniping, shouting back at the television in futility, sending snarky texts to friends. I imagine you have been doing much the same? More television time is dedicated to football then ever, yet the paucity and poverty of ambition in such reporting is at an all-time low. But like my homeboy Howard Beale, I’m mad as hell and not going to take this any more. The tipping point was Mr Shearer recently pointing out that opportunistic striker Jermain Defoe- as a striker- was “useful in the box”. In and around the box. Yes, the box. You know, 18 yards? Where he takes opportunities. Like strikers usually do.
It is debatable whether Shearer is the worst, but he does have a particular brand of stating the obvious which makes his pronouncements worth transcribing in black and white. Over the season I will open it out to guest posts on other broadcasting luminaries.
Unfortunately, I have decided to begin this blog in an international week where the BBC is unlikely to even have highlights. So short of waking up Wor Alan in the middle of the night to pick his brains, I will just wait until the next Match of the Day. or MOTD, as no-one calls it.
1 Comment
May 12, 2009 at 10:51 am
May God have mercy on your soul if my girlfriend finds this post,
she worships at the temple of Shearer.
If she does, please argue excessively with her,
she gets all worked up over this sort of thing
and it’s terribly cute.