Skoorb
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This thread has been bubbling away in my head for some time now and finally it felt like time to kick it off.
The catalyst?
Sat at home this morning setting the Sky box to record the City v Palace game on BT Sport when I stumbled across their coverage if the Melbourne City vs Melbourne Victory derby in the A League Down Under. What caught my eye in fact was the colours Melbourne City were playingin - effectively City's Cup Away kit from last season - all white with the sky blue and dark blue vertical stripes (this is their home kit - apparently their application to use Sky Blue was refused due to objections from Sydney FC.....but I digress). They defeated their rivals 1 - 0 ending their local rivals unbeaten start to their season. Yay!
Figured I would give it a go and found myself enjoying the commentary so much more than I have found myself doing when watching or listening to the coverage of our City on pretty much any of the domestic broadcasters. It was balanced, fair and informative and a real breath of fresh air. The commentator and summariser (apologies didn't catch their names) reported what they saw, actually commentated on the action rather than drivelling on and on about some trivial side issue whilst giving NO CLUE as to what was happening on the pitch, they responded with excitement and interest to good play by both sides and with absolutley no sense of bias at any point.
The comparison to what we seem to regularly have to put up with was stark. I find that so many times the commentator or summariser on our domestic broadcasters seem to have an axe to grind, fail to relay a balanced view of the action, are incredibly selective in what they choose to highlight OR choose to ignore and overall just tend to go off on irrelevant tangents for minutes on end generally distracting from what is actually unfolding on the pitch. In essence they seem to add little value even when they are not (IMO) letting their bias get in the way of delivering a fair description of what is going on.
Examples include waxing lyrical when any rag player manages to find a team mate with 40 yard cross field pass but ignoring the same if completed by the opposition (City or not); wetting themselves whenever Rooney scores etc etc or generally adopting different volumes when reporting the same event for different teams. I recall the Manchester derby at OT last season when Dzeko scored in the first minute. No word of a lie I had just sat down in the lounge and was sorting myself out so wasn't watching the screen. Martin Tyler's reaction to that goal was so low key, his delivery so flat that I barely registered that City had scored! Bearing in mind they had scored away at the home of their old rivals and in the first minute it felt as if Tyler couldn't bring himself to believe it. I would wager that had Rooney done same at the other end Tyler would have wet himself.
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This isn't a rant against anti City bias (that could be an entire other thread) but rather a plea for balanced, fair, unbiased, accurate and relevant commentary for every team. They could do well to take a leaf out of their colleagues Down Under IMO.
The catalyst?
Sat at home this morning setting the Sky box to record the City v Palace game on BT Sport when I stumbled across their coverage if the Melbourne City vs Melbourne Victory derby in the A League Down Under. What caught my eye in fact was the colours Melbourne City were playingin - effectively City's Cup Away kit from last season - all white with the sky blue and dark blue vertical stripes (this is their home kit - apparently their application to use Sky Blue was refused due to objections from Sydney FC.....but I digress). They defeated their rivals 1 - 0 ending their local rivals unbeaten start to their season. Yay!
Figured I would give it a go and found myself enjoying the commentary so much more than I have found myself doing when watching or listening to the coverage of our City on pretty much any of the domestic broadcasters. It was balanced, fair and informative and a real breath of fresh air. The commentator and summariser (apologies didn't catch their names) reported what they saw, actually commentated on the action rather than drivelling on and on about some trivial side issue whilst giving NO CLUE as to what was happening on the pitch, they responded with excitement and interest to good play by both sides and with absolutley no sense of bias at any point.
The comparison to what we seem to regularly have to put up with was stark. I find that so many times the commentator or summariser on our domestic broadcasters seem to have an axe to grind, fail to relay a balanced view of the action, are incredibly selective in what they choose to highlight OR choose to ignore and overall just tend to go off on irrelevant tangents for minutes on end generally distracting from what is actually unfolding on the pitch. In essence they seem to add little value even when they are not (IMO) letting their bias get in the way of delivering a fair description of what is going on.
Examples include waxing lyrical when any rag player manages to find a team mate with 40 yard cross field pass but ignoring the same if completed by the opposition (City or not); wetting themselves whenever Rooney scores etc etc or generally adopting different volumes when reporting the same event for different teams. I recall the Manchester derby at OT last season when Dzeko scored in the first minute. No word of a lie I had just sat down in the lounge and was sorting myself out so wasn't watching the screen. Martin Tyler's reaction to that goal was so low key, his delivery so flat that I barely registered that City had scored! Bearing in mind they had scored away at the home of their old rivals and in the first minute it felt as if Tyler couldn't bring himself to believe it. I would wager that had Rooney done same at the other end Tyler would have wet himself.
:111:
This isn't a rant against anti City bias (that could be an entire other thread) but rather a plea for balanced, fair, unbiased, accurate and relevant commentary for every team. They could do well to take a leaf out of their colleagues Down Under IMO.
